Community Health

Adolescent Health | Birth Defects | Chronic Disease

NACCHO helps local health departments (LHDs) to promote health and prevent disease in their communities by providing resources, technical assistance, and tools that support community health programs and services.

Proposal Writing Basics: How to Effectively Respond to Proposal Requests

Live Interactive Tutorial Series

NACCHO and the CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) will host a three-part series on proposal writing in April and May 2008. These live interactive online tutorials will provide the essential elements for creating strong, data-driven, proposals. Tutorial topics include developing logic models, writing SMART goals and objectives, and writing a Statement of Need. More »

NACCHO's Terrorism Injury Information Dissemination & Exchange (TIIDE) Site

This site features Terrorism Injury related news and resources, as well as information on NACCHO's TIIDE demonstration sites. More »

Coalition University

The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the Maryland Partnership for Prevention (MPP) are pleased to offer two-day training workshops for public health practitioners interested in coalition building.

Applications due April 11, 2008. More >>

Workshop on Ethics in Public Health Practice & Preparedness

This archived workshop features presentations by public health practitioners, local and state health department officials, and researchers from Georgetown University, the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins University.

Topics discussed include the following:

Ethics, Social Justice, & Public Health Practice
How Public Health Practitioners Identify & Resolve Ethical Challenges
Ethics & Emergency Preparedness
Ethics & Public Health Education Curricula

NACCHO Launches Community Health Webcasts and Teleconference Site

This site lists upcoming and archived webcasts and teleconferences from all of NACCHO's Community Health projects. More »

NACCHO's HPV and Cervical Cancer Site

Learn more about HPV, the HPV vaccines, cervical cancer, and important resources for LHDs. More »

Call for Manuscripts: "Local Acts" Column in Public Health Reports

Public Health Reports is a 128-year-old journal devoted to public health. Public Health Reports publishes articles on research, practice, and viewpoint essays. Beginning in 2007, Public Health Reports in collaboration with NACCHO will publish a peer-reviewed column featuring innovation in local public health. More »

Spotlight: Guide to Community Preventive Services

A useful tool for LHDs, the guide summarizes what is known about the effectiveness, economic efficiency, and feasibility of interventions to promote community health and prevent disease. More »

PRESS RELEASE: Study Provides Road Map To Preventive Services

A study recently released by Partnership for Prevention, Chronic Disease Prevention Action Planning Handbook, identifies the most beneficial and cost-effective preventive health services, giving Americans a unique tool to make decisions about their healthcare. More »

Community Health Report RELEASE:

Community Health Report 2006

PROGRAMS INCLUDE

»	Adolescent Health
	Works to support LHDs in addressing adolescent mortality and morbidity and enhancing LHDs' ability to identify and address adolescents' needs in their communities

»	Birth Defects & Developmental Disabilities
	Disseminates information and assesses LHDs' needs and concerns related to birth defects and developmental disabilities.

»	Chronic Disease Prevention
	Focuses on nutrition and physical activity as means to prevent chronic disease.

»	Community Design (Land Use Planning)
	Emphasizes the integration of public health considerations into land use planning via its Land Use Planning Project.

»	Healthy People 2010
	Participates in the development and monitoring of the objectives for this initiative.

»	HIV and STI Prevention
	Enhances the capacity of LHDs to partner with schools on HIV-prevention education and to strengthen schools' HIV-prevention programs.

»	Immunization
	Works to strengthen LHDs' immunization infrastructure and address critical issues such as vaccine safety, supply, financing, and preventable diseases.

»	Injury Prevention
	Provides injury prevention education and resources to LHDs.

»	Maternal & Child Health (MCH)
	Offers programs that ensure and assess women's and children's health and develops policies to improve their health.

»	Mental Health
	Aims to connect mental health education, prevention, and treatment to public health.

»	Primary Care
	Addresses issues related to access to care, health inequities, community health centers, and strategic service delivery decision-making.

»	Rural Health
	Serves rural LHDs across the nation in an effort to understand and enhance the public health infrastructure in rural communities.

»	Tobacco Prevention & Control
	Provides LHDs with tobacco cessation tools, best practices, policy development, and dissemination resources.

»	Traffic Safety
	Supports LHDs' efforts to reduce deaths caused by motor vehicle crashes and identifies traffic-safety-related public health interventions.