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Doctor or administrator? City to vote on Duval County health director


The Jacksonville City Council will consider a measure Tuesday intended to help fill the top post at the Duval County Health Department, which has been vacant since 2018.
The hiring difficulty stems from a city ordinance that requires the department director to not just have public health training but to be a physician, the only such mandate in the state, according to Stephanie Burch, the city deputy chief administrative officer. 
The proposed legislation calls for the director to be a county health officer who is either a physician trained in public health administration or a public health professional with a master’s degree in public health or other health sciences, or with a master’s degree and extensive public health experience. ....

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Chinese immigrants face


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IMAGE: Su-I Hou is a professor and interim chair of the University of Central Florida s Health Management & Informatics Department.
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Language difficulties and cultural barriers keep an alarming number of Chinese Americans from asking for cancer screenings that may protect their health, according to a new University of Central Florida study.
Su-I Hou, professor and interim chair of UCF s Health Management & Informatics Department, said her results show that physicians and members of the Chinese community need to improve their communication about the importance of cancer screenings. Her study was recently published in the ....

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