Panel of State Public Health Officials Testify on Lung Disease Outbreak WASHINGTON—Today, four state health officials are testifying on a panel before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on ...
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.
New Guidelines Highlight Public Health Role in Promoting Heart Health ARLINGTON, VA—The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) agrees the updated blood pressure guidelines ...
Nation’s Public Health Officials Urge Americans to Stop Vaping ARLINGTON, VA—The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) issued the following statement in response to the ...
Hypertension disorders in pregnancy are the leading cause of maternal death, but state and territorial health agencies can address hypertension in pregnancy and reduce maternal morbidity and ...
ASTHO partnered with the International Association for Indigenous Aging to produce this series of communication materials to address the connection between brain health and heart health.
ASTHO was funded by CDC to create a breast cancer disparities learning community to help health departments in Arizona, Tennessee, and West Virginia identify and address the unique state and local ...
The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center is tackling childhood obesity through Community Health Opportunities Organized with Schools at the Epicenter (CHOOSE), a multi-partner and multi-level ...
A New Normal for Public Health Agencies Association of state and territorial health officials, astho, states and territories, covid-19, covid-19 pandemic, immunization, vaccination, influenza ...
CDC's Tom Chiller, MD, explains that in the United States, three main types of fungi can cause lung infections like pneumonia when people breathe in fungal spores from the air. Depending on where ...
State health agencies have a long history of using evidence-based public health approaches to increase colorectal cancer screening rates and partnering with health systems and other national ...
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of heart disease, particularly in adults aged 35 to 64. This blog post breaks down ways the Surgeon General's report on smoking cessation may be ...
People with chronic diseases have suffered the most during the pandemic both in rates of COVID-19 mortality and morbidity, and the health disparities that exist in those with chronic disease and poor ...
Amid so much uncertainty, it might feel naïve to make any claims about what the future holds. But it is in these moments that it becomes more important than ever to have beacons to guide us and ...
People who use electricity-dependent durable medical equipment (DME) at home—such as ventilators and oxygen concentrators—can face life-threatening consequences during a power outage. HHS reports ...
I think we all welcomed 2021 with open arms as we look to put the worst of 2020 behind us. We have all been through a lot—we have lost family members and friends to COVID-19, we have seen public ...
While governments have faced challenges in adopting a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to respond to COVID-19, the impact of the public health emergency across sectors such as housing, ...
Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death in Guam, Palau, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. These jurisdictions are taking innovative steps to reduce hypertension ...
This ASTHOBrief highlights healthy aging frameworks by AARP and Trust for America's Health that include health promotion, injury prevention, and chronic disease management along with another ...
Policymakers all over the country have used legislation about farmers markets and sugar-sweetened beverages to help curb many of the negative impacts of food environments.