The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
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
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
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
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
CDC’s Division for Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) announces the availability of Fiscal Year 2018 funds to implement...
May 14, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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...
CDC’s Division for Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) announces the availability of Fiscal Year 2018 funds to implement CDC-RFA-DP18-1813: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH). This 5-year program will improve health, prevent chronic diseases, and reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic populations with the highest risk, or burden, of chronic disease,...
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