This article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice offers strategies focused on enhancing safety net services, expanding digital health in underserved areas, strengthening the workforce pipeline, improving Medicaid coverage and quality, and promoting data interoperability between Medicaid and public health systems.
This article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice addresses the syndemic of substance misuse, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and mental health conditions. The technical package outlines evidence-based policies for state health officials to address public health issues, including improved health outcomes, increased access to treatment and services, and increased awareness of policy options.
This article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice assesses the impact of COVID-19 on health service utilization of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through an analysis of Medicaid claims data..
Optimizing Governmental Public Health Recruitment and Hiring article yes
Helping Health Agencies Adopt the FDA’s Updated Food Code article yes
Evidence-Based Strategies to Enhance Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response article yes
Identifies the public health interventions, partnerships, and policies that state and territorial health officials can pursue to promote the Community Health Workers' workforce.
Drawing on the current evidence base, promising practices, and ASTHO member experiences, this article outlines strategies and policies that public health leaders can implement to respond to overdose in their jurisdictions.
The article in Journal of Public Health Management and Practice outlines strategies to combat burnout and moral injury in public health workers, recommending improvements in management, workplace culture, and staffing to enhance workforce well-being and retention.
Territorial Support for COVID-19 Health Equity: TA for OT21-2103 Recipients article yes
Highlights key public health interventions to address healthy aging and older adult health that health agencies are equipped to champion or support.
This AJPH article shares the results of a survey and showcases how state and territorial health agencies struggle to meet the mounting challenge of climate change.
Sustained Management of COVID-19: Doing More of What Works to Control Future Surges article yes
This article in Journal of Public Health Management & Practice discusses ASTHO's strategies for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity.
This article in Journal of Women's Health describes the implementation of a temporary field placement approach and suggests that this approach could be replicated to enhance state and local capacity to respond to the opioid crisis or other high-consequence events.
This article in Journal Of Women's Health explores the actions of jurisdictions that participated in the Increasing Access to Contraception Learning Community, and how they continued the work of their action plan goals 1 year after the formal closure of the learning community, indicating sustainability of the learning community activities, beyond what jurisdictions accomplished during formal participation.
Strategy to Action: Incorporating CDC's 10 Evidence-Based Strategies in Overdose Prevention and Surveillance Efforts website yes
This journal article provides an evidence base for communication efforts, experiences, and views of travelers during the summer of 2020. It was examined through a telephone survey of 1,968 US adults, conducted in English and Spanish, July 2 through July 16, 2020. Findings are summarized in this journal article.
Highlights evidence-based state policies that improve outcomes across a number of chronic disease outcomes, with an emphasis placed on policies where S/THOs have authority or influence in the policy process.
This article in Public Health Reports shares results from a study to demonstrate the usefulness of applying an implementation science framework-the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)-to increase understanding of implementation of complex statewide public health initiatives, using the example of Medicaid immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) policies.