The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Opioid use disorder (OUD) and infectious diseases are intertwined epidemics. In the 1980s, it was realized that human immunodeficiency...
Jan 28, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
A recent issue of the Journal of Environmental Health includes an article from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with...
Jan 23, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
Discover the main barriers preventing local jurisdictions from updating their pool codes in a new report from NACCHO. Local public...
Dec 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new report last week detailing HIV-related outcomes as well as...
Dec 17, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The years between 2005-2018 witnessed a dramatic rise in “natural” gas (methane) production in the United States, driven by the use of...
Dec 09, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published a new HIV Surveillance Report, “Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the...
Nov 27, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2018 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI)...
Nov 06, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
On October 8, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Surveillance...
Oct 08, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its public health partners in all 50 states are tracking and classifying...
Aug 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Opioid use disorder (OUD) and infectious diseases are intertwined epidemics. In the 1980s, it was realized that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) could be transmitted via injection drug use. Today, infectious diseases related to opioid use disorder include HIV and hepatitis A, B, and C viruses, as well as bacterial, fungal, and other infections. To reduce […]
A recent issue of the Journal of Environmental Health includes an article from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with suggestions for effectively communicating environmental health messages. The authors recommends putting your main message first, supporting it visually, and keeping your audience in mind. The article also includes links to relevant tools and resources. Read the...
Discover the main barriers preventing local jurisdictions from updating their pool codes in a new report from NACCHO. Local public health agencies work hard to reduce the risk for outbreaks, drowning, and pool chemical-related injuries in their communities. NACCHO examined the regulatory successes and challenges these agencies encounter. Through key informant interviews, respondents shared the...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new report last week detailing HIV-related outcomes as well as demographic and socioeconomic factors among clients served by Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) recipients. In 2018, approximately 534,000 – over half of people with diagnosed HIV in the United States – received services through RWHAP, and […]
The years between 2005-2018 witnessed a dramatic rise in “natural” gas (methane) production in the United States, driven by the use of horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, an extraction process that injects highly pressurized water and chemicals underground to fracture rock formations. Once fracked, the gas is typically transported and distributed domestically through a vast […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published a new HIV Surveillance Report, “Diagnoses of HIV Infection in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2018.” The new report summarizes information about diagnosed HIV infection in the United States and dependent areas. To accompany the new surveillance report, CDC has also published an infographic […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2018 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Progress Report, a snapshot of how each state and the country are doing in eliminating HAIs, showing significant progress nationally in reducing several hospital-acquired infections and highlighting that prevention of these infections is possible. Using data from CDC’s...
On October 8, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Surveillance Report, 2018. Devastatingly, rates of reportable STDs, syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea, surged for the fifth year in a row.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its public health partners in all 50 states are tracking and classifying foodborne illness in a new way, using advanced technology called whole genome sequencing (WGS) to detect and stop outbreaks and combat drug-resistant bacteria. PulseNet, the national network of laboratories that detects outbreaks of foodborne […]
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