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Environmental Health and Accreditation in Indian River County, FL
By Julianne Price, Environmental Health Coordinator, Florida Department of Health in Indian River County Environmental health...
Sep 15, 2015 | Katie Regan
Step It Up! Surgeon General Announces Walking and Walkable Communities Promotion
Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities recognizes the importance of physical...
Sep 10, 2015 | Bridget Kerner
NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and...
NACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources,...
Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
Attention All DIS! Apply to Win a Full Scholarship to NCSD’s Annual Meeting
The National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and NACCHO are sponsoring six full scholarships for interested DIS to attend the NCSD...
Sep 09, 2015 | Kate Drezner
Large Study of PrEP Use in Clinical Practice Shows No New HIV Infections
In one of the first and largest published evaluations of the use of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection in a...
Sep 03, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
Act Against AIDS Launches First Disease-Specific CDC Instagram Account
CDC recently launched its Act Against AIDS (AAA) Instagram account. Started in 2009, AAA focuses on raising awareness of HIV among all...
Sep 01, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas
Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2014-15 School...
On August 28, CDC released the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report article, “Vaccination Coverage Among Children in...
Sep 01, 2015 | Kate Drezner
Medscape Vaccine Acceptance Report: Where Do We Stand?
A new Medscape report was released on the state of vaccine acceptance since the 2015 Measles outbreak. See “Vaccine Acceptance...
Sep 01, 2015 | Kate Drezner
New Fact Sheet Examines Role of Environmental Health in Public Health Accreditation
The Public Health Accreditation Board’s (PHAB’s) national voluntary accreditation program advances the quality and...
Sep 01, 2015 | Katie Regan
Environmental Health and Accreditation in Indian River County, FLBy Julianne Price, Environmental Health Coordinator, Florida Department of Health in Indian River County Environmental health professionals who don’t have a seat at their local table for accreditation efforts should pull up a chair and join the group. For many years, the environmental health profession has held fast to the roots of enforcement and regulation. […] Sep 15, 2015 | Katie Regan |
Step It Up! Surgeon General Announces Walking and Walkable Communities PromotionStep It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities recognizes the importance of physical activity for people of all ages and abilities. It calls on Americans to be more physically active through walking and calls on the nation to better support walking and walkability. Improving walkability means that communities […] Sep 10, 2015 | Bridget Kerner |
NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and Promising PracticesNACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources, administrative practices, or tools that demonstrate exemplary and replicable qualities in response to a local public health need. A model practice meets the following criteria: local health department role, collaboration, innovation, responsiveness, and evaluation of both the... Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
Attention All DIS! Apply to Win a Full Scholarship to NCSD’s Annual MeetingThe National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) and NACCHO are sponsoring six full scholarships for interested DIS to attend the NCSD Annual Meeting October 27-30 in Savannah, GA. The meeting will prove to be an excellent opportunity for DIS to gain knowledge and skills around STD prevention as it relates to sexual health. The agenda […] Sep 09, 2015 | Kate Drezner |
Large Study of PrEP Use in Clinical Practice Shows No New HIV InfectionsIn one of the first and largest published evaluations of the use of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection in a clinical practice setting, researchers at Kaiser Permanente found no new HIV infections among patients during more than 2.5 years of observation. The study was the first done outside of clinical trials and demonstration […] Sep 03, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Act Against AIDS Launches First Disease-Specific CDC Instagram AccountCDC recently launched its Act Against AIDS (AAA) Instagram account. Started in 2009, AAA focuses on raising awareness of HIV among all Americans and reducing the risk of infection among the hardest-hit populations. The AAA account is the second Instagram account at CDC and is the only disease-specific account in the agency. The AAA Instagram account […] Sep 01, 2015 | Alyssa Kitlas |
Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2014-15 School YearOn August 28, CDC released the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report article, “Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten-United States, 2014-15 School Year.” This report describes vaccination coverage from 49 states and DC and vaccination exemption levels from 46 states and DC for children enrolled in kindergarten during the 2014–15 school year, as reported by federally... Sep 01, 2015 | Kate Drezner |
Medscape Vaccine Acceptance Report: Where Do We Stand?A new Medscape report was released on the state of vaccine acceptance since the 2015 Measles outbreak. See “Vaccine Acceptance Report: Where Do We Stand?” for more information. Sep 01, 2015 | Kate Drezner |
New Fact Sheet Examines Role of Environmental Health in Public Health AccreditationThe Public Health Accreditation Board’s (PHAB’s) national voluntary accreditation program advances the quality and performance of public health departments. The accreditation program measures health department performance against nationally recognized, practice-focused, and evidence-based standards. It documents the capacity of health departments to deliver the three core functions of... Sep 01, 2015 | Katie Regan |
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