Co-authors from CDC and the Alzheimer’s Association provide details about the new 2018-2023 Healthy Brain Initiative Road Map, which offers strategies for public health agencies to promote cognitive health and support people living with ...
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This report highlights how the North Dakota Department of Health and its partners tested health information technology approaches to improve blood pressure measurement and referral systems in eight local health units and one tribal ...
ASTHO’s tobacco control program serves as a resource on perspectives, capacities, challenges, and opportunities to implement state-based tobacco control and prevention initiatives. The overarching goals of this program are to enhance the ...
ASTHO provides a robust portfolio of resources and tools for state and territorial health departments to prevent and mitigate chronic disease and promote health improvement.
Public health officials are key in crafting policies and strategies that address the social determinants of health to advance health equity and improve population health.
In this podcast episode, experts offer perspectives on the value of cultivating partnerships between state public health agencies and state units on aging. In addition, officials from Georgia describe their collaboration to improve the ...
This episode highlights the nation’s childhood obesity epidemic and discusses ways to reduce climbing obesity rates by increasing access to healthy foods and promoting physical activity through community planning and changes to the built ...
Lesley Steinman and Mark Snowden of the University of Washington Health Promotion Research Center discuss the PEARLS program and how it is being used to confront the stigma associated with depression and mental health.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, with approximately 30% of all heart disease deaths attributed to smoking cigarettes.