Public Health
Public Health is a critical area of focus for local and state government agencies, involving health promotion, disease prevention, and preparedness for health emergencies within communities. Governments are responsible for implementing public health policies, managing healthcare services, and responding to crises like pandemics. This directory provides articles on public health, along with related topics like SafeGov, which covers strategies and initiatives for protecting the well-being and security of the public through effective governance.
“Financially, we are getting by,” said John Doucette, Gilbertsville Ambulance’s interim chief of operations. “We’re making payroll and paying our bills.”
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine will do the hiring; officials said the partnership would include the use of hospital sites for training and cover liability costs
The previous director said someone in that role could work on things such as the firefighter cancer surveillance program, the city’s AED program and workplace safety training
The organizations account for more than 90 percent of the acute EHR market and almost 60 percent of the ambulatory EHR market.
Retired and disabled veterans and others receiving benefits were granted the largest pay increase in 2018, and the VA appeals process was streamlined.
The AR SAVES partnership established a broad hospital-based telehealth network and is testing first responder technologies to improve stroke response.
Sacramento is distributing free respirator masks at fire departments to residents in response to hazardous air quality from the Camp Fire in Butte County.
CDP can deploy 50 one- to four-hour, post-disaster training modules to public safety and emergency management agencies at their home bases in 24 hours.
Officials hope the app, Pokket, will keep people out of jail and help them better acclimate to life outside a cell. Twelve other jurisdictions are part of the $148M national criminal justice reform initiative.
Guest columnist Craig Settles advises on how community broadband can advance telehealth networks in both rural and urban areas with poor connectivity.
Through Aetna’s Cultivating Healthy Communities initiative, grants were awarded to 25 nonprofits with a focus on health and hunger in America.
Mayors from Gary, Indiana, Huntington, West Virginia, and Knoxville, Tennessee, ask lawmakers for more federal funding for opioids at the local level. Get the new NLC/NACO whitepaper on best practices to address the crisis.
Jason Kander announced he is ending his bid for Kansas City mayor due to an ongoing battle with PTSD. He is a military veteran that served in Afghanistan.
An ICMA 2018 session on opioid interventions shared rural, urban and regional diversion program information and offered key takeaways about the role of data.
Local government solutions providers attended ICMA 2018.
The Ohio competition aims to develop -- with millions in funding -- opioid technologies that can help address opioid abuse for marketplace deployment by 2022.
Loneliness is at the heart of poor physical and mental health, but it’s going to take a village to combat this public health epidemic
Before responders arrive, students trained to apply tourniquets have the chance to save the lives of their peers and others.
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