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In 2016, in response to the ongoing lead water crisis, the Genesee County Board of Health in Michigan proposed a Health Equity in All...
Oct 30, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
An article on a Health in All Policies (HiAP) framework developed by NACCHO staff was published in the Journal of Environmental...
Oct 22, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
In November, NCHH, in collaboration with NEHA, NACCHO, and ASTHO, will offer a new funding opportunity for local governmental agencies...
This blog post from the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School reviews recent research from five states on health in all policies...
Aug 29, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Mike Zelek, MPH, Division Director, Health Promotion and Policy, Chatham County Public Health Department Planning for public health...
Jul 17, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
ChangeLab Solutions released a new Health in All Policies (HiAP) resource to provides strategies for collaboration, challenges to...
Jun 28, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
A new article in Health Affairs examines whether the health-in-all-policies approach promotes health equity. Here is the abstract:...
May 22, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
National Public Health Week is April 2 – 8, and in honor of today’s theme of environmental health, we are sharing the top...
Apr 04, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Health in All Policies (HiAP) is a change in systems that determine how decisions are made and implemented by governments to ensure...
Mar 22, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
In 2016, in response to the ongoing lead water crisis, the Genesee County Board of Health in Michigan proposed a Health Equity in All Policies (HEiAP) Resolution to address inequitable health outcomes. Taking steps to implement the resolution, the Genesee County Health Department (GCHD) worked with community groups to offer trainings and host public health conferences […]
An article on a Health in All Policies (HiAP) framework developed by NACCHO staff was published in the Journal of Environmental Health. The article, “Navigating Degrees of Collaboration: A Proposed Framework for Identifying and Implementing Health in All Policies,” focuses on a framework that provides practitioners with a common language for working with partners, assessing current...
In November, NCHH, in collaboration with NEHA, NACCHO, and ASTHO, will offer a new funding opportunity for local governmental agencies housing their jurisdiction’s childhood lead prevention programs (i.e., local health departments, local environmental health agencies). The funding will support their agency to implement a Health in All Policies strategy as part of their lead prevention […]
This blog post from the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School reviews recent research from five states on health in all policies (HiAP) and health equity programs, looking at how HiAP efforts are developed, structured, and implemented, as well as the intersection of those efforts with public health law. Read the blog post here. The […]
By Mike Zelek, MPH, Division Director, Health Promotion and Policy, Chatham County Public Health Department Planning for public health seems to be all the rage these days, with public health practitioners engaging partners from a range of sectors in hopes of finally making progress on those hard-to-change issues like obesity. At the Chatham County Public Health […]
ChangeLab Solutions released a new Health in All Policies (HiAP) resource to provides strategies for collaboration, challenges to consider, and concrete guidance and inspiration from real people who have done HiAP work. Because HiAP is fundamentally about good governance, this roadmap focuses on using policy to build and institutionalize the public sector’s ability to collaborate […]
A new article in Health Affairs examines whether the health-in-all-policies approach promotes health equity. Here is the abstract: “Scholars and public health advocates have expressed optimism about the potential for the health-in-all-policies approach to address social disparities in health, but little research has been done on whether it promotes health equity in practice. Based on...
National Public Health Week is April 2 – 8, and in honor of today’s theme of environmental health, we are sharing the top five environmental health resources and opportunities from NACCHO you need to know about right now: Participate in the Local Environmental Health Directors & Managers Collaborative: NACCHO is piloting a new collaborative to foster a […]
Health in All Policies (HiAP) is a change in systems that determine how decisions are made and implemented by governments to ensure policy decisions have neutral or beneficial impacts on health determinants. NACCHO developed a series of fact sheets to provides promising strategies, recommendations, and key assets for implementation for local health department HiAP initiatives. […]
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