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Providing Medical Care at Large Public Events
Volunteers from the Lewis County MRC and Providence Health & Services provided services to 503 riders, including 135 who required...
Sep 21, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
School Based Oral Health Program
Local health departments serve as a clearinghouse to bring oral health services to children in local public schools. Health...
Sep 16, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
Tracking Flu in a Large Urban Area…A Complicated Matter
Tracking flu is no easy task, especially in Harris County, Texas; millions of residents, dozens of acute care hospitals, countless...
Sep 11, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
New Look for CDC’s Healthy Youth Website
CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) has released a new look for the Healthy Youth website. The new Healthy Youth...
Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and...
NACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources,...
Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
Oral Health to Enhance “Educational Readiness”
For over 10 years, the DC Department of Health (DOH) has supported preventive oral health services for school-age children. Increasing...
Sep 09, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
Outbreak Communications Guide
The National Public Health Information Coalition has released the Outbreak Communications Guide to help public health communicators...
Aug 25, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
WV Volunteer Dentists Develop Community Adult Treatment Program
The Smiles for Life Adult Screening and Referral Program provides a safety net for most needed dental treatment to low income adults...
Aug 19, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
NACCHO’s HPV Project Demonstration Site Highlighted for Prevention Efforts
In a Richmond Times-Dispatch article from August 9, Jim Farrell, who oversees the immunization division at the Virginia Department of...
Aug 19, 2015 | Alyson Jordan
Providing Medical Care at Large Public EventsVolunteers from the Lewis County MRC and Providence Health & Services provided services to 503 riders, including 135 who required hands-on patient care, at the mid-route medical aid station in Centralia, Washington for 10,000 bicyclists riding in the 2015 Seattle-to-Portland Bicycle Classic. This experience was excellent medical surge training for closely allied community partners. Sep 21, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
School Based Oral Health ProgramLocal health departments serve as a clearinghouse to bring oral health services to children in local public schools. Health departments promote the oral health program to schools, and contract with dental providers to ensure that their licensing, background checks and insurance are up to date. Data is collected by the health department and reported back to the schools. Sep 16, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
Tracking Flu in a Large Urban Area…A Complicated MatterTracking flu is no easy task, especially in Harris County, Texas; millions of residents, dozens of acute care hospitals, countless physicians’ offices, and collaboration with many public health partners. Adding to this complexity, only pediatric fatal flu cases and novel influenza are notifiable in Texas. Our solution, approach schools for voluntary reporting. The result, priceless! Sep 11, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
New Look for CDC’s Healthy Youth WebsiteCDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) has released a new look for the Healthy Youth website. The new Healthy Youth website is now in a responsive web design, which means the content can be easily accessed via multiple devices, including smart phones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers. In addition, the website has been reorganized to […] Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
NACCHO Recognizes Local Health Departments for Infectious Disease Model and Promising PracticesNACCHO’s Model Practice and Promising Practice awards recognize local health departments’ innovative programs, resources, administrative practices, or tools that demonstrate exemplary and replicable qualities in response to a local public health need. A model practice meets the following criteria: local health department role, collaboration, innovation, responsiveness, and evaluation of both the... Sep 10, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
Oral Health to Enhance “Educational Readiness”For over 10 years, the DC Department of Health (DOH) has supported preventive oral health services for school-age children. Increasing tooth decay prevalence among younger children necessitated an early intervention approach. Although the Dental Officer implemented a "perinatal" strategy to decay prevention, the program needed an evaluation plan to measure the effectiveness of these efforts. Sep 09, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
Outbreak Communications GuideThe National Public Health Information Coalition has released the Outbreak Communications Guide to help public health communicators effectively manage communications during an outbreak. View the guide for suggestions and resources to guide communications before, during, and after an outbreak. Aug 25, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
WV Volunteer Dentists Develop Community Adult Treatment ProgramThe Smiles for Life Adult Screening and Referral Program provides a safety net for most needed dental treatment to low income adults in the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department (MOVHD) Region. Prior to its establishment there was not a public health program addressing adult oral health needs. The program demonstrates a true community partnership. Aug 19, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
NACCHO’s HPV Project Demonstration Site Highlighted for Prevention EffortsIn a Richmond Times-Dispatch article from August 9, Jim Farrell, who oversees the immunization division at the Virginia Department of Health, talked about what is being done in Virginia to increase adolescent vaccination rates. Farrell highlighted the work of the Prince William Health District, one of NACCHO’s ten HPV prevention project demonstration sites, to focus on physician... Aug 19, 2015 | Alyson Jordan |
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