The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Health Impact in Five Years (HI-5) community-wide approaches can improve health in the places where we live, learn, work, and play....
Aug 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
This slide deck from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) includes talking points to help public health professionals...
Aug 07, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Keep Calm and Carry On to School: Improving Arrival and Dismissal for Walking and Biking is a new infobrief from the Safe Routes to...
Jul 30, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Chatham County Public Health Department Planning for public health seems to be all the rage these days...
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
The American Planning Association (APA) is working with the Health Impact Project (HIP) to help planners use comprehensive plans for...
Jun 06, 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
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
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
Health Impact in Five Years (HI-5) community-wide approaches can improve health in the places where we live, learn, work, and play. Introducing or expanding public transportation is a HI-5 intervention that helps people reach everyday destinations, such as jobs, schools, healthy food outlets and healthcare facilities, safely and reliably. New HI-5 stories from Public Health Innovators […]
This slide deck from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) includes talking points to help public health professionals and community leaders spread the word about the Built Environment (BE) Active resources to promote and increase physical activity in their communities. Increased collaboration within and across sectors to connect activity-friendly routes with everyday destinations...
Keep Calm and Carry On to School: Improving Arrival and Dismissal for Walking and Biking is a new infobrief from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. The brief provides information on how schools, districts, cities, counties, and community partners can address arrival and dismissal in school travel plans as well as other planning, policy, […]
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 […]
The American Planning Association (APA) is working with the Health Impact Project (HIP) to help planners use comprehensive plans for addressing issues related to health and equity. At least three communities will be selected to receive training and coaching on social determinants of health, health equity, and APA’s Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places. Apply […]
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...
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, […]
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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