The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) and others, launched the 2019-20 flu vaccine campaign to promote the CDC’s recommendation for everyone age six months and older to get an annual flu vaccine. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar announced…
Read More »The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), with support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has announced a continuation of a technical assistance opportunity, “Strong Systems, Stronger Communities,” to local health departments. NACCHO will support LHDs in moving upstream to address social determinants of health and health equity…
Read More »The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) recently released a toolkit highlighting state initiatives to help older adults in rural communities age in place by increasing services that help people remain in their homes, expanding and professionalizing the caregiver workforce, improving transportation access and services, and making delivery system reforms within Medicaid programs. The…
Read More »The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) will be holding a webinar on October 17, 2019, from 11:00 am-12:00 pm on “Catalyzing Medicaid-Public Health Collaboration to Achieve Mutual Prevention Goals: Lessons from CDC’s 6|18 Initiative.” The webinar will detail the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) initiative to provide a practical framework to…
Read More »The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) is launching the “Improving Asthma Control Learning Collaborative” (Learning Collaborative) to support state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) agency efforts to improve health outcomes among beneficiaries with asthma. The first of a four-part webinar series, titled “The Role of Medicaid and CHIP in Improving Asthma…
Read More »On Tuesday, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued a statewide health advisory urging Californians to refrain from vaping, regardless of the substance or source. The health advisory follows the executive order issued by Governor Gavin Newsom, setting forth a series of actions related to health risks associated with vaping and increasing youth utilization….
Read More »This week, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla cleared for circulation two referenda challenging California statute related to state oversight of medical exemptions for school immunization requirements enacted through Senator Richard Pan’s SB 276 and SB 714. Recall, the two measures were passed and signed into law earlier this month after a flurry of activities,…
Read More »This week, the National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) released a sign-on opportunity for local health departments and officials to support the recently announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plan to remove non-tobacco flavored electronic cigarettes, including mint and menthol, from the market in an attempt to curb utilization of the…
Read More »Recently, the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) released the first-ever national recommendations for State Suicide Prevention Infrastructure, a collaborative effort among an advisory panel of experts and stakeholders. The guidelines detail essential infrastructure elements for advancing state suicide prevention efforts, including elements to assist policy leaders and officials assess the status of their current infrastructure…
Read More »In a new report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), finds five overarching goals and associated recommendations for health systems, government agencies, and related entities should implement to better integrate patients’ social needs into health care delivery. The report, Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream…
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