The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Today CDC released the 2016-2018 NIS-Child report and the 2018-19 kindergarten vaccination coverage report. The reports are published...
Oct 17, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
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 theme for this year’s World Environmental Health Day, celebrated on Sept. 26, calls for unified action among the global...
Sep 26, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
In the fall of 2018, the residents of the United Kingdom’s northern city of Grimsby could have been forgiven for choking on their...
Sep 16, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
CDC released results from the 2018 National Immunization Survey-Teen (NIS-Teen) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which...
Sep 12, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
A survey of healthcare providers reveals several different strategies to minimize measles virus exposures in outpatient healthcare...
Sep 12, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
In an effort to deliver even more value to our members, NACCHO has created affinity partnerships with two companies — LiveStories and...
Sep 03, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Federal and state tests have found dangerous toxins, common in outbreaks of blue-green algae, in hundreds of lakes, rivers and other...
Aug 08, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Much of the day-to-day work of opioid prevention and response falls to local health departments. To better understand this critical...
Aug 07, 2019 | Andrea Grenadier
Today CDC released the 2016-2018 NIS-Child report and the 2018-19 kindergarten vaccination coverage report. The reports are published online at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/. Interactive state level and trend data are available online at https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vaxview/. CDC’s priority messages include: The US has already had 22 measles outbreaks in 2019, and most cases were among people who...
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 theme for this year’s World Environmental Health Day, celebrated on Sept. 26, calls for unified action among the global environmental health community to tackle climate change.
In the fall of 2018, the residents of the United Kingdom’s northern city of Grimsby could have been forgiven for choking on their breakfast cereal when they saw in the news that their High Street (UK equivalent of a Main Street), was named by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), as the UK’s unhealthiest.
CDC released results from the 2018 National Immunization Survey-Teen (NIS-Teen) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which provides the latest estimates of vaccination rates among adolescents in the United States.
A survey of healthcare providers reveals several different strategies to minimize measles virus exposures in outpatient healthcare facilities. New York City has experienced the largest measles outbreak in the United States since 1992.
In an effort to deliver even more value to our members, NACCHO has created affinity partnerships with two companies — LiveStories and Academy of Science — that can help local health departments (LHDs) and public health professionals strengthen their data collection and analysis and gain better insight into their community health needs and outcomes.
Federal and state tests have found dangerous toxins, common in outbreaks of blue-green algae, in hundreds of lakes, rivers and other bodies of water nationwide – yet authorities are doing little to notify and protect Americans, according to a new analysis and map from the Environmental Working Group. Algae blooms often are triggered by agricultural chemicals […]
Much of the day-to-day work of opioid prevention and response falls to local health departments. To better understand this critical role, NACCHO staff conducted a survey and are releasing a new report, “Local Health Department Approaches to Opioid Use Prevention and Response: An Environmental Scan.” The scan surveyed 198 local health departments in efforts to […]
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