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A mid-session legislative update on five of ASTHO's top 10 public health state policy issues to watch in 2023: data privacy and modernization, reproductive health, health equity, strengthening public health agencies, and immunization.

Leaders must manage two key responsibilities when it comes to workforce resilience: they must manage their own resilience and practice self-care; they must lead and ensure a healthy and supportive work environment.

As the conversation about the importance of mental health continues to unfold, health agencies have a critical role to play in supporting positive mental health outcomes through nutrition support and food assistance programs.

CDC's 2011-2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey results, summarizing data from the past decade, show some alarming trends in mental health conditions, especially for teen girls, LGBQ-identified youth, and youth of color.

ASTHO spoke with Denise Octavia Smith, the inaugural executive director of the National Association of Community Health Workers, about the critical work community health workers are doing and her roadmap to sustaining the current wave of ...

States have identified different strategies to implement healthy eating approaches and reduce obesity at the school and community levels, as well as through food labeling at grocery stores and food markets.

The Maternal, Infant, Early Childhood Home Visiting program, which provides visiting services to parents with young children, is up for Congressional reauthorization. This post explores the importance of the program and why it should be ...

ASTHO interviewed two state health agencies (SHAs), two nonprofit partners, and one university partner that were heavily invested in state early childhood development policy about how their programs fared during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This post highlights the successes and challenges of "children's cabinets" in Minnesota and Iowa as well as their efforts to address early childhood health and development.

State and territorial health agencies continue to be challenged by the opioid epidemic, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing the opioid crisis requires a robust public health response, which could be helped by ...