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Oct 23, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
Oct 18, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Marie Smith and Dylan Williams, NACCHO Interns Vector-borne diseases (e.g., Zika virus, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease) are a...
Oct 03, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Michael Dohn, MD, MSc, Medical Director, Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County The Montgomery County opioid overdose death...
Sep 18, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
A health impact assessment (HIA) is an approach to identify how a proposed policy or project might impact a community and the health...
Sep 12, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical...
Sep 06, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
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
Common Ground Health conducted a health impact assessment on the bike share program in Rochester, NY to analyze the impact on resident...
Aug 28, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Smart Growth America released case studies from Orlando, FL; Lexington, KY; and South Bend, IN describing the roll-out of the Safe...
Jul 18, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards) are designed to help food regulatory programs enhance the services they provide to the public. This post is the third in NACCHO’s Retail Program Standards blog series showcasing the progress that communities across the country have made in […]
By Marie Smith and Dylan Williams, NACCHO Interns Vector-borne diseases (e.g., Zika virus, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease) are a concern to many Americans, spreading among the population through mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, and other vectors. The mosquitoes and ticks that spread disease are highly mobile creatures that are able to reproduce rapidly. As vector-borne […]
By Michael Dohn, MD, MSc, Medical Director, Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County The Montgomery County opioid overdose death rate was the highest in Ohio from 2010 through 2016. Accidental opioid overdose deaths continued to climb in 2017. Montgomery County became the face of the opioid epidemic with the publication of “Faces of an Epidemic” […]
A health impact assessment (HIA) is an approach to identify how a proposed policy or project might impact a community and the health of its citizens. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted a rapid HIA to assist Dover, DE in making a decision about turning a former EPA brownfield site into an aquaponics food production […]
By Karin Valentine Goins, MPH, Program Director, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three-part series covering the Capabilities for Public Health Agency Involvement in Land Use and Transportation Decision Making to Increase Active Transportation Opportunity from the UMass Worcester Prevention...
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...
Common Ground Health conducted a health impact assessment on the bike share program in Rochester, NY to analyze the impact on resident health and any barriers to access. The HIA recommended installing new bike stations in areas with higher rates of chronic disease, as well as increasing accessibility for low-income populations by expanding membership plans and […]
Smart Growth America released case studies from Orlando, FL; Lexington, KY; and South Bend, IN describing the roll-out of the Safe Streets Academy. This program worked to build skills in safer street design, creative placemaking, and community engagement, then helped the cities put these skills into practice. Read the case studies.
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