NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and...

NACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources,...

Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan

  • Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2014-15 School...

    On August 28,  CDC released the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report article, “Vaccination Coverage Among Children in...

    Sep 01, 2015 | Kate Drezner

  • National Immunization Survey 19-35 months-2014

    CDC recently released the National Immunization Survey 2014 data for 19-35 month olds. There were no significant decreases in infant...

    Aug 31, 2015 | Kate Drezner

  • National Immunization Survey-Teen Shows Lagging HPV Vaccination Rates

    On July 30, CDC released the results of the National Immunization Survey—Teen module, providing important information about the state...

    Aug 26, 2015 | Kate Heyer

  • “Vaccine” Releases Special Issue on Vaccine Hesitancy

    On August 14, Vaccine released a special issue on vaccine hesitancy. The articles in this issue describe the current understanding of...

    Aug 25, 2015 | Kate Drezner

  • Hepatitis Increasingly Goes along with Heroin Abuse

    As reported by the Associated Press on August 19, public health agencies and drug treatment centers nationwide are scrambling to...

    Aug 24, 2015 | Hilary McQuie

  • NACCHO Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Ryan White CARE Act

    This past Tuesday, August 18, marked the 25th anniversary of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act. It was...

    Aug 21, 2015 | Gretchen Weiss

  • Surveillance for Waterborne Disease Outbreaks Associated with Drinking Water —...

    The August CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report featured several articles about waterborne diseases, including...

    Aug 19, 2015 | Kate Drezner

  • Addressing the Public Health Threat of Climate Change

    August 3rd was an historic day for the health of the United States as the White House announced the Clean Power Plan to tackle the...

    Aug 19, 2015 | Lisa Brown

  • NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and Promising Practices

    NACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources, administrative practices, or tools that demonstrate exemplary and replicable qualities in response to a local public health need. A model practice meets the following criteria: local health department role, collaboration, innovation, responsiveness, and evaluation of both the...

    Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan

    Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2014-15 School Year

    On August 28,  CDC released the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report article, “Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten-United States, 2014-15 School Year.” This report describes vaccination coverage from 49 states and DC and vaccination exemption levels from 46 states and DC for children enrolled in kindergarten during the 2014–15 school year, as reported by federally...

    Sep 01, 2015 | Kate Drezner

    National Immunization Survey 19-35 months-2014

    CDC recently released the National Immunization Survey 2014 data for 19-35 month olds. There were no significant decreases in infant vaccination in 2014 compared to 2013, but significant increases were seen with the first and second Hepatitis A dose. For the full results, view the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report article and the CDC’s website.

    Aug 31, 2015 | Kate Drezner

    National Immunization Survey-Teen Shows Lagging HPV Vaccination Rates

    On July 30, CDC released the results of the National Immunization Survey—Teen module, providing important information about the state of adolescent immunization coverage in the United States. The survey, conducted via phone with additional follow up with providers to confirm individuals’ immunization history, showed that progress has been made in increasing coverage for all three […]

    Aug 26, 2015 | Kate Heyer

    “Vaccine” Releases Special Issue on Vaccine Hesitancy

    On August 14, Vaccine released a special issue on vaccine hesitancy. The articles in this issue describe the current understanding of vaccine hesitancy and give broad recommendations for moving forward.

    Aug 25, 2015 | Kate Drezner

    Hepatitis Increasingly Goes along with Heroin Abuse

    As reported by the Associated Press on August 19, public health agencies and drug treatment centers nationwide are scrambling to battle an explosive increase in cases of hepatitis C, an outbreak they believe stems from a surge in intravenous heroin use. In response, some local authorities are advocating for needle exchange programs for the first time. But […]

    Aug 24, 2015 | Hilary McQuie

    NACCHO Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Ryan White CARE Act

    This past Tuesday, August 18, marked the 25th anniversary of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act. It was a day to reflect on the passion that inspired the legislation, purpose that continues to drive the program, and excellence in health outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS. It was also a day for […]

    Aug 21, 2015 | Gretchen Weiss

    Surveillance for Waterborne Disease Outbreaks Associated with Drinking Water — United States, 2011–2012

    The August CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report featured several articles about waterborne diseases, including “Surveillance for Waterborne Disease Outbreaks Associated with Drinking Water – United States, 2011-2012“. In 2011 and 2012, CDC’s Waterborne Disease and Outbreak System identified 32 outbreaks, 431 illnesses, 102 hospitalizations, and 14 deaths related to...

    Aug 19, 2015 | Kate Drezner

    Addressing the Public Health Threat of Climate Change

    August 3rd was an historic day for the health of the United States as the White House announced the Clean Power Plan to tackle the effects of climate change. The Clean Power Plan establishes the first-ever national standards to limit carbon pollution from power plants. Climate change is transforming the landscape of public health by altering the […]

    Aug 19, 2015 | Lisa Brown

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