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ASTHO’s Most Popular Resources of 2024

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Data Modernization and Informatics,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Infectious Disease,
Population Health and Prevention,
Social and Behavioral Health,
Firearm Injury and Violence Prevention,
Injury and Violence Prevention,
Policy,
Mental Health,
Suicide Prevention

ASTHO’s Most Popular Resources of 2024 Taylor Francis For the last 82 years, ASTHO has worked diligently to support public health leaders and improve the health of our communities. We remain committed to doing so, through capacity ...

Likely Public Health Legislative Trends for 2025

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Health Policy Update,
Policy,
State Health Policy,
Public Health Workforce,
Population Health and Prevention,
Women, Infant, and Family Health,
Social and Behavioral Health,
Substance Misuse,
Opioids,
Overdose Prevention,
Infectious Disease,
Data Modernization and Informatics,
Maggie Davis

Likely Public Health Legislative Trends for 2025 Prospective Public Health Legislative Trends for 2025 Maggie Davis Get an inside look at prospective public health legislative trends for 2025, based on ASTHO's legislative tracking ...

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: State Considerations for 2021

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Health Policy Update,
Population Health and Prevention,
Women, Infant, and Family Health,
Risk-Appropriate Care,
Social and Behavioral Health,
Substance Misuse,
Opioids,
Overdose Prevention,
Policy,
State Health Policy,
Early Brain Development,
Delaware,
Massachusetts,
New Hampshire,
New York,
Oklahoma,
Beth Giambrone,
Health Care Access,
Federal Government Affairs,
Data Modernization and Informatics,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) has become more prevalent in the United States, with the hospitalization rate increasing from 2.9 to 7.3 hospitalizations per 1,000 newborn births between 2009 and 2017. NAS occurs in newborns who ...

2023 Legislative Session Update: Part Two

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Health Policy Update,
Policy,
State Health Policy,
Public Health Law,
Population Health and Prevention,
Women, Infant, and Family Health,
Contraception Access,
Women, Infant, Family Health Data Integration,
Data Modernization and Informatics,
Health Equity,
Infectious Disease,
Immunization,
Public Health Workforce,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
California,
Connecticut,
Indiana,
Iowa,
Maine,
Maryland,
Massachusetts,
Missouri,
Montana,
New Jersey,
New York,
Oklahoma,
Rhode Island,
Texas,
Vermont,
Washington,
Maggie Davis,
Andy Baker-White,
Lillian Colasurdo,
Lana McKinney

A mid-session legislative update on five of ASTHO's top 10 public health state policy issues to watch in 2023: data privacy and modernization, reproductive health, health equity, strengthening public health agencies, and immunization.

Jurisdictions Using Policy to Address Unique Island Area Health Challenges

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Health Policy Update,
Environmental Health,
Climate and Health,
Food and Water Safety,
Health Equity,
Elimination of Disparities,
Social Determinants of Health,
Infectious Disease,
COVID-19,
Policy,
Territorial Health Policy,
Preparedness,
Natural Disasters,
Federal Government Affairs,
Territories and Freely Associated States,
Data Modernization and Informatics,
American Samoa,
Federated States of Micronesia,
Guam,
Marshall Islands,
Northern Mariana Islands,
Puerto Rico,
Virgin Islands,
Beth Giambrone,
Parker Beene

ASTHO has several members from the territories and Freely Associated States—jurisdictions with unique challenges, and do not fall under the category of a state or federal district. This post is a brief look at some of the public health ...

The Seven Biggest Public Health Policy Issues on the Hill in 2020

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Health Policy Update,
Policy,
Federal Government Affairs,
Preparedness,
Pandemics,
Emergency Powers,
Public Health Law,
Infectious Disease,
COVID-19,
COVID and Law/Policy,
Population Health and Prevention,
Social and Behavioral Health,
Tobacco Control,
Data Modernization and Informatics,
Health Equity,
Race and Public Health,
Funding,
Health Care Access,
Jeffrey O. Ekoma

As a truly historic year comes to an end, many public health policy issues received a considerable amount of attention in 2020. Subjects such as the pandemic that will live on in infamy, racial health disparities, and the future of the ...

What Gets Measured Gets Done: Using Data to Improve Child Health and Well-Being

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Health Equity,
Data Modernization and Informatics,
Partnership,
Policy,
Research,
Public Health Law,
Population Health and Prevention,
Women, Infant, and Family Health,
ACEs,
Reem Ghandour,
Health Care Access,
At-Risk Populations,
Early Brain Development,
Women, Infant, Family Health Data Integration,
Disability Inclusion,
Infant and Child Health,
Data and Disability Inclusion

The adage “what gets measured, gets done” has had staying power for a reason. When we can accurately describe conditions, quantify impact, and elucidate connections, we have a better chance at taking collective (and effective) action to ...

Policy Options to Improve Data Sharing Between State and Local Health Departments

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Data Modernization and Informatics,
Policy,
Public Health Law,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
State Health Policy,
Erik Skinner,
Christina Severin,
Reema Mistry,
Andy Baker-White,
Sara Black,
Elizabeth Ruebush,
Carrie Waggoner,
Partnership

Policy Options to Improve Data Sharing Between State and Local Health Departments Organizational policies on data sharing between state and local public health agencies. This report explores organizational policies related to data sharing ...

Legal Mapping of Harm Reduction Laws and Overdose Prevention Center Legislation

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Policy,
State Health Policy,
Data Modernization and Informatics,
Population Health and Prevention,
Social and Behavioral Health,
Substance Misuse,
Opioids,
Overdose Prevention,
Injury and Violence Prevention,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement

This ASTHOReport highlights the public health importance of three harm reduction policies and practices to reduce overdoses: facilitating community distribution of naloxone, facilitating community distribution of fentanyl test strips, and ...

Public Health Data Disclosure or Request Readiness Assessment

Data Modernization and Informatics,
Policy,
State Health Policy,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Public Health Infrastructure Grant,
Grants and Contracts Management,
Chris Alibrandi O’Connor,
Resource,
Capacity Building

Public Health Data Disclosure or Request Readiness Assessment Chris Alibrandi O’Connor Explore key steps and lessons for effective public health data sharing. Organizations that want to share or request data to support public health work ...

Sustaining DMI: Medicaid Advanced Planning Document Process

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Population Health and Prevention,
Health Care Access,
Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships,
Data Modernization and Informatics,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement,
Funding,
Policy,
Federal Government Affairs,
Medicaid Sustainable Financing of DMI,
Alabama,
Arizona,
Florida,
Hawaii,
Wyoming

Sustaining DMI: Medicaid Advanced Planning Document Process How state Medicaid agencies can request enhanced federal funding for Medicaid Enterprise Systems and related activities. Why is the Advanced Planning Document process important? ...

ASTHO’s 2024 Legislative Session Update: Part One

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Policy,
Health Policy Update,
State Health Policy,
Health Equity,
Environmental Health,
Population Health and Prevention,
Social and Behavioral Health,
Substance Misuse,
Overdose Prevention,
STIs,
Women, Infant, and Family Health,
Infant and Child Health,
Data Modernization and Informatics,
Arizona,
California,
Colorado,
Delaware,
Florida,
Georgia,
Hawaii,
Maine,
Maryland,
Missouri,
New Hampshire,
New Jersey,
New Mexico,
New York,
Oklahoma,
Tennessee,
Virginia,
Wisconsin,
JoAnne Deehr,
Lana McKinney,
Lillian Colasurdo,
Maggie Davis

ASTHO’s 2024 Legislative Session Update: Part One legislative session, state policy, data collection, domestic violence, health information exchange, data privacy, substance misuse, overdose prevention, sexually transmitted infections, ...

The New Frontier of Digital Proximity Tracing

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Health Policy Update,
Policy,
State Health Policy,
Federal Government Affairs,
Infectious Disease,
COVID-19,
COVID and Contact Tracing/Disease Intervention,
Data Modernization and Informatics,
California,
New York,
North Dakota,
South Dakota,
Jeffrey O. Ekoma,
New Jersey,
Washington,
Partnership

The New Frontier of Digital Proximity Tracing Association of state and territorial health officials, astho, public health, covid-19, contact tracing, case investigation, public health surveillance, infectious disease, proximity tracing, ...

States Assessing and Mitigating Risks of Agencies Using Artificial Intelligence

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Policy,
Advocacy,
Health Policy Update,
State Health Policy,
Public Health Workforce,
Health Equity,
Disability Inclusion,
Texas,
Maine,
Maryland,
Arizona,
California,
Connecticut,
North Dakota,
Alaska,
Indiana,
Oklahoma,
New Jersey,
New York,
Data Modernization and Informatics,
Maggie Davis,
Beth Giambrone,
Greg Papillon,
Topics,
Data Management/Systems,
Improving Disability Inclusion

States Assessing and Mitigating Risks of Agencies Using Artificial Intelligence artificial intelligence, machine learning, drug overdose deaths, privacy protections, chatbot technology, department of technology, societal biases, artificial ...