Learn how California and Rhode Island are using health equity and environmental justice to enhance their public health responses to natural disasters and climate change.
Polysubstance Use During Pregnancy and the Benefits of Universal Verbal Screening polysubstance use, universal verbal screening, health equity, polysubstance use during pregnancy, public health, substance use disorder, health problems, ...
This blog post explores the impact of mpox, state health agency response, and the way forward.
Closing remarks by ASTHO’s senior vice president of health initiatives, Kimberlee Wyche Etheridge, at the 2023 Health Equity Summit.
Linking Datasets to Address Racial Equity in Maternal and Child Health Outcomes astho, association of state and territorial health officials, data sources, people of color, centers for disease control, racial inequities, advance racial ...
Insurer-sponsored community health worker programs can address health plan members' SDOH needs. Learn how, from literature scan and focus group interview results.
This product identifies strategies for preventing ACEs, the role of public health in ACEs across levels of government, and policy development strategies to inform ACEs prevention.
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.
This resource provides strategies to incorporate health equity in overdose prevention programs.
This episode highlights ASTHO’s President’s Challenge, “Building Health and Resilient Communities,” which is a multi-year campaign that calls on state, territorial, local, and tribal health officials to align strategic investments and ...
ASTHO Launches National Campaign to Support Healthy Communities, Aligning with NACCHO and the U.S. Surgeon General ARLINGTON, VA—The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) announced this week the launch of a ...
ASTHO CEO Michael Fraser reacts to the racially-motivated shooting in Buffalo and discusses how ASTHO is working to counter systemic racism with diversity, equity, and inclusiveness.
Tobacco control has been a public health success in states across the nation, but there is still work to be done, especially surrounding the popularity of menthol and other types of flavored tobacco.
States Support Postpartum Health with Medicaid Expansions astho, association of state and territorial health officials, 2023 state legislative session, medicaid expansions, postpartum health, the consolidated appropriations act, national ...
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.
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.
This blog shares key takeaways from the first Island Areas COVID-19 Health Equity Action Institutes.
How the Washington State Department of Health worked with communities to amend rulemaking processes using a health equity lens to reduce disparities.
Community design strategies that increase the availability of safe and accessible outdoor spaces create more physical activity opportunities for people of all abilities.
In recognition of American Heart Month, this episode focuses on the important role that community health workers (CHWs) play in Virginia’s statewide approach to addressing health disparities and heart disease, in particular.