This brief dives into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ability of people with disabilities to access vital health care services during the public health emergency.
Disease Forecasting and Modeling Data for Public Health Action Disease Forecasting Benefits Public Health Planning Disease forecasting and modeling help prepare public health departments for future infectious disease outbreaks and ...
Advancing Health Equity Science Implementation in Health Departments Health Equity Science, Public Health Action, Data Modernization, Community Partnerships, Health Equity Evaluation, improve health, health care, community based, data ...
The Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program includes seven exercise types that are either discussion-based or operations-based.
Policy Approaches to Improve State and Local Data Sharing Health officials can pursue organizational policies across key priority areas to advance state and local data sharing. Learn about these policy approaches. Several factors impact ...
This brief focuses on how telehealth expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased access to care for pregnant and postpartum women, and made maternal and child health care services like doulas and midwives more accessible.
Opioid and substance use disorders (SUD) continue to affect families beyond pregnancy; in 2017, about one in eight U.S. children lived in a household where at least one parent had a SUD in the prior year.
Increasing tobacco taxes in states is an effective method for encouraging cessation among youth. This brief outlines leading tobacco taxation strategies implemented by New York state, Washington, D.C., and Connecticut.
This issue brief addresses these recommendations and tells state and territorial health agencies what to expect during the transition from Healthy People 2020 to Healthy People 2030.
In February 2019, ASTHO surveyed its members to understand how data is being utilized to address these harms in their jurisdictions. This brief summarizes the results of this survey and highlights data-based approaches used to address four ...
ASTHO pledges to help public health agencies promote health equity and achieve optimal health for all by addressing inequities like structural racism.
Food and Water Safety association of state and territorial health officials, astho, food and water safety, food safety, water safety, water preparedness, environmental public health, pfas, per and polyfluoroalkyl substances, pfas ...
Tribal Health association of state and territorial health officials, astho, tribal health, American Indian, Alaska native, ai/an, ai/an communities, high quality public health services, state health departments, tribal health liaisons, ...
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 ...
Public health agencies share a special partnership with Medicaid, which can be utilized to increase access to care and promote health equity.
Medicaid Data Sharing and Analysis Leveraging Medicaid Partnerships and Policies Learn about tactical areas for leveraging Medicaid partnerships and policies to achieve optimal health for all. Sharing Medicaid data with 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.
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.
Public health departments work to prepare for any kind of threat to the public’s wellbeing, including the potential for nuclear and radiation emergencies.
ASTHO's Public Health & Crisis Communications Resource Hub offers trainings, toolkits, and strategies to enhance crisis communication skills.