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By Erin Vinoski Thomas, MPH, CHES, Health and Disability Fellow, NACCHO Many women with disabilities want to experience pregnancy....
Mar 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO’s Health and Disability Program is excited to announce the release of the Mobilizing for Action through Planning and...
Feb 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Oct 23, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Coalition for Sexual Health released a new compendium designed to help primary care and other healthcare providers...
Oct 16, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO recently published a follow-up to a 2014 assessment looking at practices, awareness, and inclusion of people with disabilities...
Aug 29, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Dylan Williams, Intern, and Chelsea Gridley-Smith, Senior Program Analyst, NACCHO Climate change is a problem of national magnitude...
Jul 26, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
People with disabilities comprise 17.1% of America’s rural population, compared with 11.7% of the urban population. To support...
Jul 09, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Whitney Thurman, NACCHO Health and Disability Fellow Intimate partner violence (IPV) is defined as intentional behaviors toward an...
May 16, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
For the last 5,000 years, people around the world have been sipping their drinks out of straws. Only recently have straws come under...
Apr 19, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Erin Vinoski Thomas, MPH, CHES, Health and Disability Fellow, NACCHO Many women with disabilities want to experience pregnancy. Pregnancy rates among women with disabilities have grown in recent years and are similar to pregnancy rates of women without disabilities in the same age and income groups.[1,2] Despite these statistics, women with disabilities remain at heightened risk […]
NACCHO’s Health and Disability Program is excited to announce the release of the Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) Resource Guide for Disability Inclusion. The purpose of this resource guide is to provide guidance on how the MAPP process can be inclusive of people with disabilities. The guide gives health departments the tools […]
The National Coalition for Sexual Health released a new compendium designed to help primary care and other healthcare providers improve their clinical skills and the delivery of sexual health services for a range of patient populations (e.g., adolescents, LGBT and gender nonconforming people, older adults, people with disabilities). The compendium provides practical, open access, evidence-based...
NACCHO recently published a follow-up to a 2014 assessment looking at practices, awareness, and inclusion of people with disabilities in local health departments’ public health practices. The 2014 baseline assessment results indicated that LHDs may lack awareness of the people with disabilities in their jurisdictions and have poor knowledge of health disparities affecting people with...
By Dylan Williams, Intern, and Chelsea Gridley-Smith, Senior Program Analyst, NACCHO Climate change is a problem of national magnitude that affects the health of all Americans. Climate change deteriorates the health of the public by exacerbating extreme weather events and altering natural ecosystems, which affects food sources and the migration of vector-borne diseases. The implications […]
People with disabilities comprise 17.1% of America’s rural population, compared with 11.7% of the urban population. To support local health departments in rural areas in filling resource gaps for people with disabilities, NACCHO released a new fact sheet on Engaging People with Disabilities:Strategies for Rural Health Departments. This fact sheet describes five strategies, including...
By Whitney Thurman, NACCHO Health and Disability Fellow Intimate partner violence (IPV) is defined as intentional behaviors toward an intimate partner in the form of intimidation; emotional abuse; physical, sexual, and/or psychological assault; or any other type of abusive action that is part of a systematic pattern of power and control. IPV has been associated […]
For the last 5,000 years, people around the world have been sipping their drinks out of straws. Only recently have straws come under serious debate. The gold and lapis straws of the ancient Sumerians evolved over the millennia into the plastic straws ubiquitous in restaurants, coffee shops, and bars today. According to one group’s estimate, […]
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