Advancing Health Equity in the Overdose Crisis Response
This resource provides strategies to incorporate health equity in overdose prevention programs.
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Community Power Building Helps to Address Social and Structural Determinants of Health
Blog,
Explore the transformative power of community engagement and community power building in public health research, and learn how these initiatives can enhance racial and health equity. Discover strategies for addressing structural ...
States Increasing Supports for Early Childhood Programs
Blog,
Utah,
Looking to the future, states are improving access to care, providing subsidies for tuition costs, expanding hours of licensed facilities, increasing access, and meeting the needs of both parents and children.
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 ...
Impacting Social Determinants of Health Through Managed Care Contracts
Impacting Social Determinants of Health Through Managed Care Contracts astho, association of state and territorial health officials, state health, public health, public health officials, territorial health, social determinants of health, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Addressing Equity Challenges Using a Health in All Policies Approach
This brief highlights how both states are using the Health in All Policies framework to address systemic racism and social inequity between populations of different racial and ethnic groups.
Integrating Breastfeeding Into Early Childhood Nutrition Security Programs
Blog,
Breastfeeding is a key protective factor against infant and toddler nutrition insecurity and is the ideal source of nutrition for most infants, since it adapts to each child’s unique nutritional needs.
Normalizing Atonement: Implications for Public Health Policy, Practice, Education, and Training
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As we work to close the chasm on racial differences in health outcomes and improve health for all, it is important to pause and take inventory of more than 400 years of policies, practices, and events that created an unlevel playing ground ...
A World AIDS Day Unlike Any Other: Resiliency During the COVID-19 Pandemic
STIs,
HIV,
Blog,
With the COVID-19 pandemic in full force, health agencies are ensuring that their focus does not drift from the fight to end the HIV epidemic. Resiliency is key to continue to make progress in this decades-long fight.
A New Approach to Breaking the Cycle: Creating a Shift in Emergency Medical Services to Address Substance Use Disorder
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If EMS can change the perception of patients with Substance Use Disorder, they will see that building rapport and encouraging the patient to seek help from resources they provide can be mutually beneficial. For EMS, it reduces the call ...
Transformational Leadership: A Vaccine for Rural Healthcare Delivery
Blog,
During the early spread of COVID-19, the National Rural Health Association senior vice president Brock Slabach stated: “Before the pandemic, rural hospitals were struggling for survival. COVID-19 has put a spotlight on the fractures that ...
Changes to School Nutrition Programs Helping Curb Pandemic-Related Impacts
Blog,
The National School Lunch Program, a federally-assisted meal program run by USDA, has provided millions of children with nutritionally balanced, low-cost or no-cost lunches each school day.
Leading Health Equity in a Time of Upheaval
Blog,
As a lifelong public health professional, I am troubled by the opportunities I missed to better address racial injustice. We must used this moment to refresh, to listen and learn from each other. If we are who we say we are, and if we are ...
How the U.S. Virgin Islands is Improving Federal Grants Management
Blog,
How the U.S. Virgin Islands is Improving Federal Grants Management astho, association of state and territorial health officials, public health, grant programs, grant management, overall health, health system, improving health, social ...
Public Health and Housing Partnerships: Lessons from New York and Rhode Island
Blog,
The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated and kept public health top of mind world-wide. One issue highlighted by the pandemic that has been keenly felt in New York State and Rhode Island is housing policy.
What Surrounds Us Shapes Our Health—Look to Primary Prevention for Better Health
Blog,
ACEs,
Community members and policymakers that want to prevent suicides, overdoses, and adverse childhood experiences can choose to intervene at different levels.
Fostering Equitable Change During COVID-19
On this episode, speakers will address both issues and highlight the importance of public health agencies leading with and integrating equity in their COVID-19 response. We hear from three leaders managing their COVID-19 response by ...
ASTHO Urges Increased Investment to Address Growing Obesity Epidemic
News,
ASTHO Urges Increased Investment to Address Growing Obesity Epidemic ARLINGTON, VA—Obesity rates in the United States are on the rise, according to new reports from CDC and Trust for America’s Health. The number of states ...