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A recent study published in PNAS was the first to establish a pollution inequity metric that quantifies the disproportionate burden on...
Mar 25, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
By Erin Vinoski Thomas, MPH, CHES, Health and Disability Fellow, NACCHO Many women with disabilities want to experience pregnancy....
Mar 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Young children often are hardest hit by the consequences of poor environmental public health systems. For their size, they breathe...
Mar 18, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
ChangeLab Solutions recently released a newly updated model policy regarding Complete Streets: Model State Legislation Establishing...
Interview by Taylarr Lopez, Communications Specialist, NACCHO NACCHO’s Member Spotlight series features interviews with local health...
Mar 18, 2019 | NacchoVoice
Merck Foundation has opened the call for proposals for its new initiative, HIV Care Connect, which aims to reduce disparities in...
Feb 26, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Build Healthy Places Network released the Principles for Building Healthy and Prosperous Communities. The five principles emerged...
Feb 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Indian Health Service (IHS) National STD program and the IHS Division of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention have released the...
Feb 11, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)-National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) Award for Health Equity recognizes an...
Feb 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
A recent study published in PNAS was the first to establish a pollution inequity metric that quantifies the disproportionate burden on black and Hispanic Americans from air pollution caused mainly by white Americans’ consumption of goods and services. This is the significance of the study from the authors: “Racial–ethnic disparities in pollution exposure and in consumption […]
By Erin Vinoski Thomas, MPH, CHES, Health and Disability Fellow, NACCHO Many women with disabilities want to experience pregnancy. Pregnancy rates among women with disabilities have grown in recent years and are similar to pregnancy rates of women without disabilities in the same age and income groups.[1,2] Despite these statistics, women with disabilities remain at heightened risk […]
Young children often are hardest hit by the consequences of poor environmental public health systems. For their size, they breathe more air and eat more food than adults, making them particularly vulnerable to environmental public health hazards. And even low levels of toxic exposures can affect children’s physical and mental development. While everyone suffers the […]
ChangeLab Solutions recently released a newly updated model policy regarding Complete Streets: Model State Legislation Establishing Complete Streets. Complete streets promote mobility for people of all ages, abilities, and income levels. These policies encourage many different forms of transportation, including walking, biking, taking public transit, and driving. Complete streets have been shown...
Interview by Taylarr Lopez, Communications Specialist, NACCHO NACCHO’s Member Spotlight series features interviews with local health department leaders and staff about their careers in public health. This interview features Lisa Macon Harrison, MPH, Health Director of the Granville Vance Public Health Department in North Carolina. Below, she shares the how her department is addressing mental...
Merck Foundation has opened the call for proposals for its new initiative, HIV Care Connect, which aims to reduce disparities in access to care and improve health outcomes for people with HIV living in vulnerable communities in the Southeastern United States. The Foundation is establishing this initiative with a commitment of $7 million over five years. […]
The Build Healthy Places Network released the Principles for Building Healthy and Prosperous Communities. The five principles emerged from a cross-sector review of value statements, mission statements, and principles of organizations in the field. The Network put out a survey of proposed principles and collected feedback from across the country. The values in these Principles […]
The Indian Health Service (IHS) National STD program and the IHS Division of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention have released the Indian Health Surveillance Report — Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2015. The report presents statistics and trends for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) in the United States and represents a unique […]
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)-National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) Award for Health Equity recognizes an individual, or team of no more than two individuals, who has successfully implemented a systems change approach to reduce health disparities and achieve health equity in his/her community within the past two years. Health disparities is defined as the […]
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