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 social determinants of health are ...
In this podcast episode, Scott Harris and Mei Kwong explore the current state of telehealth during COVID-19 and how it’s being used as a tool to access care, spotlighting examples from public health.
Nirav Shah, Director of Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Joe Smyser, CEO of Public Good Projects, discuss countering COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
The Suicide, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool (SPACECAT) helps local, state, and territorial health agencies better understand their capacity to address suicide, overdose, and adverse ...
This framework recognizes the critical role of public health leaders and partners in carrying out a comprehensive, cross-sector response to the opioid crisis.
Public health is an ever-evolving field, and state and territorial agencies can evolve with it to meet emerging needs through conscientious performance management.
2016 Profile Survey Individual Agency Profiles View profile data for each state and territorial health agency with information published in the ASTHO Profile of State Public Health, Volume Four. Information is presented for all agencies ...
The Peer Assessment Program provides an opportunity for health agencies to identify opportunities for modernizing their agency’s infrastructure and operations to meet the needs and challenges of public health.
Improving Community Access to Care Through Health Disparities Grant Learn how states have addressed COVID-related health disparities and improved health equity in their jurisdictions in these case studies. In 2021, as part of the COVID-19 ...
Explore why cancer prevention messaging is often ineffective and learn how public health communications professionals can message effectively instead.
Sustaining DMI: Leveraging Medicaid to Advance Public Health Data and Surveillance A primer for states: leveraging Medicaid to design and execute a sustainable DMI. This primer describes how to leverage Medicaid to design and execute a ...
This report identifies and breaks down seven core value areas that emerge from taking a health in all policies approach to policymaking and programming.
This report examines how four states (Colorado, Michigan, North Dakota, and Rhode Island) made use of their Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant funding.
This report aims to highlight the unique vector-borne disease challenges faced by Island Areas and to dive into the key components of a mosquito control program, that are relevant to these unique jurisdictions.
This report analyzes the results from a survey of state and territorial health agency staff to collect information regarding health agency efforts to address climate change and extreme weather.
Social determinants of healthcare are the conditions in which people are born, live, work, play, worship, and age. Read how these issues affect population health.
This report includes two case studies capturing how states are building capacity to address the threat of insecticide resistance. The case studies and analyses in this report may serve as a guide as states respond to similar problems in ...
Given the emergence of mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika in the United States and U.S. territories, this, the second edition of this report, provides guidance to assist local, state, and territorial mosquito ...
The data provided in this report is one effort to identify the strengths and understand the complexities of water preparedness for state and territorial public health directors, and to examine opportunities for improvement in the future.
This report highlights six public health approaches for addressing the rising incidence of substance use disorder and neonatal abstinence syndrome and draws out the critical role that state health leaders play in each.