Environmental Public Health Week

Public health performance management: opportunities for environmental public health.

edi tor ’s note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will high...

Connecting Health Care With Public & Environmental Health

The Environmental Public Health Performance Standards: strengthening the nation's environmental public health infrastructure and improving environmental health practice.

Editor’s note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build part­ nerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Con­ trol and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest au­ thors from across CDC will ...

National Public Health Week: focus on injury prevention.

More than 20 years ago, the Institute of Medicine called injury ‘probably the most underrecognized major public health problem facing the nation today.’ Despite the ongoing commitment of governmental and non-governmental organisations to prevent and reduce the burden of injury in the USA, injuries remain the leading cause of death for children and adults between the ages of 1 and 44 years. In 2...

National Public Health Week — April 3–9, 2017

CDC joins the American Public Health Association (APHA) in celebration of National Public Health Week, April 3-9, 2017. Since 1995, APHA has led the observance of National Public Health Week during the first full week of April. The week recognizes the impact of public health on the health of the nation. The 2017 observance focuses on making the United States the Healthiest Nation in One Generat...