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August 18, 2017 11:51 AM Category: Health Equity , Physical Activity by Rosa Riley How can cities prepare for the future of transportation and technology? According to Harriet Tregoning, managing change and designing for adaptation are the best ways to prepare. Tregoning is the former principal deputy secretary of the Office of Community Planning and Development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Transportation in cities is increasingly being changed and driven by technology. The primary technology that has impacted transportation systems has been the automobile itself. Our current places are a product of the automobile. ...

By: Rosa Riley As part of the Plan4Health project, the American Public Health Association hosted three webinars in January, March, and May to focus on the areas where Plan4Health projects had success during the three-year grant period. January: Coalition Building During the coalition-building webinar, we heard from Tim Gibb and David Edgell from the Delaware Healthy Eating and Active Living (DE HEAL) coalition and Sandra Cummings from Health By Design to talk about coalitions and how they form and function to do the type of work being done with the Plan4Health project. The presenters discussed coalitions and collaborations and used them interchangeably ...

by Matt Makara - MPH, Program Manager, Affiliate Affairs, American Public Health Association Each month we’ll highlight a few news stories from around the nation related to nutrition, physical activity and chronic disease. Please see below for select stories from August: 8/1/2016 – Order Lunch Early, Lose Weight Later? You might be able to cut your calorie intake by ordering meals before you’re actually hungry, a new study suggests. Researchers examined the lunch orders of 690 employees using a corporate cafeteria and 195 university students choosing catered lunch options. 8/1/2016 – Fat May Not Hike ...

August 16, 2016 5:24 PM Category: Health Equity by Matt Makara - MPH, Program Manager, Affiliate Affairs, American Public Health Association This past week Plan4Health coalitions from around the country came together in Sacramento to participate in a multi-faceted meeting over the course of three days. Here, attendees had opportunities to meet and learn from one another as well as many guest speakers, share experiences and get out in the community to see the impact of the work that the Sacramento coalition is involved in. We were very fortunate to have a number of guest speakers throughout the three day meeting to provide guidance and ...

June Health News by Matt Makara - MPH, Program Manager, Affiliate Affairs, American Public Health Association Each month we’ll highlight a few news stories from around the nation related to nutrition, physical activity and chronic disease. Please see below for select stories from June: June 1: Draft guidance to food industry for voluntarily reducing sodium in processed and commercially prepared food Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance for public comment that provides practical, voluntary sodium reduction targets for the food industry. The draft short-term (two-year) and long-term (10-year) voluntary targets for ...

June is Men’s Health Month by Matt Makara - MPH, Program Manager, Affiliate Affairs, American Public Health Association “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Unfortunately, this old adage may not be actively taken to heart for a large part of the U.S. population – Men. In the U.S., men have higher rates for many of the leading causes of death, including heart disease and diabetes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). Unfortunately, men are more likely to not have healthcare coverage compared to women and typically visit the doctor far less frequently for preventive ...

The American Public Health Association is pleased to announce that it has awarded funding to eleven Affiliates to support activities that prepare local, tribal, state and territorial health departments for national accreditation. Proposed activities include surveys that assess staff capacity, knowledge and barriers to accreditation; educational sessions and peer-to-peer sharing opportunities on best practices and lessons learned from accredited health departments; technical assistance hours; and the development of resources and modules on national accreditation. APHA would like to thank the review panel for its assistance and guidance in the grant review ...

APHA and Affiliates receiving Accreditation funding have been featured in the October/November 2012 edition of the PHAB E-Newsletter in the Partner Spotlight section. To learn about Affiliates' efforts towards the national accreditation of local, state, territorial and tribal health departments, click here .

This story provided courtesy of APHA's Public Health Newswire: by David on Jan 19, 2012 • 5:49 pm ‘Doing more with less’ is a familiar refrain among those in the public health field. But for the larger health workforce, the squeeze will be acutely felt in 2014 when 32 million Americans enter the U.S. health system under the Affordable Care Act. “There is going to be a large surge of patients coming through the pipeline,” Melvin Shipp, OD, DrPH, MPH, president of APHA told Maryland lawmakers during a briefing in the state capital this week. And Shipp said we need to be ready. That includes expanding the role of non-physician providers ...