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The State Health Policy portfolio includes an annual legislative prospectus series. These briefs summarize upcoming legislation proposals that impact public health across the states and territories.

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The Suicide, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool (SPACECAT) helps local, state, and territorial health agencies better understand their capacity to address suicide, overdose, and adverse ...

Public health is an ever-evolving field, and state and territorial agencies can evolve with it to meet emerging needs through conscientious performance management.

2016 Profile Survey Individual Agency Profiles View profile data for each state and territorial health agency with information published in the ASTHO Profile of State Public Health, Volume Four. Information is presented for all agencies ...

This report identifies and breaks down seven core value areas that emerge from taking a health in all policies approach to policymaking and programming.

This report examines how four states (Colorado, Michigan, North Dakota, and Rhode Island) made use of their Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant funding.

This report aims to highlight the unique vector-borne disease challenges faced by Island Areas and to dive into the key components of a mosquito control program, that are relevant to these unique jurisdictions.

This report analyzes the results from a survey of state and territorial health agency staff to collect information regarding health agency efforts to address climate change and extreme weather.

Social determinants of healthcare are the conditions in which people are born, live, work, play, worship, and age. Read how these issues affect population health.

This report includes two case studies capturing how states are building capacity to address the threat of insecticide resistance. The case studies and analyses in this report may serve as a guide as states respond to similar problems in ...

Given the emergence of mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika in the United States and U.S. territories, this, the second edition of this report, provides guidance to assist local, state, and territorial mosquito ...

The data provided in this report is one effort to identify the strengths and understand the complexities of water preparedness for state and territorial public health directors, and to examine opportunities for improvement in the future.

This report highlights six public health approaches for addressing the rising incidence of substance use disorder and neonatal abstinence syndrome and draws out the critical role that state health leaders play in each.

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Opioid Use Disorder Tool: Supporting the Public Health Response in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health California health officials and partner organizations piloted a toolkit on prevention strategies and community resources regarding ...

Policy & Advocacy Association of state and territorial health officials, astho, advocacy and policy, state and territorial health officials, public health agencies, federal government affairs, state health policy, public health policy, ...

The theme for 2019 National Preparedness Month is "Prepared, Not Scared" with an emphasis on encouraging parents, teachers, and caregivers to teach our youth what to do when a crisis occurs, and how we all can take preparedness ...

The Great American Smokeout has helped dramatically Americans’ attitudes about tobacco. However, there has been a dramatic rise in youth use of e-cigarettes. Is it time for a Great American Smoke- and Vape-Out?

Amber Williams highlights three key insights about the governmental public health workforce identified in the PH WINS 2017 data.