This week, the California State Association of Counties (CSAC), Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC), and the Urban Counties of California (UCC) hosted a one-day Counties Cannabis Summit to explore the changing policy landscape related to medical and adult use cannabis in California. In attendance were key state regulators, county supervisors and senior staff, and…
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 »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…
Read More »The California Office of Health Information Integrity (CalOHII) recently released State Health Information Guidance (SHIG) on sharing sensitive health information. SHIG provides information on when, where, and why mental health and substance use disorder information can be exchanged and provides clarification of relevant state and federal laws. This guidance will provide counties necessary information to…
Read More »Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D., appointed Brenda Fitzgerald, M.D., as the next Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Fitzgerald has been the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health…
Read More »This week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report revealing the amount of opioids prescribed in the U.S. peaked in 2010 and then decreased each year through 2015. However, the CDC notes providers are still prescribing opioids too often and for longer periods of time, increasing the risk of addiction,…
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