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Breaking the Silence Through Storytelling: Confronting Medical Mistrust to Advance...
Baltimore City’s Health Department is using storytelling to address medical mistrust when it comes to HIV prevention and...
Mar 30, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
CDC: Hunting Down Healthcare-associated Fungal Infections
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) program fosters scientific...
Mar 29, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Archived Webinar: Healthy Communities – An Assessment and Implementation Framework...
The New York State Disability and Health Program in partnership with the SUNY Albany School of Public Health released a recording of...
Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Fact Sheet: Disability Stigma and Your Patients
The University of Washington Healthy Aging Rehabilitation Research Training Center has released a fact sheet entitled, “Disability...
Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
CDC Vital Signs: Arthritis in America
This month’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vital Signs Report addresses how arthritis affects millions of adults in...
Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
March is National Nutrition Month!
This year’s theme for National Nutrition Month® is “Put Your Best Fork Forward.” This month is a great way to promote messages...
Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice features NACCHO Health and...
NACCHO’s Health and Disability Program was recently highlighted in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. The article,...
Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Seeking Local Health Department Input: Community Inclusion Efforts
NACCHO’s Health and Disability Program is working on a project with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and the National...
Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Meet the 2016-2017 NACCHO Health and Disability Fellows
The NACCHO Health and Disability program is thrilled to introduce its 2016-17 fellows. NACCHO’s Health and Disability Fellowship is an...
Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman
Breaking the Silence Through Storytelling: Confronting Medical Mistrust to Advance HIV PreventionBaltimore City’s Health Department is using storytelling to address medical mistrust when it comes to HIV prevention and treatment in their community. Last year, they started two programs: Baltimore in Conversation and Project Presence, to bring together members of the community to share their stories of accessing healthcare and HIV treatment. These projects stem from […] Mar 30, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
CDC: Hunting Down Healthcare-associated Fungal InfectionsThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) program fosters scientific innovation in genomic sequencing, epidemiology, and bioinformatics to transform public health and protect people from disease threats. The AMD program recently released a one-pager centered around how AMD is helping us investigate the emerging multi-drug resistant... Mar 29, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
Archived Webinar: Healthy Communities – An Assessment and Implementation Framework to Achieve Inclusion of Persons with DisabilityThe New York State Disability and Health Program in partnership with the SUNY Albany School of Public Health released a recording of their March 2016 webcast, “Healthy Communities: An Assessment and Implementation Framework to Achieve Inclusion of Persons with Disability.” During the webcast, featured presenter, Yochai Eisenberg, MUPP, from the Center on Health Promotion Research for […] Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Fact Sheet: Disability Stigma and Your PatientsThe University of Washington Healthy Aging Rehabilitation Research Training Center has released a fact sheet entitled, “Disability Stigma and Your Patients.” This fact sheet is designed as a guide for health care providers on how to have respectful, stigma-free interactions with their patients. Local health officials are encouraged to share this fact sheet among their […] Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
CDC Vital Signs: Arthritis in AmericaThis month’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vital Signs Report addresses how arthritis affects millions of adults in the United States. About 54 million adults reported that their doctor had diagnosed them with arthritis, and is one of the leading cause of disability. The report presents the latest findings on the effects of arthritis […] Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
March is National Nutrition Month!This year’s theme for National Nutrition Month® is “Put Your Best Fork Forward.” This month is a great way to promote messages about healthy eating in your community. Health.gov has developed a National Nutrition Month Promo Kit to help promote National Nutrition Month as well as the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The Centers for […] Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice features NACCHO Health and Disability ProgramNACCHO’s Health and Disability Program was recently highlighted in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. The article, is titled “NACCHO’s Baseline Assessment of Disability Inclusion Within Local Health Department,” and reviews the results of a 2014 baseline assessment. The assessment was conducted to increase understanding related to local health officials’ knowledge... Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Seeking Local Health Department Input: Community Inclusion EffortsNACCHO’s Health and Disability Program is working on a project with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and the National Center for Health, Physical Activity, and Disability (NCHPAD) to get a better understanding of local health departments’ (LHDs) successes and challenges in including disability and health information into their Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA) […] Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Meet the 2016-2017 NACCHO Health and Disability FellowsThe NACCHO Health and Disability program is thrilled to introduce its 2016-17 fellows. NACCHO’s Health and Disability Fellowship is an invaluable opportunity for undergraduate and/or graduate students pursing degrees in public health to receive hands on experience in the health and disability field. The fellowship includes providing support to local health departments (LHDs) through NACCHO’s... Mar 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman |
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