The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Antibiotic Stewardship has launched the second of a four-section...
Jul 25, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
It’s been nearly two years since NACCHO’s multi-article supplement, “Public Health Informatics: A Call to...
Jul 19, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine has released a new study which shows that healthcare professionals...
Jul 17, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on June 29th that the multistate outbreak of E. coli infections linked...
Jun 29, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a persistent and growing threat to the health of communities. To meet this threat head-on,...
Jun 13, 2018 | Christina Baum
Antibiotics save millions of lives. Infectious bacterial diseases that were once deadly are now treatable with antibiotics....
May 24, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
This resource page from George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health details the effects of overuse...
Apr 09, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Health departments working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Lab...
Apr 06, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) published...
Mar 23, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Antibiotic Stewardship has launched the second of a four-section web-based training course on Antibiotic Stewardship, each section of which will be released in 2018. This section is comprised of four modules that will cover: What we know about outpatient antibiotic use in the United States Cases […]
It’s been nearly two years since NACCHO’s multi-article supplement, “Public Health Informatics: A Call to Action,” was featured in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Since then, it’s only become clearer that to effectively serve communities in today’s information-driven world, public health – and its cross-sector partners – must advance...
The Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine has released a new study which shows that healthcare professionals in all outpatient settings unnecessarily prescribed antibiotics for respiratory illnesses like the common cold and bronchitis. According to the study, antibiotics were prescribed unnecessarily in 46% of urgent care center visits, 25% of emergency department visits,...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on June 29th that the multistate outbreak of E. coli infections linked to romaine lettuce was over, but federal food safety agencies continue to investigate its cause. CDC laboratory testing recently identified the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 in canal water samples taken from the […]
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a persistent and growing threat to the health of communities. To meet this threat head-on, more local health departments (LHDs) are building their capacity for HAI prevention and response. Enhancing LHD capacity can involve a wide variety of activities such as conducting exercises that test response plans, strengthening connections with healthcare...
Antibiotics save millions of lives. Infectious bacterial diseases that were once deadly are now treatable with antibiotics. Unfortunately, 30 percent of antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary and potentially dangerous. Antibiotics can cause side-effects ranging from mild to severe. Antibiotic resistance is a serious public health issue. Each year around two million illnesses and 23,000 deaths...
This resource page from George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health details the effects of overuse of antibiotics in food animal production, and how to protect against exposure to harmful bacteria on meat and poultry products. The page also includes a video with Dr. Lance Price, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center, as […]
Health departments working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Lab Network found more than 220 instances of germs with “unusual” antibiotic resistance genes in the United States last year, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report. Germs with “unusual resistance” are resistant to all or most antibiotics tested, making...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) published a brochure to highlight some of the work NCEZID and their partners carried out in 2017. The brochure features stories on a range of topics, including combating antibiotic resistance (p. 4-5), responding to vector-borne diseases (p. 6-7), […]
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