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These customizable factsheets were designed to show the impact of STD program funding on disease burden and associated medical costs.
This ASTHOReport explores innovative programs and policies implemented by health departments in an effort to adopt systemwide approaches to achieving health equity.
This ASTHOBrief describes how Pennsylvania and Virginia advanced regulatory measures to address substance use disorder prevention and treatment with a focus on opioid prescribing practices and provider education.
Listen to ASTHO's Advancing Cognitive Well-Being Through the Healthy Brain Initiative Road Map podcast to hear from healthy aging experts at CDC and the Alzheimer’s Association, as well as Jewel Mullen (alumna-CT), former president of ASTHO, who explains how state and territorial health departments can work with the public health community to support optimal cognitive health and well-being.
This ASTHOBrief examines how several jurisdictions structured their Tobacco 21 laws, including differences in the provisions related to penalties, enforcement, and age-related exemptions.
This ASTHOReport is an updated second edition of this guide and is intended to help public health and vector control professionals advance mosquito control efforts.
Region I and II state and territorial health officials developed this resource on opioid prevention and treatment best practices. This report is the culmination of a year-long multidisciplinary committee, chaired by Monica Bharel (SHO-MA), working with ASTHO as part of the 2017-2018 President’s Challenge.
Learn more about the 2019 ASTHO President's Challenge and how you can help play a major role in building healthy communities.
A yearly initiative of ASTHO to improve population health through the work of state public health agencies.
Join your colleagues and participate in various discussion topics on my.ASTHO, ASTHO's collaboration and discussion platform. ASTHO members can access the platform here.
The Intersection of Health and Housing: CMS’s Potential Medicaid Investments
Emerging evidence indicates that affordable, safe, and stable housing directly impacts an individual’s health and wellbeing, including the ability to manage chronic diseases and mental conditions, maintain personal hygiene, access education and employment, and build healthy relationships. Individuals experiencing homelessness face illness at three to six times the rate of housed individuals and are three to four times more likely to prematurely die than the general population. Furthermore, conditions like asthma can be exacerbated by poorly maintained housing conditions, and neighborhood conditions can inhibit an individual’s ability to support a healthy lifestyle.
State Legislation Addressing Antibiotic Resistance
Earlier this month, the public health community participated in World Antibiotic Awareness Week, aimed at increasing awareness of antibiotic resistance and encouraging best practices among the public, health workers, and policy makers. Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria or fungi change in response to the use of medicines and develop the ability to defeat the drugs meant to kill them. Bacteria, not humans, become antibiotic resistant. These resistant bacteria then infect humans, often requiring extended hospital stays, doctor visits, and costly and toxic treatment alternatives. According to the CDC, at least two million people each year in the United States will get an antibiotic-resistant infection, and at least 23,000 people die.
Leadership Conversation with ChangeLab Solutions Founder and CEO Marice Ashe
Marice Ashe is founder and CEO of ChangeLab Solutions. ASTHO spoke with Ashe about her advice for states and territories working to build healthier, more resilient communities to advance health equity.
Dec 12-13, 2018
Marriott Century Center Hotel
Dec 12, 2018
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET
Dec 13, 2018
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET