Case Study Library

Public Health Law and Policy

• Quarantine and Isolation: Public Health Leadership’s Challenge When Enforcement is Necessary (2007-08)
• Healthcare Disparity in an Inner City Neighborhood (2000-01)
• A Case Study Addressing the Roles of Local and State Government in a Restaurant and Lodging Inspection Program (1996-97)
• Fantasia Healthwise (Medicaid Primary Care Case Management System) (1995-96)
• Reassignment of Childcare Licensing Authority (1994-95)
• County Health Department Development of an Individual Sewage Disposal System Ordinance (1994-95)
• Lead Poisoning Prevention: Enactment of a Public Health City Ordinance (1993-94)
• Coordination of Funding Distribution of Ryan White CARE Act Title I and Title II in a Metropolitan Area (1993-94)
• The Case of Discrimination (1992-93)

Tobacco

• Public Health Response to a New Threat in Indiana: Dissolvable Tobacco (2009-10)
• BootIt:Second Hand Smoke Policies in Casinos (2007-08)
• Systems Thinking: Up in Smoke (Secondhand Smoke Policy) (2006-07)
• Who Cares About the Air? (Health Impacts of Secondhand Smoke) (2005-06)
• Health Problems of Smoking, Lead and Pregnancy (2005-06)
• Master Tobacco Settlement: A Three State Comparison of the Allocation of Funds (2001-02)
• Oaktown Tobacco Ordinance (1996-97)
• Pinpan County’s Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use in Adolescents (1992-93)

Infectious Disease/Epidemiology

• Acute Hepatitis C Outbreak in Nevada (2008-09)
• Corn County Sex Survey: There’s More Than Corn Husking Going on in Hoosierville (2007-08)
• Sex is Taboo: A Case Study in Policy Development (2007-08)
• MRSA Lurks at Loon Lagoon (2007-08)
• Everybody Was Bird Flu Fighting (2007-08)
• Lumps in the System: A Mumps Outbreak Story (2006-07)
• Pertussis: A Big A$$ Cluster (2004-05)
• “If I Die You Will Eat Me”: Public Health Challenges Related to a Hmong Refugee TB Case (2004-05)
• Addressing the TB Crisis Among African Americans in the city of Poohville (2004-05)
• Lessons Learned from Baby Doe (Bacterial Meningitis) (2004-05)
• Am I Really Blue? (HIV/AIDS in Minority Communities) (2004-05)
• A Nosocomial Outbreak in Raid County (2003-04)
• When Zoonotic Disease O’Curd in Wisconsin, It Was Nothing to Monkey Around With: Public Health Responds to an Emerging Infectious Disease (2003-04)
• Monkey on Our Backs: Identifying and Containing an Outbreak of Monkey Pox on a Regional Basis (2003-04)
• Addressing Outbreaks of Foreign Infectious Disease: It’s No Monkey Business (2003-04)
• Meddling with the System: An Unexpected Migrating Virus (2002-03)
• Syphilis Outbreak in Brahma County (2001-02)
• TB Outbreak in Tuburque County (2001-02)
• Shanker Heights Responds to a Resurgence of Syphilis (2001-02)
• I’ve Got TB (2000-01)
• Asthma: Taking Our Breath Away (2000-01)
• Asthma in Illinois (2000-01)
• Measles Outbreak in Speckle County (1999-00)
• HIV/AIDS Cluster in East St. Bernard (1998-99)
• E. Coli Outbreak in Whiteland and Redland Counties (1998-99)
• The Public Health Response to Non-Compliance in HIV Carriers (1997-98)
• Respiratory Outbreak at a Long Term Care Facility (1997-98)
• Legionnaires Incident Case Study (1994-95)
• Administration of Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs in a Multi-Agency Facility (1994-95)
• AIDS/HIV and Healthworker/Patient Notification (1992-93)

Environmental Health

• Community Lead Prevention Task Force (2008-09)
• Failing Francis: A Public Health Response to Unfit Housing (2008-09)
• Community and Iteragency Deficits: An Unflushable Dilemma (2007-08)
• Crisis in Pooville/Onsite Wastewater (2007-08)
• The Flood (Environmental Health Impact of Urban Flooding) (2006-07)
• Hepatitis A: A Public/Private Call to Action (2005-06)
• A Community-Based Approach to Reduce the Use and the Hazards Caused by Illegal Methamphetamine Laboratories (2005-06)
• A Public Health Response to Pixie Dust Disease in a Food Handler in Lee County (Foodborne illness investigation protocol) (2004-05)
• Sam and Ella’s Scare of 2002 in Orange Crush County (Salmonella Outbreak) (2003-04)
• Lake Buena Vista Leptospirosis Outbreak (2001-02)
• Where in the State of Bliss is the Foodborne Illness Outbreak Manual? (1999-00)
• Take the Lead on Lead (1999-00)
• The Beast in the Belly at Busterville Health Department (Cyclospora Foodborne Outbreak) (1998-99)
• The Case of Senior Citizen Socialites (E. Coli) (1998-99)
• Communicating Risk and Preventing Exposure When a Drinking Water Supply is Contaminated (1997-98)
• Food Safety Information for School Children (1997-98)
• Behind Closed Doors: A Case Study in Human Health Hazards (1997-98)
• E Coli Outbreak at a Public Swimming Beach (1995-96)
• A Case Study on Fees in Retail Food Sanitation Program (1993-94)
• Childhood Lead Poisoning in Onionville (1992-93)

Public Health Nursing/Community Health

• Facing the Long Shot: Out of Vaccine, Out of Time (2006-07)
• Two Names/Two Countries/Broken Policies (Diversity in Healthcare) (2005-06)
• STDs in Schools: What They Kept From You (2005-06)
• Wonkaville Weighs In: Calories Count Coalition (2003-04)
• Chronic Disease Management Program (2003-04)
• Community Sedentary: Fit4Life (2003-04)
• Who Calls the Shots? (Vaccine shortage) (2000-01)
• Varicella Vaccine: To Innoculate or Not? (2000-01)
• Domestic Violence: What is the Role of the Local Health Department? (2000-01)
• Expanded Child Health Insurance: Is It Working? (1999-00)
• Wellinois County Termination of Family Planning Services (1998-99)
• School-Based Health Care (1998-99)
• Pre-Natal Data Collection (1998-99)
• The Role of School-Based Clinics in the Assurance of Adolescent Health (1995-96)
• Assurance of Comprehensive Prenatal Services in a Rural Community (1995-96)
• The Development of the Healthy Moms/Healthy Kids Program in Illinois (1994-95)
• The Establishment of a Supervised Living Group Home for Mentally Ill Adults (1994-95)
• Immunization in a County Health Department Well Child Clinic (1993-94)

Public Health Systems

• Faith Based Entity Providing Public Health Services (2009-10)
• Argument for Making and Economic Investment in our Public Health System (2008-09)
• Community Dental Health Access Initiative (2008-09)
• Central County Participates in Public Health Assessment and Quality Improvement Project (2007-08)
• Weaving Community Connectedness (2007-08)
• Development of the Quebec Public Health Program (2002-03)
• Teaching Leadership with McHenry County (2001-02)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Health Services Assessment) (2001-02)
• Integrating Services in a Newly Formed Local Health Department (1997-98)
• Building on Context: Collaborations for Health Assurance (1996-97)
• Improving the Public Health System (1992-93)

Mental Health/Public Health

• A Community Unites to Provide Mental Health Services (2009-10)
• Underage Drinking and Social Hosting (2008-09)
• Orange Kiss of Affection: The Other Face of Domestic Violence (2006-07)
• Legal But Deadly: Abuse of OTC and Prescription Drugs Among Teens (2005-06)
• Response to Binge Drinking Policy and Enforcement (2004-05)
• Suicide of Revered Former Mayor in Pleasantville Triggers Assessment of Suicide Prevention Policies (2004-05)
• Code Red: A Public Health Approach to School Gun Violence (2003-04)
• The Christmas Massacre (PTSD) (2002-03)
• Post-Partum Depression (2001-02)
• Adult Suicide Rate Increases in Kong County (1999-00)
• Suicide Rates and Firearms in Winchester County (1999-00)
• Adolescent Suicide: A Public Health Issue (1998-99)
• Racism: a Mental Health Issue (1996-97)

Bioterrorism/Emergency Response

• Utilizing School-Based Clinics to Provide H1N1 Vaccine to Children (2009-10)
• Preventing Widespread Flu in Badgerland (2009-10)
• A Tale of Two Floods: Multi-Sector Cooperation to Emergency Preparedness and Response in Illinois and Czech Republic (2009-10)
• Preparing for the Midwest Marathon (2007-08)
• Arkansas Department of Health: Responding to the Health Needs of Katrina Evacuees (2006-07)
• Pandemic Influenza and Policy Development (2005-06)
• Shelter From the Storm: The Interface Between Local Public Health and the Red Cross in Emergency Shelter Operations in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (2005-06)
• Breaking News: When a Leak and the Media Highlight the Chasms in Public Health Communication (2005-06)
• Trauma in a Toxic Town (HazMat Train Derailment) (2004-05)
• Shifting Gears: From Everyday Provision of Public Health Services to Mass Vaccinations (2002-03)
• Impetuous Planning: Creating a Regional Pre-Event Smallpox Vaccination Plan in Two Weeks (2002-03)
• Building Surge Capacity in Response to a Smallpox Outbreak (2002-03)
• Pustules Proliferate in Dairyair County: A Local Public Health Response to a Smallpox Outbreak (2002-03)
• Pandemic Planning in Paine County (2001-02)
• A Haze Over Hickernoodle City: Biodefense Readiness in a Community (2001-02)
• Suspected Bioterrorism: An E. Coli Outbreak (1999-00)
• Biological Terrorism Preparedness in Bison County, N.D. (1999-00)
• Biological Terrorism: Are We Ready? (1999-00)
• The Great Flu Pandemic of 2000 (1999-00)
• Tallagoogoo: A Foodborne Illness Investigation During a Natural Disaster (1998-99)
• Emergency Response of Public Health to a Train Derailment and Evacuation (1998-99)