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By Marilyn Gisser, Washington State Department of Health It takes a tireless dedication to help your community thrive and to assist...
Sep 25, 2018 | NacchoVoice
By Deborah Mutschler, Massachusetts Essentials for Childhood Massachusetts Essentials for Childhood (MA EfC) promotes a variety of...
Sep 24, 2018 | NacchoVoice
By: Judi Jennings, Special Project Director, Louisville, KY The Special Project recently completed a health impact assessment (HIA)...
Sep 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Tomei Kuehl, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Colorado is one of five Centers for Disease Control and...
Sep 21, 2018 | NacchoVoice
NACCHO recently hosted a webinar about the experiences of two local health departments – Florida Department of Health in Pinellas...
Sep 20, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
By Marissa Abbott, MPH and Steve Wirtz, PhD, California Department of Public Health The California Essentials for Childhood (EfC)...
Sep 20, 2018 | NacchoVoice
By Catherine Joyner & Michelle Reis, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health In 2014,...
Sep 18, 2018 | NacchoVoice
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) released a new resource, Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programs: Tips...
Sep 13, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
By the Children’s Environmental Health Committee of the American Public Health Association’s Environment Section Local health...
Sep 12, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
By Marilyn Gisser, Washington State Department of Health It takes a tireless dedication to help your community thrive and to assist those who struggle with health or social challenges. Often the work occurs in isolation and with limited feedback. Washington State received an overwhelming response when it offered to bring together individuals from across the state to […]
By Deborah Mutschler, Massachusetts Essentials for Childhood Massachusetts Essentials for Childhood (MA EfC) promotes a variety of opportunities communities can employ to promote safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments to prevent child abuse and neglect. To highlight an expansive view of partnership, MA EfC created the Essential Agent of Change Awards, which honors community...
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...
By Tomei Kuehl, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Colorado is one of five Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Essentials for Childhood recipients and chose to focus on employer engagement as one a strategy to address child abuse and neglect prevention and promote safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for all children. The Colorado […]
NACCHO recently hosted a webinar about the experiences of two local health departments – Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County and Metro Public Health Department of Nashville/Davidson County – in engaging with school districts and other key community stakeholders through a year-long action planning process to implement school-based HIV and STD prevention programs. Through […]
By Marissa Abbott, MPH and Steve Wirtz, PhD, California Department of Public Health The California Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative launched a new set of child adversity and resilience data indicators on Kidsdata.org. Furthermore, the initiative created state and local dashboards to bring together sources of data that represent a broader set of life experiences than […]
By Catherine Joyner & Michelle Reis, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health In 2014, the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) Division of Public Health (DPH), convened a statewide Task Force on Essentials for Childhood, tasked with developing […]
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) released a new resource, Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programs: Tips for Optimizing Practice Management, which provides tips to help optimize flu immunization programs in obstetric–gynecologic practices. An obstetrician–gynecologist (ob-gyn) plays a crucial role in providing important information on influenza (flu) immunization for...
By the Children’s Environmental Health Committee of the American Public Health Association’s Environment Section Local health department professionals are uniquely aware of the health issues and risks affecting their towns and cities. Some counties have a disproportionate number of homes with lead paint, and others have increasing asthma prevalence rates among children. Children are especially...
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