The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
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
The Children’s Environmental Health Network released a fact sheet on disparities in children’s health that leave some...
About 60,000 children under age five end up in the emergency room every year after getting into medicines left within reach. National...
Climate Interactive interviewed the leaders of ten initiatives that are innovating in ways the improve health and protect the climate,...
Mar 12, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
A recording is now available from a National Environmental Health Association webinar on “Using Tracking Data to Inform Health...
In honor of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (March 10), the Black AIDS Institute has created resources to ensure that...
Mar 08, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released an online statistical resource that for the first time provides...
Mar 07, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued the 2017 edition of the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards...
Mar 07, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
AIDSVu has released the first-ever interactive state-level maps visualizing a 73 percent increase year over year in persons using...
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. […]
The Children’s Environmental Health Network released a fact sheet on disparities in children’s health that leave some children at greater risk for exposure to pollution and contaminants, as well as asthma and learning disabilities. Read the fact sheet.
About 60,000 children under age five end up in the emergency room every year after getting into medicines left within reach. National Poison Prevention Week (March 18 – 24) serves as a reminder to always keep medicines up and away. This year CDC partnered with the Up and Away campaign to share resources to help […]
Climate Interactive interviewed the leaders of ten initiatives that are innovating in ways the improve health and protect the climate, often while saving money. Their findings on what is possible and how it can be accomplished are presented in the report: Multisolving at the Intersection of Health and Climate: Lessons From Success Stories. With a […]
A recording is now available from a National Environmental Health Association webinar on “Using Tracking Data to Inform Health Impact Assessments.” The webinar showcases three Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) that used data from the Environmental Public Health Tracking portals to inform the process. Speakers also discussed the HIA Tracking toolkit that enables environmental health...
In honor of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (March 10), the Black AIDS Institute has created resources to ensure that Black women have all the information they need to make informed choices about their health, and that service providers have the necessary information to help their clients and patients. The toolkit includes the following sections: […]
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released an online statistical resource that for the first time provides county-level comparisons of hospitalization rates for substance use, including opioids, alcohol, stimulants and other drugs. The resource draws from the agency’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) – the nation’s most comprehensive source of hospital data,...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued the 2017 edition of the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards), which define the key elements of an effective retail food regulatory program for state, local, tribal, and territorial food regulatory agencies. The Retail Program Standards provide recommendations for designing and managing these retail...
AIDSVu has released the first-ever interactive state-level maps visualizing a 73 percent increase year over year in persons using pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) across the U.S. from 2012 to 2016, with 77,120 PrEP users in 2016. PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is when people at high risk for HIV take HIV medicine daily to lower their chances of getting […]
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NACCHO, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a funding opportunity for The Improving...
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