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• Free Toolkit Available for National Public Health Week - 10-MAR-2010    National Public Health Week is April 5-11, 2010 with a theme of "A Healthier America: One Community at a Time." The toolkit provides fact sheets, media outreach materials, suggested community events, legislative information, and resources to plan your event.

• Vaccinating Children against Flu Helps Protect Wider Community - 10-MAR-2010    Results of a clinical trial conducted in a largely self-contained religious community during the 2008-09 influenza season show that immunizing children against seasonal influenza can significantly protect unvaccinated community members against influenza as well.

• SOPHE 60th Anniversary Student Health Education Marketing Contest - 10-MAR-2010    The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) is soliciting the development if a new and innovative marketing tool for SOPHE to reach the next generation of health educators. Submissions are due by May 1, 2010.

• HHS Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative - 10-MAR-2010    A new initiative, Communities Putting Prevention to Work, provides funding to national public or private non-profit organizations to help communities decrease smoking and obesity, increase physical activity and improve nutrition. The application deadline is April 19, 2010.

• Prostate Cancer Screening Guideline Updated by ACS - 10-MAR-2010    The American Cancer Society (ACS) had updated its prostate cancer screening guideline and recommends that doctors more heavily involve patients in the decision of whether to get screened for prostate cancer.

• NLM Announces Funding for HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects - 10-MAR-2010    The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces the solicitation of quotations from organizations and libraries to design and conduct projects that will improve access to HIV/AIDS related health information for patients, the affected community, and their caregivers. Quotations are due by April 19, 2010.

• CDC Recruiting Candidates for Public Health Apprentice Program - 04-MAR-2010    The CDC is recruiting Public Health Apprentice Program (PHAP) candidates and identifying assignments for 50 new apprenticeships throughout the United States. Applications are due March 8, 2010.

• New NLM Page on Chile Earthquake Information - 04-MAR-2010    The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces a new page of Chile earthquake information for those in the United States and elsewhere who are monitoring or responding to the medical and public health needs in Chile.

• APHA’s Get Ready Campaign: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks - 03-MAR-2010    APHA's Get Ready campaign reminds everyone to check preparedness kits when changing clocks to daylight savings time on March 14, 2010.

• NACCHO Survey Shows Local Health Departments Lost 16,000 Jobs in 2009 - 03-MAR-2010    The latest job loss survey by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) found that local health departments lost 16,000 jobs in 2009. NACCHO estimates that about 15 percent of the local public health workforce has disappeared in the last two years.

• Council on Linkages Prepares to Survey the Public Health Workforce - 03-MAR-2010    To assist the nation in developing evidence-based recruitment and retention strategies for the U.S. public health system, the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice is launching a survey of public health workers who are users of the public health learning management system TRAIN.

• Report Shows Federal Spending for Public Health Flat for Nearly Five Years - 03-MAR-2010    A March 2010 report from the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) found federal spending for public health has been flat for nearly five years, and that states in the Midwest received the least federal funding support for disease prevention at public health.

• Gallup Poll Identifies the Most Obese Metro Areas in the US - 03-MAR-2010    Data the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index collected in 2009 reveal that Montgomery, AL, and Stockton, CA, are the most obese metro areas in the U.S. and that areas ranking high on obesity generally rank low on healthy behaviors.

• NACCHO Requests Comments from LHDs on Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records - 03-MAR-2010    The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is requesting local health departments (LHDs) to submit comments about the meaningful use of electronic health record (EHR) technology. Comments are due to NACCHO by March 12.

• CDC Releases County Level Report on Heart Disease Hospitalizations - 03-MAR-2010    A new report released by the CDC shows that heart disease hospitalization rates among Americans aged 65 years and older vary substantially depending on where they live.

• APHA Urges Leaders to Move Forward on Health Reform - 25-FEB-2010    The American Public Health Association (APHA) urges President Obama and congressional leaders to move forward on comprehensive, affordable health reform with a focus on prevention and wellness.

• CDC Recommends Universal Annual Influenza Vaccination - 25-FEB-2010    CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has expanded the recommendation for annual influenza vaccination to include all people aged 6 months and older.

• School Food Service Companies Pledge to Meet IOM Nutrition Standards - 25-FEB-2010    Food service companies ARAMARK, Sodexo, and Chartwells, who provide students with breakfasts and lunches at schools across the U.S., have announced they would meet the IOM's recommended school meal standards for fat, sugar, whole grains, and sodium.

• NACCHO Calls for Public Health Research Track Presentations - 22-FEB-2010    The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is seeking proposals for presentations on practice-based research experience for the NACCHO Annual Meeting, July 14-16, 2010, Memphis TN. Presentation proposals are due February 28, 2010.

• Obama Administration Details Healthy Food Financing Initiative - 22-FEB-2010    The Obama Administration has released details of an over $400 million Healthy Food Financing Initiative, which will bring grocery stores and other healthy food retailers to underserved urban and rural communities across America.

• Launch of First County-By-County Health Rankings - 18-FEB-2010    The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the University of Wisconsin have released the first-ever county-by-county health rankings. The County Health Rankings will give public health and community leaders a simple way to measure the health of every county in every state in the nation, so they can see how well they are doing and where they need to improve.

• CDC to Monitor Reactions and Errors Associated with Blood Transfusions - 18-FEB-2010    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched the first national surveillance system to monitor adverse events in patients who receive blood transfusions.

• Health, United States, 2009 Released - 18-FEB-2010    The latest report on the nation's health from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) shows growing medical technology use.

• Next Generation of Flu Vaccines Coming of Age: Cell-Based Technology May Replace Egg-Based Flu Vaccines - 18-FEB-2010    The Nation's Health reports on efforts to develop new and better flu vaccines.

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