Public Health Policy and Practice
- Chronic Disease Prevention in Local Health Departments: The Challenge of the 21st Century, Proceedings of a Conference
From the preface: "The publication of [these proceedings] is not only an effort to capture the content of a significant event in the recent history of public health in California, but also to serve as a framing document for a series of follow-up regional meetings and web-based conferences intended to help build the capacity of local health departments in California to engage in chronic disease prevention, particularly focused on the social determinants of health." This conference, on January 22, 2008, brought together senior officials from 45 local health departments in California, together with representatives from the California Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
January 2008
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- Case Studies in Chronic Disease Prevention: Local Health Departments Confront the Challenge of the 21st Century
This document, prepared as background material for the Conference on Local Health Departments and Chronic Disease Prevention, gathers case studies from six local health departments in California working, in innovative ways, to address the new challenge of chronic disease prevention.
January 2008
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- Nutrition and Physical Activity in California: The Landscape of Funding and the Role of State and Local Health Departments
January 2007
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- Local Health Departments and the Challenge of Chronic Disease: Lessons From California
January 2007
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- Creating a Robust Public Health Infrastructure for Physical Activity Promotion
December 2006
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- "Transforming Public Health Through Community Partnerships"
The November edition of Preventing Chronic Disease from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention features an editorial on "Transforming Public Health Through Community Partnerships."
www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2005/nov/toc.htm
- Health and the Built Environment
In 2003, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) developed two reports on Health and the Built Environment. The first defines a role for public health in local land use and transportation planning and the second explores strategies for collaborating with community design professionals (many of the strategies are equally relevant to community-based agencies).
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NACCHO HBE Public Health Role [768k pdf file]
NACCHO HBE Collaboration [443k pdf file]
- NACCHO Model Practice Database
The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has catalogued model and promising practices used by local health departments (LHDs) to facilitate effective and innovative public health practice. Items are listed under the general areas of Community Health, Environmental Health and Public Health Infrastructure and Preparedness. The Model Practice Database is searchable by state and topic.
archive.naccho.org/modelPractices/
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