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To Build Health Security, Boost Community Health
You may not think about it, but there are things you do every day for your community that enhance our nation’s health security. Every...
Feb 27, 2015 | Guest Author
Fighting the Measles Resurgence in the United States
The United States has recently seen a resurgence in measles disease. This is due in part to misinformation about the safety of...
Feb 25, 2015 | Guest Author
Strengthening Public Health at Its Core: A Focus on Disease Intervention Specialists
Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) work in communities throughout the United States and the U.S. territories to protect the...
Feb 19, 2015 | Guest Author
The Impact of Vaccine Hesitancy on National Immunization Rates
Outbreaks of measles, mumps, and pertussis (whooping cough) threaten the health of children across the United States. Most of these...
Feb 18, 2015 | Guest Author
Public Health and Pharmacy Professional Collaboration Through APHA
The expanding role of pharmacists in health care and public health has been highlighted in recent years by NACCHO through its...
Feb 11, 2015 | Guest Author
Local Health Departments Play a Key Role in Measles Outbreak Response
The CDC held a press conference on January 29 in response to the ongoing measles outbreak. State and local health departments are...
Jan 30, 2015 | Guest Author
Resource Mobilization and Utilization in an Emergency: Pinal County Public Health...
Increasing infectious disease threats mean health departments face increasing resource constraints. To see how local health...
Jan 07, 2015 | Guest Author
To Build Health Security, Boost Community HealthYou may not think about it, but there are things you do every day for your community that enhance our nation’s health security. Every time you run a vaccination clinic or spearhead a disease prevention campaign, you improve health security. Every time you track a disease outbreak or connect people with personal health services, like preventive or health promotion services, you give health... Feb 27, 2015 | Guest Author |
Fighting the Measles Resurgence in the United StatesThe United States has recently seen a resurgence in measles disease. This is due in part to misinformation about the safety of vaccines in general and the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in particular. The resulting vaccine hesitancy has led to lower immunization rates, with individuals at higher risk of disease and populations at higher risk of outbreaks. Feb 25, 2015 | Guest Author |
Strengthening Public Health at Its Core: A Focus on Disease Intervention SpecialistsDisease Intervention Specialists (DIS) work in communities throughout the United States and the U.S. territories to protect the public’s health. Originally established to work in the field of STD prevention, DIS have ground-level investigative skills that have become key components of tuberculosis outbreak response, HIV exposure notification, other infectious disease control efforts, and... Feb 19, 2015 | Guest Author |
The Impact of Vaccine Hesitancy on National Immunization RatesOutbreaks of measles, mumps, and pertussis (whooping cough) threaten the health of children across the United States. Most of these vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks have been fueled by deliberately unvaccinated children. In addition, stagnant human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates limit the vaccine’s potential to prevent cancers. Vaccines are the cornerstone of a healthy society—and... Feb 18, 2015 | Guest Author |
Public Health and Pharmacy Professional Collaboration Through APHAThe expanding role of pharmacists in health care and public health has been highlighted in recent years by NACCHO through its Statement of Policy and other publications, and just last month in the National Governor’s Association’s newly released report. Pharmacies share a common mission with local health departments and other public health organizations to serve […] Feb 11, 2015 | Guest Author |
Local Health Departments Play a Key Role in Measles Outbreak ResponseThe CDC held a press conference on January 29 in response to the ongoing measles outbreak. State and local health departments are working vigorously investigating the current multistate measles outbreak. Since January 1, 84 measles cases have been confirmed in 14 states, more cases than the median number of cases per year over the last […] Jan 30, 2015 | Guest Author |
Resource Mobilization and Utilization in an Emergency: Pinal County Public Health Services DistrictIncreasing infectious disease threats mean health departments face increasing resource constraints. To see how local health departments are managing different pressures, NACCHO Policy Scholar, Pooja Kothari, spoke with Kore Redden, the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Administrator for Pinal County Public Health Services District (AZ). Redden discusses how Pinal County is... Jan 07, 2015 | Guest Author |
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