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Apr
02
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During the first full week of April each year, the American Public Health Association brings together communities across the United States to observe National Public Health Week by recognizing the contributions of public health professionals and organizations and highlighting issues that are important to improving the health of our nation. Today’s post includes recognition for… Read More »
Posted in: Public Health
Mar
31
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During the first full week of April each year, the American Public Health Association (APHA) brings together communities across the United States to observe National Public Health Week to recognize the contributions of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving our nation. Today’s post includes some planning ideas around APHA’s 2015 themes… Read More »
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Mar
23
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Library of Medicine will co-host webinars on March 24 and March 26 on the newly-released Community Health Status Indicators 2015 Web Application. Learn first-hand from experts who developed CHSI 2015 about how best to use this redesigned and newly released web application. Registration information is… Read More »
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Feb
19
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Adequate health literacy is essential to health care, public health, and the way our society views health. Improving the health literacy of the population has been broadly recognized as an important goal and is one of the major objectives in the Healthy People 2020 Health Communication and Health Information Technology topic. Health literacy is not… Read More »
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Jan
28
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Fifteen years ago, measles was considered eliminated from the United States. However, in recent weeks the number of people infected with measles has gone up to 78 since an outbreak in California’s Disneyland. In 2014 alone there were 644 reported cases in the United States. Many of those infected were never vaccinated for various reasons. … Read More »
Posted in: Health Literacy, Public Health