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Jurisdictions Moving Many ASTHO Essential Tobacco Control Policies Forward

Blog,
Health Policy Update,
Policy,
State Health Policy,
Population Health and Prevention,
Social and Behavioral Health,
Tobacco Control,
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Improvement,
Health Equity,
Elimination of Disparities,
Alaska,
American Samoa,
California,
Florida,
Georgia,
Guam,
Hawaii,
Illinois,
Iowa,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Maryland,
Massachusetts,
Mississippi,
Nebraska,
New Jersey,
New Mexico,
New York,
Northern Mariana Islands,
Oregon,
Puerto Rico,
Rhode Island,
Tennessee,
Virgin Islands,
Washington,
Washington, D.C.,
West Virginia,
Wisconsin,
Joshua Berry,
Ann Abraham,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Evidence or Fact-Based Measures

Over the past several years, states and jurisdictions have continued to implement important policies to reduce tobacco and nicotine use, including increasing tobacco prices, expanding areas deemed “smoke-free,” limiting the sale of ...

Avoiding the Cliff: Financing Medicaid in the Territories

Podcast,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Members,
Health Equity,
Population Health and Prevention,
Health Care Access,
Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships,
Funding,
Policy,
Federal Government Affairs,
Territorial Health Policy,
Puerto Rico,
Virgin Islands,
Robert Johnson,
Jorge Galva,
Justa Encarnacion,
Karl Ensign,
Public Health Review

Medicaid plays a critical role in providing access to health services for low-income U.S. citizens in the five U.S. territories. However, Medicaid financing in the territories has been underfunded compared to states. In this episode, ...

Supporting Community Health Workers in Territories and Freely Associated States

Report,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Population Health and Prevention,
Health Care Access,
Community Health Workers,
Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships,
Public Health Workforce,
California,
Guam,
Hawaii,
Kentucky,
Marshall Islands,
Massachusetts,
New Mexico,
Northern Mariana Islands,
Rhode Island,
Virgin Islands

Learn how territorial and freely associated state health agencies can support community health workers and their vital work in this brief.

Including Island Areas in Federal Public Health Datasets

Report,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Health Equity,
American Samoa,
Federated States of Micronesia,
Guam,
Marshall Islands,
Northern Mariana Islands,
Palau,
Puerto Rico,
Virgin Islands,
Island Areas Workgroup

Collecting and sharing data are crucially important to improving health equity, because those datasets inform effective policymaking. Despite having some of the most challenging population health outcomes, the U.S. island areas are often ...

Establishing an Office of Health Equity or Minority Health

Report,
Health Equity,
Operationalizing Equity,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Funding,
California,
Michigan,
Nebraska,
Nevada,
New Jersey,
New York,
Ohio,
Vermont,
Washington,
Territories and Freely Associated States

Establishing an Office of Health Equity or Minority Health Learn how to establish, structure, and fund a health equity or minority health office. A dedicated office of health equity or minority health can provide a focus on cross-cutting ...

Centralizing Administrative Functions, with Lessons Learned from Guam

Brief,
Topics,
Leadership,
Public Health Workforce,
Guam,
Island Areas 101,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Megan Drake-Pereyra,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
STAR Center

Centralizing Administrative Functions, with Lessons Learned from Guam Megan Drake-Pereyra Centralizing administrative functions, such as procurement or grants management, is a strategy many organizations utilize. Having administrative ...

Hearing the Hill

Blog,
Health Policy Update,
Policy,
Federal Government Affairs,
Health Equity,
Infectious Disease,
COVID-19,
COVID and Capacity,
COVID and Community Mitigation,
COVID and Funding,
COVID and Law/Policy,
COVID Preparedness,
COVID Recovery,
COVID and Workforce,
Population Health and Prevention,
Social and Behavioral Health,
Substance Misuse,
Opioids,
Funding,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Devon Page

Hearing the Hill astho, association of state and territorial health officials, opioid crisis, covid-19 funds, public health, public health data and workforce, american rescue plan, promoting health, drug overdose death, coronavirus ...

State and Territorial Health Leaders Convene on Capitol Hill to Advocate for Sustained Funding

News Release,
News,
ASTHO Member News,
ASTHO News,
Policy,
Federal Government Affairs,
Funding,
Advocacy,
State Health Policy,
Territorial Health Policy,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Members,
Esther L. Muña,
Joseph Kanter

State and Territorial Health Leaders Convene on Capitol Hill to Advocate for Sustained Funding ARLINGTON, VA—The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) leadership and public health officials will gather in ...

Business Process Improvement: A Territorial Public Health Agency Perspective

Blog,
People of Public Health,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Business Process Improvement,
Preparedness,
Natural Disasters,
Puerto Rico,
Catherine de la Cruz-Duran

Catherine de la Cruz-Duran, Puerto Rico's territorial health official designee, explains how the island worked after Hurricane Maria to rebuild and improve its infrastructure and processes to better recover from future natural ...

Embedded: Puerto Rico’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness Academy

Blog,
People of Public Health,
Health Equity,
Preparedness,
Pandemics,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Puerto Rico,
Beatriz Vallejo,
Haley Burrous,
Disability Inclusion,
Series,
Embedded

When Beatriz Vallejo, the disability and preparedness specialist in Puerto Rico, first joined the health agency, she took on planning a novel program to share knowledge and clarify each sectors’ roles and responsibilities during an ...

Leveraging Health Official Authority and Influence for Systems Improvement

Brief,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Business Process Improvement,
Strategic Planning,
Quality Improvement,
Leadership and Workforce Development,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Public Health Workforce,
Members,
Federated States of Micronesia,
Palau,
Vita Skilling,
Stevenson Kuartei

This brief draws on health officials’ experiences in territories and Freely Associated States to illustrate opportunities to lead improvement efforts by building relationships, committing to data use, establishing regular communication, ...

Strengthening Grant Management Functions in Puerto Rico

Brief,
Infographic,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Grants and Contracts Management,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
STAR Center,
Funding,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Puerto Rico

Strengthening Grant Management Functions in Puerto Rico ASTHO | Toolkit helps to optimize grant activities and funds in Puerto Rico The Grants Management Office Structure Optimization Toolkit helps to assess a health department's ...