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This episode emphasizes the importance of addressing heart disease and stroke prevention through approaches that center on health equity, including systems-level changes, quality improvement, and community development. CDC’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention is partnering with ASTHO to support jurisdictions in successfully integrating efforts with healthcare and community partners and implementing best practices and evidence-based policies to identify, control, and improve blood pressure.

Environmental health and public health preparedness staff work closely together to respond to natural disasters and climate change—learn how in this report.

Leveraging Healthy People 2030 to Build Non-Traditional Multisector Partnerships multisector partnerships, healthy people 2030, health equity, health outcomes, social services, health disparities, preventable disease, premature death, health literacy, economic stability, social determinants of health, department of health, improving the health, united states, long term, life expectancies, population health, chronic diseases, prevention and health promotion, health care system, disease prevention and health, health systems, healthy people 2030 objective, subject matter experts, office of disease prevention, personal health literacy, achieving health equity, health problem, population groups, astho, association of state and territorial health officials Corinne Gillenwater, Megan DeNubila-Griffin ASTHO | This toolkit helps public health build and maintain relationships with non-traditional partners across a multitude of sectors. The goal of this toolkit is to help state and territorial health agencies (S/THAs) build non-traditional, non-public health sector partnerships to improve health outcomes and advance health equity. The Healthy People 2030 objectives, aligned closely with the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) framework and Health in All Policies (HiAP) lens, can serve as the cornerstone of these collaborations. This toolkit is implementation-focused, providing partnership-building and -sustaining skills that are rooted in Healthy People 2030 tools and success stories and can be operationalized for community needs. Overall, this toolkit encourages S/THAs to implement these described strategies in their own public health practice to: Establish and maintain partnerships within and across sectors at the state and territorial level to create a shared vision of health. Respond to public health priorities collaboratively and strategically. On This Page Using Healthy People 2030 in Non-Traditional Partnerships to Improve Public Health Types of Non-Public Health Sector and Non-Traditional Partnerships for Consideration Foundations of Strong Partnerships Sustainability of Partnerships 10 Steps for Strong Public Health Multisector Partnerships Conclusion Additional Resources website yes

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to using a Health in All Policies (HiAP) strategy to address lead poisoning prevention. ASTHO held key informant interviews with staff from four state health agencies to learn more about their state childhood lead poisoning prevention programs and better understand how each agency employs a HiAP approach in its programmatic work. The key themes pulled from the discussions can be found in this report.

Policymakers seek to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by focusing on non-congregate sheltering and alternative housing for unhoused populations.