This blog embodies NACCHO’s mission to empower local health departments and drive positive change.
ChangeLab Solutions released a new Health in All Policies (HiAP) resource to provides strategies for collaboration, challenges to...
Jun 28, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Local Health Departments’ Role in Wildfire Response Local health departments are life-saving first responders to natural disasters...
Jun 27, 2018 | Katie Dwyer
To help consumers navigate information about popular herbs and herbal supplements, the National Institutes of Health’s National Center...
Jun 22, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The 2018 County Health Rankings report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the University of Wisconsin Population...
The National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention’s (NCHHSTP) AtlasPlus has added 11 new indicators that...
Jun 18, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) combined forces to create an...
Jun 06, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
This newsletter was developed as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School...
Jun 05, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Office of Adolescent Health has released an updated playbook to support their national call to action, Adolescent Health:...
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists’ STD Subcommittee released Syphilis Outbreak Detection Guidance. The document was...
Jun 04, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
ChangeLab Solutions released a new Health in All Policies (HiAP) resource to provides strategies for collaboration, challenges to consider, and concrete guidance and inspiration from real people who have done HiAP work. Because HiAP is fundamentally about good governance, this roadmap focuses on using policy to build and institutionalize the public sector’s ability to collaborate […]
Local Health Departments’ Role in Wildfire Response Local health departments are life-saving first responders to natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods and earthquakes, as well as to other public health emergencies such as disease outbreaks, major accidents and terrorist attacks. The nearly 3,000 local health departments across our nation stand ready to help protect...
To help consumers navigate information about popular herbs and herbal supplements, the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health launched HerbList™ – an app for research-based information about the safety and effectiveness of herbal products. HerbList helps consumers, patients, healthcare providers, and other users to quickly access information about...
The 2018 County Health Rankings report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute brings to light health gaps persisting not only by place, but also among racial and ethnic groups. These gaps are largely the result of differences in opportunities in the places where we live, including education, […]
The National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention’s (NCHHSTP) AtlasPlus has added 11 new indicators that increase access to information on HIV and, for the first time, social determinants of health. AtlasPlus gives you quick access to more than 15 years of CDC’s surveillance data on HIV, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), […]
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) combined forces to create an immunization app. The Shots Immunizations app, developed by vaccine experts at STFM and AAFP and released March 2018, is designed to serve as a point-of-care reference tool, covering every aspect of the current 2018 immunization schedules (adult, […]
This newsletter was developed as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health’s (DASH) initiative, Expanding Partnerships and Disseminating HIV Prevention Materials to Reduce HIV and other STDs among Adolescents through National Non-Governmental Organizations (PS16-1603). The initiative was created to increase education of key stakeholders...
The U.S. Office of Adolescent Health has released an updated playbook to support their national call to action, Adolescent Health: Think, Act, Grow® (TAG). TAG seeks to engage professionals, families, and youth to support adolescent health and healthy development. The TAG Playbook is a comprehensive guide that provides a framework for taking action to promote adolescent health. The […]
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists’ STD Subcommittee released Syphilis Outbreak Detection Guidance. The document was developed to give STD programs a framework for understanding syphilis epidemiology, determining if and when an outbreak of syphilis might be occurring, and determining when additional resources and activities could be needed to prevent further transmission of...
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