The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
In October 2018, NACCHO’s Board of Directors approved a new policy statement on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in...
Nov 05, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is partnering with the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) to present two...
Sep 27, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By: Judi Jennings, Special Project Director, Louisville, KY The Special Project recently completed a health impact assessment (HIA)...
Sep 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
This post is the second in a new Retail Program Standards blog series from NACCHO to showcase the progress that communities across the...
Sep 19, 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
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
As one of the biggest public health threats today, climate change is a health equity issue. Authored by Public Health Institute with...
Aug 20, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) collaboratively developed the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards...
This newsletter was developed as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School...
Aug 13, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
In October 2018, NACCHO’s Board of Directors approved a new policy statement on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in response to concerns from local health departments. CAFOs are animal feeding operations with more than 1,000 animal units (e.g., 1,000 head of beef cattle, 700 dairy cows, 2,500 swine >55 lbs., 125,000 broiler chickens, or 82,000 […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is partnering with the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) to present two National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards Self-Assessment and Verification Audit Workshops in April and July 2019. The April workshop will be held on April 23-25, 2019 in Denver, CO. Register for the Denver workshop. The July workshop […]
By: Judi Jennings, Special Project Director, Louisville, KY The Special Project recently completed a health impact assessment (HIA) demonstrating how public health leaders, artists and criminal justice reformers can work together to assess how parental incarceration harms children’s health. The HIA and health equity framework proved to be important tools for proposed policy change; art and...
This post is the second in a new Retail Program Standards blog series from NACCHO to showcase the progress that communities across the country have made in retail food protection. Each month, we are featuring the experiences, challenges, and successes of jurisdictions that have worked toward each standard. All jurisdictions featured have participated in NACCHO’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
As one of the biggest public health threats today, climate change is a health equity issue. Authored by Public Health Institute with support from APHA, the Kresge Foundation, and the California Department of Public Health, Climate Change, Health, and Equity: A Guide for Local Health Departments is designed to help local public health departments integrate […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) collaboratively developed the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards) 20 years ago. The Retail Program Standards are designed to help food regulatory programs enhance the services they provide to the public. When applied in the intended manner, the Retail Program Standards should identify program […]
This newsletter was developed as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health’s (DASH) initiative, Expanding Partnerships and Disseminating HIV Prevention Materials to Reduce HIV and other STDs among Adolescents through National Non-Governmental Organizations (PS16-1603). The initiative was created to increase education of key stakeholders...
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