• Health communication · Dec 2011

    Public information officers' perceived control in building local public health agendas and the impact of community size.

    • Elizabeth Johnson Avery and Ruthann Weaver Lariscy.
    • School of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 37996-0343, USA. ejavery@utk.edu
    • Health Commun. 2011 Dec 1; 26 (8): 691-700.

    AbstractUsing data collected from 280 local public health information officers (PIOs) serving community sizes from rural to urban across the United States, this study examines issues of local autonomy or lack thereof in establishing local health agendas. It specifically addresses how size of community as well as state and federal agencies' agendas affect public health promotion at the local level. Findings reveal low levels of perceived local departmental control in building public health agendas among rural PIOs. Alternatively, urban PIOs report low levels of both perceived state and federal departmental control yet higher levels of local departmental control compared to counterparts in other sized locales. Implications and importance of findings are discussed.

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