The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) held its 64th annual meeting in Jackson, Mississippi on July 8-9, which included...
Jul 16, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
In 2011, Sepsis Alliance designated September as Sepsis Awareness Month. Over the last eight years, this health observance has...
Jul 08, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO released two new Health in All Policies (HiAP) success stories: Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC): The goal of BHPC’s...
Jul 07, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
truth® is a national tobacco prevention counter-marketing campaign that speaks to youth and young adults on their terms, through the...
The Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) established Children’s Environmental Health Day in 2016 as a way to...
Jun 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO released a Health in All Policies (HiAP) success story from the Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County...
Jun 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
In honor of Hepatitis Awareness Month, NASTAD released three new success stories featuring health department responses to the...
Jun 04, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) is pleased to announce a second competition round of Lead Poisoning Prevention...
May 14, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
As has been repeated throughout STD Awareness Month, the rates of the three reportable STDs (syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia) are...
Apr 30, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) held its 64th annual meeting in Jackson, Mississippi on July 8-9, which included a panel presentation on “Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America.” During the meeting, Brett Giroir, MD, ADM, Assistant Secretary for Health for the Department of Health and Human Services, announced that his office […]
In 2011, Sepsis Alliance designated September as Sepsis Awareness Month. Over the last eight years, this health observance has increased sepsis awareness in the United States from 42% to 65%. Despite these great strides, sepsis remains a public health crisis, taking a life every two minutes. Sepsis takes more lives than opioid overdoses, breast cancer, and prostate […]
NACCHO released two new Health in All Policies (HiAP) success stories: Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC): The goal of BHPC’s Health Equity in All Policies initiative, led by the BPHC Office of Health Equity, is to better equip city departments to address racial justice and health equity issues within their sectors. Florida Department of Health in […]
truth® is a national tobacco prevention counter-marketing campaign that speaks to youth and young adults on their terms, through the channels they understand and trust. truth delivers the facts about the health effects and social consequences of tobacco and the marketing tactics of the tobacco industry so that youth and young adults can make informed […]
The Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) established Children’s Environmental Health Day in 2016 as a way to raise awareness about how environmental exposures impact children’s health. It is also a day of action that can be used to mobilize individuals, families, organizations, and communities to champion, on behalf of all children, the right to clean […]
NACCHO released a Health in All Policies (HiAP) success story from the Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County (DOH-Hillsborough). The goals of DOH-Hillsborough are to increase local awareness of what creates health and to use a HiAP approach to improve community livability and the regional economy. Read more.
In honor of Hepatitis Awareness Month, NASTAD released three new success stories featuring health department responses to the hepatitis A outbreak and highlighting the work that has taken place in Indiana, Michigan, and Utah. The Success Stories highlight the need for multi-stakeholder engagement and working with partners such as syringe service providers, community-based organizations, and...
The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) is pleased to announce a second competition round of Lead Poisoning Prevention Catalytic Grant Awards. GHHI’s goal is to grow and strengthen the network of organizations dedicated to advancing the National Lead Campaign to end childhood lead poisoning nationwide. GHHI is making catalytic grant investments in organizations in […]
As has been repeated throughout STD Awareness Month, the rates of the three reportable STDs (syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia) are on the rise. And that includes rates of congenital syphilis—spread from a pregnant person to their fetus—which have more than doubled in the last four years to 918 reported cases in the most recent data […]
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