The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted youth mental health, particularly as a result of school closures, social isolation, family economic hardship, fear of family loss or illness, and reduced ...
This report analyzes way that public health officials can mitigate the impact of disasters on pregnant people, neonates, and infants through a variety of policies, including policies related to ...
Building a Culture of Care: Leadership in Public Health Agencies astho, association of state and territorial health officials, association of state and territorial health officials astho, state ...
There are significant disparities in pregnancy-related outcomes in the United States. Many of these deaths considered preventable, so state and federal policy makers are taking steps to improve ...
While COVID-19 is still present and ever-changing, public health professionals must also grapple with new challenges such as monkeypox, increasing firearm homicide, and widespread heat waves. In the ...
ASTHO spoke with Denise Octavia Smith, the inaugural executive director of the National Association of Community Health Workers, about the critical work community health workers are doing and her ...
Learn about how Louisiana’s perinatal quality collaborative is caring for pregnant and postpartum people with substance use disorder by reducing stigma and radical collaboration.
States have identified different strategies to implement healthy eating approaches and reduce obesity at the school and community levels, as well as through food labeling at grocery stores and food ...
ASTHO engaged Oklahoma public health officials, members of the Oklahoma Harm Reduction Alliance, Health Minds Policy Initiative, and representatives of the Southern Plains Tribal Health Board, and ...
The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for an existing behavioral health resource—the Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center’s Crisis Hotline—to become a household name. During the ...
Webinar attendees learn about the review process, strategies for moving Maternal Mortality Review Committees data to action, and hear an example of how the state of Texas took recommendations and ...
ASTHO sponsored a June 2022 special issue of the American Journal of Public Health on equitable and accessible contraception access.
Braiding and Layering Funding to Address Housing and Food Insecurity The intersections of social determinants of health (SDOH) and their impact on the health of individuals and communities has been ...
This video post highlights the Colorado National Collaborative, an innovative collaborative framework that is improving suicide and overdose prevention efforts in Colorado, and how a similar approach ...
Maine launched an innovative initiative focused on improving future health outcomes for youth by helping them connect to their communities and reminding them that that they matter.
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 ...
People exposed to adverse childhood experiences are at risk for negative physical and/or mental health outcomes, substance use disorders, and unfavorable social outcomes in adulthood. One known risk ...
In the spring of 2022, ASTHO’s island area members convened at the first island-focused COVID-19 Health Equity Action Institutes and asked each other what creating an equitable and sustainable public ...
This brief analyzes the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention to participation in the Suicide and Opioid Overdose Prevention ...
When the COVID-19 pandemic began the need for greater access to virtual reproductive healthcare services increased dramatically. Telehealth increased access to providers, eased workflows and ...