The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Is it a random uptick in death and disease or is it a trend? This question haunts disease surveillance experts in state and local...
May 02, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
On April 29, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an MMWR article about the increase in measles cases...
Apr 30, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the final report for the One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization...
Apr 25, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Last week, global media company Great Big Story released a four-minute short film, The Disease Detectives Stop Outbreaks at Their...
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar issued the following statement regarding the current measles outbreaks around the United...
Apr 25, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
Historic rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) indicate that something about our response isn’t working. In fact, maybe even...
Apr 23, 2019 | Samantha Ritter
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released state HIV prevention profiles to highlight current HIV...
Apr 22, 2019 | Andrea Grenadier
Measles outbreaks are occurring across the country. Since the beginning of 2019, there have been 465 measles cases; 85 people in...
Apr 16, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
As you may know, there have been multiple outbreaks of measles in the U.S. recently. Measles is highly contagious and spreads through...
Apr 15, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Is it a random uptick in death and disease or is it a trend? This question haunts disease surveillance experts in state and local health departments around the world. Death and disease incidence rates rise and fall–they seldom get systematically smaller in every single time period. How to distinguish an epidemic from random fluctuation can […]
On April 29, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an MMWR article about the increase in measles cases in the U.S. Additionally, CDC hosted a telebriefing about the topic; visit this website to find the audio recording and transcript. Measles was eliminated in the United States in 2000, but during January 1–April […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the final report for the One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization Workshop for the United States. Workshop participants from several federal agencies identified and voted on a list of priority zoonotic diseases to be jointly addressed by human, animal, and environmental health sectors in relevant U.S. federal […]
Last week, global media company Great Big Story released a four-minute short film, The Disease Detectives Stop Outbreaks at Their Source, which highlights CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (also known as Disease Detectives). The film sought to learn more about risks from the potentially-deadly leptospirosis in the US Virgin Islands (USVI). Caitlin Cossaboom, who works in CDC’s […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar issued the following statement regarding the current measles outbreaks around the United States: “The United States is seeing a resurgence of measles, a disease that had once been effectively eliminated from our country. And today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that ongoing measles outbreaks […]
Historic rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) indicate that something about our response isn’t working. In fact, maybe even many things aren’t working. One thing is certain — not all clinical encounters are patient-centered. There are several elements that make up patient-centered care, including respect for patients’ preferences, encouraging patients’ involvement in their healthcare,...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released state HIV prevention profiles to highlight current HIV prevention challenges, opportunities, and investments in jurisdictions across the nation. The profiles are designed to provide an introduction to HIV prevention terms and efforts for a wide variety of audiences, including policymakers and the public. The […]
Measles outbreaks are occurring across the country. Since the beginning of 2019, there have been 465 measles cases; 85 people in Washington state and Oregon alone have contracted measles. In an era when vaccine-preventable diseases seldom occur in the United States, these measles outbreaks highlight the Portland metropolitan region’s vulnerability to infectious diseases. To assess this […]
As you may know, there have been multiple outbreaks of measles in the U.S. recently. Measles is highly contagious and spreads through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. The virus is so contagious that if one person has it, up to 9 of 10 people around them will also become infected if they are […]
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