Tenant-based housing voucher programs improve housing, health and health-related outcomes for adults, including housing quality and security, healthcare use, and neighborhood opportunities (eg, lower neighborhood poverty rate, and higher safety).
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Authors of a new article in JPHMP share findings from surveying people experiencing predominantly unsheltered homelessness in Las Vegas, NV, and Orlando, FL about motivators, barriers, and receipt of COVID-19 vaccination during 2021.
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In response to the opioid crisis, many police and first responders implemented deflection programs, a unique collaboration between public health and public safety. These initiatives “deflect” individuals with substance use disorders away from the justice system and ERs by connecting them to behavioral health care or other needed community-based services.
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The PHAST Framework and Toolkit can help support jurisdictional efforts to improve and sustain multi-sector partnerships addressing the overdose crisis.
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A preview issue of the upcoming special themed supplemental issue on the Public Health Workforce Interest and Needs Survey, sponsored by the de Beaumont Foundation, is now available on the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice website
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Dr. Katie Schenk distills her suggestions over the last 10 weeks and directs them towards 3 groups of constituents within our public health community, arranged according to perceived power in shaping the public health sector.
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To begin addressing the capacity shortage within governmental public health, CDC worked with AmeriCorps to create the Public Health Corps (PHC). Members of UMCPH describe the successes and challenges of the Minnesota PHC.
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Dr. Brenda Stevenson Marshall reflects on the partnership between the APHA Health Administration Section and the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice as she looks forward to retirement and bids farewell to her colleagues.
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Overdose Fatality Review Teams do important work to improve overdose prevention in the community, but continued technical assistance may best support consistently rigorous implementation of best practices.
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Recruiting a community-based workforce that reflects the cultural and language traditions of the targeted populations can help to increase community engagement, build trust, and improve reach within state contact tracing programs.
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