Engaging the Private-Sector Health Care System in Building Capacity to Respond to Threats to the Public's Health and National Security: Proceedings of a Workshop
Proceedings from a March 2018 workshop to identify and understand approaches to aligning health care system incentives with the American public ' s need for a health care system that is prepared to manage acutely ill and injured patients during a disaster, public health emergency, or other mass casualty event. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 3, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
A collaborative translational research framework for evaluating and implementing the appropriate use of human genome sequencing to improve health
Study discusses a translational research framework that features collaboration among multiple health systems with already available genome sequencing data, intervention information, and clinical outcomes. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 3, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Diagnoses of HIV Infection Among Adults Aged 50 Years and Older in the United States and Dependent Areas 2011-2016 (August 2018)
This document is an issue of the HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report that presents data for diagnoses of HIV infection among persons aged 50 and older for 2011-2016, reported to CDC through December 31, 2017. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Request for Proposals: A cross-sectional survey of HIV risk among adolescent girls and young women and their male sexual partners in Haiti
MEASURE Evaluation is seeking a local organization to serve as an implementing partner for a cross-sectional survey of HIV risk among adolescent girls and young women and their male sexual partners. Proposals are due by August 31, 2018. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Neighborhood Navigator
Searchable database of free or reduced cost services, including food, housing, goods transit, health, money, care, education, work, and legal, based on zipcode. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
School District Crisis Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Plans - United States, 2006, 2012, and 2016
To examine improvements over time and gaps in school preparedness plans, data from the 2006, 2012, and 2016 School Health Policies and Practices Study (SHPPS) were analyzed to assess changes in the percentage of districts meeting Healthy People 2020 school preparedness objectives. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis-Attributable Years of Potential Life Lost to Life Expectancy and Potential Life Lost Before Age 65 Years - United States, 1999-2016
During 1999-2016, the mean CWP-attributable years of potential life lost per decedent increased from 8.1 to 12.6 years, likely because of increased severity and rapid progression of CWP. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Deaths Related to Hurricane Irma - Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, September 4-October 10, 2017
CDC ' s Emergency Operations Center collaborated with state health departments in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina to collect and analyze Hurricane Irma-related mortality data to understand the main circumstances of death. The most common circumstance-of-death categories were exacerbation of existing medical conditions and power outage. Further analysis revealed two unique subcategories of heat-related and oxygen-dependent deaths in which power outage contributed to exacerbation of an existing medical condition. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Public Meeting - Secretary's Advisory Committee on Healthy People 2030
September 6-7, 2018; Washington, DC. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
7th Annual Breastfeeding & Equity Summit
August 16-17, 2018; Atlanta, GA. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2017
Report tracks the status of the tobacco epidemic and interventions to combat it. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Enhancing Public Health Surveillance of Autism Spectrum Disorder through the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network
Funding to enhance the capacity of surveillance programs to implement a population-based, multiple source surveillance program for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
One Health One Goal: 2018 One Health Conference
September 14-15, 2018; Houston, TX. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Disaster Health Education Symposium 2018
September 12, 2018; Bethesda, MD. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Notice To Announce Commission of a Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health
The U.S. Public Health Service ' s Oral Health Coordinating Committee announces the commission of a Surgeon General ' s Report presenting prominent issues affecting oral health. The report will document progress in oral health in the twenty years since the 2000 Surgeon General ' s Report on Oral Health, identify existing knowledge gaps, and articulate a vision for the future. (Source: PHPartners.org)
Source: PHPartners.org - August 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
