The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Sepsis is the body’s life-threatening response to infection that affects 1.7 million people and takes 270,000 lives annually in the...
Aug 26, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
International Overdose Awareness Day, held on August 31 every year, is an opportunity to do more to prevent overdose and promote...
Aug 20, 2019 | Andrea Grenadier
Southern AIDS Coalition (SAC) will host the inaugural Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (SHAAD) in Birmingham, AL on August 20, 2019....
Aug 13, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) is an annual observance held in August to highlight the importance of vaccination for...
Jul 25, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) held its 64th annual meeting in Jackson, Mississippi on July 8-9, which included...
Jul 16, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
In 2011, Sepsis Alliance designated September as Sepsis Awareness Month. Over the last eight years, this health observance has...
Jul 08, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
NACCHO released two new Health in All Policies (HiAP) success stories: Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC): The goal of BHPC’s...
Jul 07, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
truth® is a national tobacco prevention counter-marketing campaign that speaks to youth and young adults on their terms, through the...
The Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) established Children’s Environmental Health Day in 2016 as a way to...
Jun 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Sepsis is the body’s life-threatening response to infection that affects 1.7 million people and takes 270,000 lives annually in the United States. In 2011, Sepsis Alliance designated September as Sepsis Awareness Month. Sepsis Alliance created a Sepsis AwarenessToolkit to help organizations educate healthcare providers and community members about the signs and symptoms of sepsis. NACCHO and...
International Overdose Awareness Day, held on August 31 every year, is an opportunity to do more to prevent overdose and promote recovery. Events and activities around the world stimulate conversations to raise awareness of overdose and reduce stigma associated with drug-related deaths. In the U.S., the drug overdose epidemic continues to expand, with national provisional drug counts reporting...
Southern AIDS Coalition (SAC) will host the inaugural Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (SHAAD) in Birmingham, AL on August 20, 2019. SHAAD is an opportunity to bring people together from across the country to join a national movement to raise awareness, erase HIV-related stigma and discrimination, and advocate for new and necessary resources and solutions for the Southern […]
National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) is an annual observance held in August to highlight the importance of vaccination for people of all ages. To facilitate local support of this national awareness effort, the Public Health Foundation (PHF), in collaboration with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) at the Centers for Disease Control […]
The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) held its 64th annual meeting in Jackson, Mississippi on July 8-9, which included a panel presentation on “Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America.” During the meeting, Brett Giroir, MD, ADM, Assistant Secretary for Health for the Department of Health and Human Services, announced that his office […]
In 2011, Sepsis Alliance designated September as Sepsis Awareness Month. Over the last eight years, this health observance has increased sepsis awareness in the United States from 42% to 65%. Despite these great strides, sepsis remains a public health crisis, taking a life every two minutes. Sepsis takes more lives than opioid overdoses, breast cancer, and prostate […]
NACCHO released two new Health in All Policies (HiAP) success stories: Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC): The goal of BHPC’s Health Equity in All Policies initiative, led by the BPHC Office of Health Equity, is to better equip city departments to address racial justice and health equity issues within their sectors. Florida Department of Health in […]
truth® is a national tobacco prevention counter-marketing campaign that speaks to youth and young adults on their terms, through the channels they understand and trust. truth delivers the facts about the health effects and social consequences of tobacco and the marketing tactics of the tobacco industry so that youth and young adults can make informed […]
The Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) established Children’s Environmental Health Day in 2016 as a way to raise awareness about how environmental exposures impact children’s health. It is also a day of action that can be used to mobilize individuals, families, organizations, and communities to champion, on behalf of all children, the right to clean […]
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NACCHO, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a funding opportunity for The Improving...
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