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services. The Committee included representatives of the U.S. Public Health Service
agencies, American Public Health Association, Association of Schools of Public Health,
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Environmental Council of the
States, National Association of County and City Health Officials, National Association of
State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors, National Association of State Mental Health
Program Directors, and Public Health Foundation.

iv See also Healthy People 2010, Chapter 23 for its definition of the public health
infrastructure. "In public health, a strong infrastructure provides the capacity to prepare
for and respond to both acute and chronic threats to the Nation’s health, whether they are
bioterrorism attacks, emerging infections, disparities in health status, or increases in
chronic disease and injury rates. Such an infrastructure serves as the foundation for
planning, delivering, and evaluating public health. The public health infrastructure
comprises the workforce, data and information systems, and public health organizations.
Research also is a key activity of public health infrastructure in identifying opportunities
to improve health, strengthen information systems and organizations, and make more
effective and efficient use of resources."

v Public Health Functions Steering Committee, "Public Health in America," Fall 1994,
www.health.gov/phfunctions/public.htm accessed May 3, 2003.

vi It has been argued that a critical analysis of historical events may serve to …"make the
Republic more responsive and responsible to the interests of its citizenry." A point that
Moe makes in the introduction to his analysis of reorganization and management studies
of the executive branch immediately following his assertion on page six that, "Informing
this analysis is the hope that by understanding more about the past, Congress will be
better able to understand the options available to it in the future."

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James G. March and Johan P. Olson. "Organizing Political Life: What Administrative

Reorganization Tells Us About Government," The American Political Science Review,
Vol. 77, Issue 2, (Jun., 1983), 281-296.

ix Paul L. Posner. "Evolving Models of the Policymaking Process fro Our Federal
System," in The Politics of Unfunded Mandates: Whither Federalism?, Georgetown
University Press, Washington, D.C., 1998. pp. 20-35.
x Timothy Conlan, From New Federalism to Devolution, Brookings Institution Press,
Wash D.C., 1998, pp. 14-15.
xi Bowman, Ann O'M. and Richard C. Kearney. Dimensions of State Government
Capability. The Western Political Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 2 (Jun., 1988), 341-362.
xii Paul L. Posner, The Politics of Unfunded Mandates: Whither Federalism?,
Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 1998. Citing Lester Salaman, ed.
Beyond Privatization: The Tools of Government Action, (Washington, D.C.: Urban
Institutive Press, 1989), pp.3-22.