The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Recently, in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, authors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Aug 23, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The number of reported cases of congenital syphilis (CS) has increased every year since 2012, and from 2012 to 2016, the rate has...
Aug 14, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) released two new videos on biomonitoring and environmental health testing: What...
Aug 01, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Antibiotic Stewardship has launched the second of a four-section...
Jul 25, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
It’s been nearly two years since NACCHO’s multi-article supplement, “Public Health Informatics: A Call to...
Jul 19, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published Progress in Vaccine-Preventable and Respiratory Infectious...
Jul 17, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine has released a new study which shows that healthcare professionals...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report, Enhanced Surveillance for Coccidioidomycosis, 14 States,...
Jul 16, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its recommendation for the use of a short course treatment regimen...
Jul 02, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Recently, in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, authors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that antibiotics are the leading cause of emergency department (ED) visits for adverse drug events in children. Antibiotics save lives and are critical tools for treating infections, like those that can lead to sepsis, but […]
The number of reported cases of congenital syphilis (CS) has increased every year since 2012, and from 2012 to 2016, the rate has increased 87%. In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has intensified its efforts to address this concerning trend. For example, CDC recommends syphilis screening for all women at the first […]
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) released two new videos on biomonitoring and environmental health testing: What is biomonitoring? Biomonitoring is the process of testing people for chemicals in their body to determine how exposure might impact their health. But what exactly does that mean? How are public health and environmental health laboratories involved? […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Antibiotic Stewardship has launched the second of a four-section web-based training course on Antibiotic Stewardship, each section of which will be released in 2018. This section is comprised of four modules that will cover: What we know about outpatient antibiotic use in the United States Cases […]
It’s been nearly two years since NACCHO’s multi-article supplement, “Public Health Informatics: A Call to Action,” was featured in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Since then, it’s only become clearer that to effectively serve communities in today’s information-driven world, public health – and its cross-sector partners – must advance...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published Progress in Vaccine-Preventable and Respiratory Infectious Diseases—First 10 Years of the CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), 2006–2015 to highlight progress that has resulted from the development of the NCIRD. Read the abstract below and check out the full article. The need for […]
The Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine has released a new study which shows that healthcare professionals in all outpatient settings unnecessarily prescribed antibiotics for respiratory illnesses like the common cold and bronchitis. According to the study, antibiotics were prescribed unnecessarily in 46% of urgent care center visits, 25% of emergency department visits,...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report, Enhanced Surveillance for Coccidioidomycosis, 14 States, 2016, in the Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases showing that Coccidioidomycosis, commonly known as Valley fever, can cause severe illness in travelers to the southwestern U.S. where it is found. Valley fever causes flu-like symptom such as fever, […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its recommendation for the use of a short course treatment regimen called 3HP to reach even more people with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Treatment of latent TB infection is essential to controlling and eliminating TB in the United States because it substantially reduces the risk […]
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