Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
ASTHO works with key partners to support state and territorial health agencies in their role as key leaders in helping citizens prevent heart attacks and strokes.
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Partnering to Expand Adolescent Access to School Health Services
This episode spotlights effective school-based initiatives and shares actionable strategies from Illinois that other communities can replicate.
ASTHO Statement on Biden Administration Designating Fentanyl Combined with Xylazine as an Emerging Threat to the United States
News,
On April 12, 2023, ASTHO released a statement applauding the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s announcement designating fentanyl adulterated or associated with xylazine as an emerging drug threat to the United States.
State Strategies for Advancing Viral Hepatitis Elimination
Iowa,
State Strategies for Advancing Viral Hepatitis Elimination astho, association of state and territorial health officials, public health officials, state health officials, territorial health officials, state health department, population ...
Primary Care and Public Health
Primary care practitioners are important allies for public health agencies, and ASTHO provides a portfolio of resources to help reinforce that critical relationship.
Trusted Contacts Training Modules
Training modules detail what it means to be a state trusted contact for ORRP and provide background for state trusted contacts to better prepare for, and respond to, disruptions in access to opioid prescriptions.
Project ECHO: Overdose Fatality Investigation Techniques (OD-FIT)
Project ECHO: Overdose Fatality Investigation Techniques (OD-FIT) Project ECHO: Overdose Fatality Investigation Techniques (OD-FIT) provides coroners, medical examiners, toxicologists, forensic pathologists, and public health personnel ...
The Role of Peer Support in Federally Qualified Health Centers
This brief discusses what peer support is, how it is financed, and how incorporating peer support services into federally qualified health centers can be an especially successful strategy for delivering care to safety-net populations.
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 ...
Community Partners Offer Key Insights to Health Departments for Increasing Vaccine Confidence
During the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy has increased because of misinformation and disinformation spreading across social and traditional media platforms, targeting vulnerable and underserved communities, and further stalling ...
The Rise of Primary Care Transformation: State and Territorial Primary Care Offices Play A Key Role
This brief discusses the roles state primary care offices (PCOs) have in addressing primary care transformation.
Communicating Public Health Guidance to Cases and Contacts: Recommendations for COVID-19 Case Investigators and Contact Tracers
The fear, uncertainty, and trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have affected how individuals interpret public health messages. With this in mind, this brief outlines recommendations for case investigators and contact tracers to consider ...
Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
Information and resources regarding PRAMS, an ongoing, site-specific, population-based surveillance project.
Systems Change Approaches for Engaging Families in Hypertension Control
Utah,
This brief explores how state and territorial health agencies can engage people who provide social support for individuals and families with hypertension.
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 ...
What Surrounds Us Shapes Our Health
ACEs,
What Surrounds Us Shapes Our Health caregiver stress, traumatic childhood experiences, secondary prevention, tertiary prevention, child abuse, physical health, supporting services, healthier neighborhoods, mental health, primary ...
State/Territorial Policy Considerations for Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences
ACEs,
Ohio,
ASTHO staff identified a range of evidence-supported policies considered by state legislatures that could prevent ACEs. This report synthesizes these research and policy proposals and is intended for public health practitioners and ...
A Framework for Linking PRAMS with Administrative Data
A Framework for Linking PRAMS with Administrative Data ASTHO, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, prams frameworks, prams data, PRAMS, administrative data, data linkages, pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system ...
Prioritizing Economic Support Policies to Prevent ACEs and Promote Public Health
ACEs,
Prioritizing Economic Support Policies to Prevent ACEs and Promote Public Health Prioritizing Economic Support Policies to Prevent ACEs Explore economic support policy options to prevent ACEs and promote public health in your jurisdiction. ...
Sustaining DMI: A State Health Official’s Guide to Enhanced Funding
Sustaining DMI: A State Health Official’s Guide to Enhanced Funding Sustainable financing strategies for state health officials to support data modernization and Medicaid. What is the relationship between a state’s Medicaid program and its ...