The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
New data from FAIR Health found that diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were up 98% in rural areas compared with a...
Apr 15, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
As we have done for the last several years, NACCHO provided several full scholarships for local health department disease intervention...
Feb 04, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
By Kevin Cevasco, MBA, NACCHO Intern The Trust for Public Land (TPL), in partnership with NACCHO, is identifying ways to introduce...
Dec 10, 2019 | Guest Author
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur in about one out of every 31 hospital patients. In 2015, the last year for which data...
Nov 21, 2019 | Erin Laird
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of preventable infectious disease deaths worldwide, and in the United States, eliminating TB...
Oct 17, 2019 | Andrea Grenadier
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) on...
Aug 15, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Complex health problems facing communities today require creative solutions that can impact the root causes that deprive many people...
Jul 02, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Note: This was originally posted on the Healthy Places by Design blog. By Tim Schwantes, Project Officer, Healthy Places by Design...
Oct 24, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By: Judi Jennings, Special Project Director, Louisville, KY The Special Project recently completed a health impact assessment (HIA)...
Sep 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
New data from FAIR Health found that diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were up 98% in rural areas compared with a 77% increase in urban areas. While these increasing numbers are alarming, local health departments (LHDs) play a critical role in providing STI treatment and prevention that can help address rising STI rates. This STD […]
As we have done for the last several years, NACCHO provided several full scholarships for local health department disease intervention specialists (DIS) to attend the STD Engage conference and build expertise in STD prevention and control within a broader sexual health approach. Held November 19-22, 2019, STD Engage 2019: Innovate. Impact. Empower brought together DIS, clinic and program staff,...
By Kevin Cevasco, MBA, NACCHO Intern The Trust for Public Land (TPL), in partnership with NACCHO, is identifying ways to introduce place-based arts practices within county and city public health agencies. This practice is referred to as creative placemaking, and it involves public, private, non-profit, and community sectors partnering up to strategically shape the physical […]
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur in about one out of every 31 hospital patients. In 2015, the last year for which data are available, this resulted in 72,000 deaths attributed to HAIs. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major public health threat which compounds the challenge of HAIs. Antibiotic-resistant infections cause over 35,000 deaths each year and nine […]
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of preventable infectious disease deaths worldwide, and in the United States, eliminating TB is a national public health goal.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) on August 13, 2019. NOFO HRSA-20-078: Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America — Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Parts A and B focus resources within the phase 1 jurisdictions outlined in the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative […]
Complex health problems facing communities today require creative solutions that can impact the root causes that deprive many people of the opportunity to reach their best health potential. Addressing these issues requires partnerships that work across different sectors, leverage an array of expertise and resources, and develop synergistic solutions that are more powerful than what […]
Note: This was originally posted on the Healthy Places by Design blog. By Tim Schwantes, Project Officer, Healthy Places by Design During a time when public confidence in government is low, six municipalities in Wake County, NC, have demonstrated that local governments can still have a profound effect on their communities’ health. In fact, healthy […]
By: Judi Jennings, Special Project Director, Louisville, KY The Special Project recently completed a health impact assessment (HIA) demonstrating how public health leaders, artists and criminal justice reformers can work together to assess how parental incarceration harms children’s health. The HIA and health equity framework proved to be important tools for proposed policy change; art and...
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