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August is National Breastfeeding Month and this week is World Breastfeeding Week! This year's theme highlights the links between...
Aug 03, 2020 | Harumi Reis-Reilly
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics System, the 2018 maternal mortality rate was...
Jul 22, 2020 | Adelaide Appiah
Residents of rural areas have a higher cancer mortality, particularly for cancers that are preventable through screening such as...
Jul 10, 2020 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has elected Lisa Macon Harrison, Local Health Director of...
Jul 02, 2020 | NacchoVoice
Since its launch, the All of Us Research Program has enrolled more than 350,000 participants, more than 80% of whom represent...
Jun 11, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The Women’s Preventive Services Initiative (WPSI) has released the 2020 update to the Recommendations for Well-Woman Care—A Well-Woman...
May 15, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Data from two CDC systems – the Vaccines for Children Program (VFC) provider ordering data and the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)...
May 11, 2020 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
This new Kaiser Family Foundation report discusses online contraceptive and STI services that are available during the COVID-19...
Apr 29, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) is observed each April to remind communities of the importance of immunizations in protecting...
Apr 17, 2020 | Amy Frandsen
August is National Breastfeeding Month and this week is World Breastfeeding Week! This year's theme highlights the links between breastfeeding and planetary health.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics System, the 2018 maternal mortality rate was 17.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, placing the United States significantly behind other developed countries.
Residents of rural areas have a higher cancer mortality, particularly for cancers that are preventable through screening such as cervical cancer. There are many barriers to screening and cancer treatment for rural areas.
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has elected Lisa Macon Harrison, Local Health Director of Granville Vance Public Health, to its 2020-2021 Board of Directors as Vice President.
Since its launch, the All of Us Research Program has enrolled more than 350,000 participants, more than 80% of whom represent communities that have been historically underrepresented in biomedical research. We at NACCHO believe that with the help of our nearly 3,000 local health department (LHD) members – which are located across the entirety of the U.S. and thus serve a diverse swath of the...
The Women’s Preventive Services Initiative (WPSI) has released the 2020 update to the Recommendations for Well-Woman Care—A Well-Woman Chart.
Data from two CDC systems – the Vaccines for Children Program (VFC) provider ordering data and the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) vaccine administration data – show decreases in ordering and administering of childhood vaccines during the first four months of 2020.
This new Kaiser Family Foundation report discusses online contraceptive and STI services that are available during the COVID-19 pandemic.
National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) is observed each April to remind communities of the importance of immunizations in protecting those aged two and under from vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs). For over 25 years, NIIW has celebrated the work of immunization programs, healthcare providers, and partners in promoting and providing vaccines. This year, NIIW is observed […]
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