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Cervical Health Awareness Month: Increasing HPV Vaccination to Promote Cervical...
According to the National Cervical Cancer Coalition, nearly 13,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer each...
Jan 24, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Quality Improvement and Accreditation: Essential Aims for All Health Departments
By Claude-Alix Jacob, MPH, NACCHO President and Chief Public Health Officer for the Cambridge Public Health Department (MA) In 2011,...
Jan 12, 2017 | NacchoVoice
NACCHO to Host PHI Conference Webinar Series
The 2016 Public Health Informatics (PHI) Conference provided a forum for exploring the interconnected world of health information...
Jan 09, 2017 | Kim Rodgers
Reflections from the 2016 Harm Reduction Conference
Harm reduction is an important movement that started thirty years ago in the early days of the HIV epidemic, when people who inject...
Dec 06, 2016 | Kim Rodgers
PH3.0: A Challenge for the Nation, a Charge for Public Health
As the nation’s local public health departments begin to consider what Public Health 3.0 (PH3.0) will mean for their missions in...
Nov 17, 2016 | Andrea Grenadier
Using IT to Enhance Public Health Practice and Impact Outcomes
By Informatics Workgroup Chairs Joseph Gibson and Oscar Alleyne, Marion County (IN) Public Health Department and Rockland County (NY)...
Nov 10, 2016 | NacchoVoice
Blog Series: Antimicrobial Resistance & Global Health Security – Collaborative...
So far in this blog series, NACCHO has explored how disease surveillance can combat antimicrobial resistance and highlighted how local...
Nov 10, 2016 | Sara Chang
Public Health Informatics: A Call to Action
By NACCHO’s Informatics Workgroup This story originally ran in NACCHO’s Essential Elements blog. To most effectively serve communities...
Nov 03, 2016 | NacchoVoice
CMS Announces New Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Healthcare Organizations
By Katie Dwyer, MSPH, NACCHO Director Earlier this month marked National Primary Care Week (October 3-7, 2016). This annual observance...
Oct 28, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
Cervical Health Awareness Month: Increasing HPV Vaccination to Promote Cervical HealthAccording to the National Cervical Cancer Coalition, nearly 13,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. Fortunately, with vaccinations and screenings (i.e., Pap and HPV tests), the disease is essentially preventable. To celebrate Cervical Health Awareness Month, and in recognition of the critical role vaccination, NACCHO checked in with two […] Jan 24, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
Quality Improvement and Accreditation: Essential Aims for All Health DepartmentsBy Claude-Alix Jacob, MPH, NACCHO President and Chief Public Health Officer for the Cambridge Public Health Department (MA) In 2011, the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) launched its voluntary national accreditation program for public health departments with the goal of improving and protecting the public’s health by advancing performance improvement. PHAB accreditation seeks to... Jan 12, 2017 | NacchoVoice |
NACCHO to Host PHI Conference Webinar SeriesThe 2016 Public Health Informatics (PHI) Conference provided a forum for exploring the interconnected world of health information technology and sharing innovative ideas on how public health informatics is expanding access to care and improving community health. The resounding theme throughout the conference was the importance of using data to drive public health action. In an effort to further... Jan 09, 2017 | Kim Rodgers |
Reflections from the 2016 Harm Reduction ConferenceHarm reduction is an important movement that started thirty years ago in the early days of the HIV epidemic, when people who inject drugs and their sex partners were dying of AIDS at alarming rates. Harm reduction is a framework for meeting people where they are at and reducing the negative consequences of drug use. […] Dec 06, 2016 | Kim Rodgers |
PH3.0: A Challenge for the Nation, a Charge for Public HealthAs the nation’s local public health departments begin to consider what Public Health 3.0 (PH3.0) will mean for their missions in addressing the full range of factors that influence a person’s overall health and well-being — in short, the social determinants of health — NACCHO recommends taking a comprehensive approach to create sustainable, lasting improvements for […] Nov 17, 2016 | Andrea Grenadier |
Using IT to Enhance Public Health Practice and Impact OutcomesBy Informatics Workgroup Chairs Joseph Gibson and Oscar Alleyne, Marion County (IN) Public Health Department and Rockland County (NY) Department of Health This story originally ran in NACCHO’s Stories from the Field. Informatics sounds like the name of a class that would put any junior in high school to sleep, and the term is often […] Nov 10, 2016 | NacchoVoice |
Blog Series: Antimicrobial Resistance & Global Health Security – Collaborative Efforts in Disease Surveillance (Part 2)So far in this blog series, NACCHO has explored how disease surveillance can combat antimicrobial resistance and highlighted how local health departments can play a role in protecting communities from this public health threat. In this final post, we provide additional cases of how local public health can serve as a key partner in the […] Nov 10, 2016 | Sara Chang |
Public Health Informatics: A Call to ActionBy NACCHO’s Informatics Workgroup This story originally ran in NACCHO’s Essential Elements blog. To most effectively serve communities in today’s information-driven world, local health departments (LHDs) must develop the capability to transform data into public health action (e.g., services, interventions, and policies). But forging that capability is no easy feat. There are a multitude of... Nov 03, 2016 | NacchoVoice |
CMS Announces New Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Healthcare OrganizationsBy Katie Dwyer, MSPH, NACCHO Director Earlier this month marked National Primary Care Week (October 3-7, 2016). This annual observance focuses on improving access and equity for all Americans, including those most medically vulnerable, usually using Medicare or Medicaid to cover their health needs. When considering national preparedness requirements for recipients of these programs, the Centers... Oct 28, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
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