The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The GLSEN National School Climate Survey is a flagship report on the school experiences of LGBTQ youth in schools, including the...
Nov 26, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) Prevalence Survey...
Nov 06, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is seeking information from environmental health professionals to identify best...
Nov 06, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO released the 2018 Forces of Change report highlighting new findings on the forces that are affecting the nation’s local health...
Nov 02, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Ana Rappold, Mary Clare Hano, Steven Prince and Ann Brown, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Hospitals, clinics, and...
Oct 30, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) released an article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on adults’...
Oct 22, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The results of the 2017 National Immunization Survey-Child (NIS-Child) and vaccination coverage and exemption rates among children in...
Oct 12, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Capacity for Health, a national project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide free training and capacity...
Oct 05, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the results of the 2017 National Immunization Survey-Teen, which showed the...
Aug 23, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The GLSEN National School Climate Survey is a flagship report on the school experiences of LGBTQ youth in schools, including the extent of the challenges that they face at school and the school-based resources that support LGBTQ students’ well-being. The survey has consistently indicated that specific school-based supports are related to a safer and more […]
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) Prevalence Survey (2015), a multi-state survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine providing an updated national estimate of HAIs in U.S. hospitals. Results show patients were 16% less likely to have an HAI in 2015 than they were in […]
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is seeking information from environmental health professionals to identify best practices in developing a model Legionella program. If you are part of an organization or health department that has an existing Legionella program in place or has an interest in developing one, please participate in a survey to aid […]
NACCHO released the 2018 Forces of Change report highlighting new findings on the forces that are affecting the nation’s local health departments (LHDs). Results show that although the economic situation is slowly improving for many LHDs, workforce capacity challenges persist. One-third of LHDs reported experiencing job losses in 2017. LHDs also faced with challenges associated […]
By Ana Rappold, Mary Clare Hano, Steven Prince and Ann Brown, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Hospitals, clinics, and public health organizations in wildfire-prone areas of the West and Southwest are seeing firsthand the impacts of wildfire season on public health. As these fires become larger, more frequent, and more intense—leaving smoke-filled skies for days, […]
The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) released an article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on adults’ use of personal hearing protection devices at loud athletic or entertainment events. The report found that approximately 8% of the surveyed adults reported consistent use of a hearing protection device (HPD) at loud athletic or entertainment […]
The results of the 2017 National Immunization Survey-Child (NIS-Child) and vaccination coverage and exemption rates among children in kindergarten 2017–18 school year are now available. ChildVaxView and SchoolVaxView have been updated to include the latest data. Vaccination Coverage for Selected Vaccines and Exemption Rates Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2017–18 School Year...
Capacity for Health, a national project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide free training and capacity building to organizations involved in HIV prevention services, with support from the Urban Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention Services (UCHAPS), is offering a FREE two-day training for new and potential HIV prevention program managers. This […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the results of the 2017 National Immunization Survey-Teen, which showed the number of adolescents who are up to date on HPV vaccination – meaning they started and completed the HPV vaccine series – increased five percentage points from 2016 to 2017. In 2017, roughly half (49 percent) […]
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