This brief describes how the New Mexico Department of Health has enhanced its harm reduction program to provide an evidence-based comprehensive care model to support the health of people who use drugs. New Mexico’s success in leveraging ...
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 brief highlights legislative actions that states are taking to remove financial burdens for women who struggle to afford period products and mitigate existing stigma.
This brief spotlights the critical role that international medical graduates play in minimizing forensic pathology workforce shortages, highlights some of the bottlenecks and limitations of the visa process, and examines considerations for ...
An ASTHO brief on the importance of understanding moral injury and burnout, with recommendations on areas of organizational focus.
The Florida Department of Health created an effective algorithm to automate syphilis laboratory result processing that improves case assignment accuracy and prioritization. This tool outlines key steps and considerations for jurisdictions ...
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 ...
Board-certified forensic pathologists play a critical role in public health by investigating death so as to better serve the living. Despite forensic pathology’s contribution to public health surveillance, prevention, and response, the ...
Primary care practitioners are important allies for public health agencies, and ASTHO provides a portfolio of resources to help reinforce that critical relationship.
Poster used as a visual to summarize Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands' (CNMI) project. Target audience includes community members, public health programs, other jurisdictions, funders, and partners.
ASTHO brings together state and territorial health agencies, neonatologists, obstetricians, and other experts to address gaps in knowledge and advance neonatal and maternal levels of care.
The Green County Health Department (Wisconsin) updated and revised its Adult Blood Pressure Screening Policy to guide staff on protocols for accurate blood pressure measurement and screening. The policy includes counseling, referrals, and ...
Behavioral Health: Women, Children, and Families association of state and territorial health officials, astho, substance use disorder during pregnancy, maternal depression, perinatal depression, opioid use during pregnancy, postpartum ...
The Sixteenth Street Community Health Center (FQHC) in Wisconsin developed this follow-up protocol to use after identifying of people with undiagnosed hypertension in their electronic medical record. This protocol is used for initial blood ...
Learn about the art of storytelling in public health and how to tell stories to secure support/funding for critical public health initiatives.
This Roadmap supports rural health organizations to deepen health equity efforts to create the conditions for everyone to thrive together using the Pathways to Population Health Equity framework.
Raising awareness about superbugs and promoting a health equity approach to combat them.
ASTHO compiled a list of informative and inspirational public health podcasts to listen to in 2024.
State and territorial health officials share priorities and build relationships on Capitol Hill.
States are preparing to keep their communities safe during severe storms and low temperatures this winter.