Live Well San Diego: A Model of Community Involvement and Upstream Public Health Investment
San Diego County’s health department shows how investing in long-term solutions to chronic disease can have major impact.
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Investing in Prevention: How City Health Departments Tackle Chronic Disease
About 129 million (or 40%) of Americans live with at least one chronic disease – such as heart disease and hypertension, cancer, diabetes, or asthma; local health departments provide important community-level solutions to prevent chronic disease.
Read moreUrban Health Departments in AZ Establish First-Ever Tribal Liaisons
The state’s two largest urban health departments have dedicated public health infrastructure funding to building stronger relationships with area tribal nations.
Read moreSan Francisco Documentary Spotlights Impact of Community-based Organizations on Health Equity during COVID-19 Pandemic
A documentary from the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) movingly shows how community members and organizations banded together with the health department to provide testing and vaccine equity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read moreBeyond Health Disparities: Confronting Cultural Racism
When cultural racism is entrenched in a society, how do we successfully do equity-focused and anti-racist work? Lonias Gilmore, Director of Health Equity and Social Justice for the Big Cities Health Coalition, shares strategies for adopting an asset-based perspective.
Read moreMessaging Research: Effective Public Health Communication Strategies for a Divisive Political Climate
Big Cities Health Coalition polled audiences from 35 of their member big cities to better understand how individuals who are skeptical of public health interventions could be moved to better support the important role governmental public health departments and leaders play in their communities. This post outlines the top messaging strategies their research supports.
Read moreHow Health Departments Are Addressing Substance Use Disorder and Overdose During a Pandemic
by Brad Finegood MA, LMHC, and Felicia Salcedo This post originally appeared on the Front Lines Blog and is republished here with permission from the Big Cities Health Coalition. COVID-19 has necessitated an all-hands-on-deck approach for health departments across the country. The scale and urgency of this effort cannot be overstated. Even as health departments and the public at large are focused on COVID-19,
Read moreWe Can Strengthen Communities by Committing to Equity
by Jamila M. Porter, DrPH, MPH This post originally appeared on the Front Lines Blog and is republished here with permission from the Big Cities Health Coalition. From the very beginning, the COVID-19 pandemic illuminated and exacerbated a host of devastating inequalities that have long existed in our society. Renewed national movements for social justice and civil rights have made clear that the pandemic is a unique inflection point. We can stay on our current course and endure ever-growing injustice, or
Read moreTurning the Page on a Challenging Year
by Chrissie Juliano, MPP This post originally appeared on the Front Lines Blog and is republished here with permission from the Big Cities Health Coalition. The past year has been immensely challenging and consequential for the field of public health, particularly big city and other local and state health officials and their staff. Ten months after the first US case of COVID-19, our members
Read moreTo Turn the Corner on COVID-19, We Need to Agree on Priorities
by Chrissie Juliano, MPP This post originally appeared on the Front Lines Blog and is republished here with permission from the Big Cities Health Coalition. The coronavirus pandemic has altered American life in countless ways. During the week, schools sit empty, as children and their teachers interact for lessons through video chat. And on Saturdays and Sundays, places of worship welcome only a fraction
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