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Melissa C. Lyon, MPH, leads Pennsylvania’s Erie County Department of Health as Public Health Director. While earning her Master’s in...
Jan 09, 2020 | George Roberts
Boone County Health Department (BCHD) has been leading an interdisciplinary team to embark on a mission to gain a comprehensive...
Nov 20, 2019 | Andrea Grenadier
Since September 2018, 898 mumps cases were reported among detainees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities...
Aug 29, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Immunization data have revealed significant gaps in vaccination coverage among adolescents, especially those 16-to-18 years of age....
Oct 10, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Education is the first step to understanding the social determinants of health and making on impact on health outcomes. Our team...
Sep 26, 2018 | Alyson Jordan
Live Well Madera County’s Community Health Improvement Plan goals will focus exclusively on upstream preventative intervention. In...
Visitors to Yosemite National Park might have seen her ⎯ a young woman working as a housekeeper at one of the hotels catering to the...
Every weekday around noon, local residents, workers, high school students, and visitors to Mariposa County head to the parking areas...
This Million Hearts® demonstration project utilizes community health workers to create a culture of health within the City of Phoenix,...
Melissa C. Lyon, MPH, leads Pennsylvania’s Erie County Department of Health as Public Health Director. While earning her Master’s in Public Health, Ms. Lyon worked as a site manager for Great Lakes Medical Research, a clinical research site located in Westfield, NY.
Boone County Health Department (BCHD) has been leading an interdisciplinary team to embark on a mission to gain a comprehensive understanding of their surrounding workforce and to facilitate a path towards creating healthier work environments.
Since September 2018, 898 mumps cases were reported among detainees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities across 18 states. Tri-County Health Department (CO) managed a mumps outbreak at a contract ICE Processing Center in Aurora, Colorado. In under one week, the facility completed universal MMR vaccination for detainees; mumps transmission ceased twelve days later.
Immunization data have revealed significant gaps in vaccination coverage among adolescents, especially those 16-to-18 years of age. There is a significant need to ensure that these adolescents receive timely immunization to prevent the threat of significant health consequences. To support this effort, the Adolescent Immunization Initiative (AII) was formed to establish an immunization platform...
Education is the first step to understanding the social determinants of health and making on impact on health outcomes. Our team developed a presentation to take to professionals and key stakeholders in our community to demonstrate and provide tools to identify and subsequently address the social determinants of health.
Live Well Madera County’s Community Health Improvement Plan goals will focus exclusively on upstream preventative intervention. In addition to CHIP goals to address the two strategic priorities, diabetes and obesity and child abuse and neglect, the over 25 Live Well partners agreed the CHIP will incorporate Health in All Policies approaches in their agency practices.
Visitors to Yosemite National Park might have seen her ⎯ a young woman working as a housekeeper at one of the hotels catering to the thousands of tourists who stream through Mariposa County every year.
Every weekday around noon, local residents, workers, high school students, and visitors to Mariposa County head to the parking areas near the Mariposa History Museum in search of their favorite street food. The local food truck culture attracts people of all ages and walks of life, drawn by the aromas of two taco trucks and a hamburger joint on wheels.
This Million Hearts® demonstration project utilizes community health workers to create a culture of health within the City of Phoenix, public housing properties. The Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH), implemented the “Improve ABCS” and "Increase Physical Activity" strategies during this Million Hearts® demonstration period, to empower residents of public housing to improve their...
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