With support from The California Endowment, Human Impact Partners launched HealthEquityGuide.org this week to assist local health departments navigate issues of health disparities and health equity within their own communities. The guide features strategic practices to build internal infrastructure, work across government agencies, foster community partnerships, and champion transformative change. The guide also provides over…
Read More »This week, the de Beaumont Foundation and the Aspen Institute Health, Medicine, and Society (HMS) Program announced the planned launch of the Public Health Reaching Across Sectors (PHRASES) Initiative. The PHRASES Initiative is a multiyear project designed to provide the tools and training public health practitioners need to effectively engage, communicate, and work with local…
Read More »Upon returning from their Independence Day Recess this week, Senate Republicans unveiled their revised version of the ‘Better Care Reconciliation Act’ to repeal-and-replace the Affordable Care Act. Senate Republicans experienced intense turmoil from within their party and stiff opposition from the general public after releasing their initial discussion draft of the BCRA on June 22….
Read More »Today is the deadline for policy committees to meet and report fiscal bills, resulting in a busy week of hearings. Policy committees have one more week to meet and report all remaining bills before the Legislature departs for its summer recess. Below are several bills of interest to CHEAC Members. This week’s full bill chart…
Read More »This week, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) released its annual California Spending Plan to summarize the annual state budget that was just passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Governor Brown. This publication is the first preliminary report of the 2017-2018 budget; the LAO will release an updated version of the publication,…
Read More »This week, former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden and former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist penned an opinion editorial in The Hill detailing potential outcomes of cuts to the budget of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Frieden and Frist indicate proposed budgets from the Trump Administration and U.S. Congress stand to…
Read More »The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) will be hosting two upcoming webinars to provide information to local health departments on the Proposition 56 Oral Health Program funding opportunity. The webinar will be hosted by the California Dental Director Dr. Jayanth Kumar and CDPH colleagues. Two webinar sessions will be offered: July 26, 2017 from…
Read More »CHEAC Staff Member Jack Anderson recently had research he conducted presented at the 2017 AcademyHealth Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Anderson’s research explored disease management and community-clinical linkage strategies for patients with chronic disease conditions employed locally by primary care providers across the state of Nebraska. The study found primary care providers in Nebraska,…
Read More »This week, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Safe and Active Community Branch (SACB) released new epidemiology data on pedestrian injuries in California between 2007 and 2013. The report details the frequency and severity of motor vehicle-involved pedestrian injuries throughout the state using Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS) data. Findings of the report…
Read More »The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) recently released a report entitled Local Health Department and School Partnerships: Working Together to Build Healthier Schools. The report utilizes a “Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child” collaborative approach to child learning and health and provides case studies and examples of LHD and school partnerships in reducing…
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