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Including Island Areas in Federal Public Health Datasets

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Collecting and sharing data are crucially important to improving health equity, because those datasets inform effective policymaking. Despite having some of the most challenging population health outcomes, the U.S. island areas are often ...

Leveraging Health Official Authority and Influence for Systems Improvement

This brief draws on health officials’ experiences in territories and Freely Associated States to illustrate opportunities to lead improvement efforts by building relationships, committing to data use, establishing regular communication, ...

Improving Indirect Cost Rate Use in Island Jurisdictions

Guam,

Learn how increasing the use of indirect cost rates in the territories and freely associated states can help improve public health financing in these jurisdictions.

Sharing Island Stories on Health Equity: Setting the Stage for Equity in the Island Areas

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Guam,

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 health and healthcare system looks like ...

Overcoming Baked-In Inequities and Promoting Health Equity in the Island Areas

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Guam,

Many health equity frameworks have been built in the context of the states, as such, they do not always translate easily to the U.S. territories and freely associated states.