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Jurisdictions Seek to Modernize Vital Records Systems

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Iowa,

State issued documents, such as birth certificates, are often required to navigate daily life. Vital records policy is a complex and evolving issue with many of the processes and procedures left to jurisdictional policy-makers.

ASTHO Policy Watch 2022: Health Equity and Rural Health

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ASTHO has identified health equity and rural health as issues that policymakers across the country will consider in 2022.

Investing in Indiana’s Public Health Infrastructure Through Community-Driven Policy Change

Investing in Indiana’s Public Health Infrastructure Through Community-Driven Policy Change public health infrastructure, community driven policy, indiana state health commissioner, public health system, indiana department of health, ...

Linking Datasets to Address Racial Equity in Maternal and Child Health Outcomes

Linking Datasets to Address Racial Equity in Maternal and Child Health Outcomes astho, association of state and territorial health officials, data sources, people of color, centers for disease control, racial inequities, advance racial ...

Proposed Vaccination Laws to Watch in the New Year

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STIs,
HIV,
PFAS,

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century, as well as some of the most powerful and cost-effective tools to prevent disease, disparities, disability, and death among children and adults. The COVID-19 ...

Overcoming Common Barriers to Data Linkage

ASTHO, with support from CDC, launched the first cohort of the Linking Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and Clinical Outcomes Data Multi-Jurisdiction Learning Community in October 2021. This brief examines themes that emerged ...

Integrating Environmental Health and Electronic Health Information Using GIS Tools

ASTHO has been exploring how using GIS and data visualization tools can improve traditional public health work. This brief shares several expert use cases for visualizing and integrating environmental health and electronic health ...

Public Health Infrastructure Partners Launch National Implementation Center Program to Support Data Modernization 

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CDC-funded program will accelerate data exchange between healthcare and public health to drive timely, data-informed public health action

Advanced Grant Payments: Creating a More Equitable Public Health System

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Advanced Grant Payments: Creating a More Equitable Public Health System Advanced Grant Payments Promote Equity in Public Health Jignasa Jani, Ryan Rivera Learn how advanced grant payments can ensure smaller community-based organizations ...

From the Chief Medical Officer: What Needs to Change to Achieve Better Health Equity Metrics

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We can prepare for the future of health equity and data by ensuring the equitable collection of data and building systems that are flexible enough to account for forward progress.

2023 Legislative Session Update: Part Two

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Iowa,

A mid-session legislative update on five of ASTHO's top 10 public health state policy issues to watch in 2023: data privacy and modernization, reproductive health, health equity, strengthening public health agencies, and immunization.

Building an Island Health Equity Framework for the Future

Blog,
Guam,

This blog explains ASTHO’s Islands Health Equity Framework, which outlines a culturally resonant approach to health equity in the island areas.

Developing a Data Dashboard to Address Health Equity Concerns: Insights from Puerto Rico

This report shares Puerto Rico’s strategy and recommendations for developing a social determinants of health dashboard.

Jurisdictions Using Policy to Address Unique Island Area Health Challenges

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Guam,

ASTHO has several members from the territories and Freely Associated States—jurisdictions with unique challenges, and do not fall under the category of a state or federal district. This post is a brief look at some of the public health ...

What Gets Measured Gets Done: Using Data to Improve Child Health and Well-Being

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ACEs,

The adage “what gets measured, gets done” has had staying power for a reason. When we can accurately describe conditions, quantify impact, and elucidate connections, we have a better chance at taking collective (and effective) action to ...

The Seven Biggest Public Health Policy Issues on the Hill in 2020

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As a truly historic year comes to an end, many public health policy issues received a considerable amount of attention in 2020. Subjects such as the pandemic that will live on in infamy, racial health disparities, and the future of the ...

STD Awareness Month Highlights a Rise in Rates for Sixth Straight Year

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HIV,
Blog,

Though COVID-19 has dominated public health over the past year, other communicable diseases are still occurring at troubling rates. The CDC recently released data in their Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2019 report, showing ...