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State Public Health and Public Health Heroes

October 26, 2011 | New Public Health Post

Last week, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) released the latest iteration of the Profile of State Public Health, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ...

Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity

September 1, 2009 | Issue Brief

IOM report identifies 58 promising actions for local governments to consider taking.

Strength in Numbers: King County Service Organizations Pool Their Money and Resources

June 1, 2000 | Program Result Report

Starting in May 1996, the King County Blended Funding Project was a cooperative effort to create a system of care to meet the needs of the most difficult-to-serve and high-cost children, youth, and their families in King County.

Vote & Vax: A Community-Based Strategy to Promote Adult Immunization

January 14, 2013 | Program Result Report

Vote & Vax increased access to influenza immunization and other preventive services for vulnerable populations through clinics provided at polling places on Election Day from 2004 though 2010.

Are Local Laws the Key to Ending Childhood Lead Poisoning?

May 3, 2013 | Journal Article

Reducing and eventually eliminating childhood lead exposure through local policy innovations, is the main objective of this study.

Philadelphia's Lead Court Is Making a Difference

May 3, 2013 | Journal Article

Philadelphia's Lead Court shows compliance for lead hazard remediation improvement.

2013 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

March 20, 2013 | Feature

The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps can be put to use right away to help create a culture of health in your community.

Action Strategies Toolkit

February 11, 2011 | Toolkit

Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the RWJF, was created to support local and state leaders nationwide in their efforts to promote healthy, active communities and access to affordable healthy foods. The strategies in this toolkit include promising, evidence-based practices that advance these goals and build upon the work in which policy-makers are already engaged.

Expanding the Ability of Practitioners and Scholars to Assess Law as a Tool to Improve Public Health

January 4, 2011 | Report

Knowledge Asset: An ongoing study examines the breadth of local public health decision-making authority and describes how local public health ordinances fill gaps in or supplement existing state and federal public health ordinances.

Cross-Jurisdictional Relationships in Local Public Health

January 1, 2011 | Report

New report explores collaborative relationships between local health departments.

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