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Smoke-free multi-unit housing benefits residents and property owners. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...
Jul 17, 2018 | Taylarr Lopez
On June 28, NACCHO hosted a webinar on conducting social network analyses–what they look like and how they can be applied....
Jun 28, 2018 | Christina Baum
How can a local health department respond to an onslaught of vector control (mosquito and rat) complaints? Easy, develop a special...
Jun 27, 2018 | Alyson Jordan
State laws impact how decisions are made by state and local education agencies with regard to school curricula and school-based...
Jun 27, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Local Health Departments’ Role in Wildfire Response Local health departments are life-saving first responders to natural disasters...
Jun 27, 2018 | Katie Dwyer
Using newly-available data on nearly one million children in Colorado, the Colorado Children's Immunization Coalition (CCIC) developed...
Jun 20, 2018 | Alyson Jordan
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a persistent and growing threat to the health of communities. To meet this threat head-on,...
Jun 13, 2018 | Christina Baum
In partnership with the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities...
Jun 13, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
State and local health departments have a responsibility to protect the health and safety of the populations they serve following a...
Jun 05, 2018
Smoke-free multi-unit housing benefits residents and property owners. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires every public housing agency to implement a smoke-free policy by July 2018. Local health departments play a key role in working with public housing agencies to prepare, implement, educate, enforce, and evaluate smoke-free housing policies.
On June 28, NACCHO hosted a webinar on conducting social network analyses–what they look like and how they can be applied. Webinar participants were also led through an explanation and live demonstration of a recently developed toolkit from the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, A Novice’s Guide: Social Network Analysis Using R Statnet, which […]
How can a local health department respond to an onslaught of vector control (mosquito and rat) complaints? Easy, develop a special revenue fund to wholly fund an integrated pest management program. This self-sustaining funding mechanism allows for a proactive program aimed at minimizing the vector control disease burden.
State laws impact how decisions are made by state and local education agencies with regard to school curricula and school-based services offered, including the content and delivery of sexual health education and may vary from general mandates to specific guidelines. As a result, state and local education agencies may have difficulty determining their jurisdiction’s landscape […]
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...
Using newly-available data on nearly one million children in Colorado, the Colorado Children's Immunization Coalition (CCIC) developed custom fact sheets to help each Senate and House district understand its level of community protection and identify areas for improvement.
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a persistent and growing threat to the health of communities. To meet this threat head-on, more local health departments (LHDs) are building their capacity for HAI prevention and response. Enhancing LHD capacity can involve a wide variety of activities such as conducting exercises that test response plans, strengthening connections with healthcare...
In partnership with the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (TFN) announced the opening of Round 13 of the Partners for Places grant program. Partners for Places is a successful matching grant program that improves U.S. and Canadian communities by building partnerships between local government sustainability leaders and...
State and local health departments have a responsibility to protect the health and safety of the populations they serve following a radiological event. In addition, jurisdictions may be asked to monitor, decontaminate, and shelter displaced populations that evacuate to their region from impacted areas in the event of a large-scale radiological event. While there are […]
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The EPA's Small Communities, Big Challenges Competition encourages local governments to demonstrate their innovative strategies, from...
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