2019 CityHealth Policy Assessment
Nov 19, 2019CityHealth, an initiative of the de Beaumont Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, released its 2019 CityHealth Policy Assessment. This report rates the 40 largest cities in the United States on how they have advanced policies that improve the health of their citizens.
November is American Diabetes Month! Think Inclusion!
Oct 24, 2019November is American Diabetes Month! NCHPAD has created an online Diabetes Prevention Awareness Campaign to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in Diabetes prevention programs and interventions.
Leveraging Community Knowledge through Community-Based Participatory Research
Oct 24, 2019Within public health and increasingly in health care, there is interest in understanding how to more effectively work with communities to identify their health priorities and incorporate consumer voice into program design. Community-based participatory research (CBPR)is one such strategy to meaningfully engage consumers’ perspectives.
Want to Find Out if You’re at Risk for Prediabetes? Google It!
Aug 02, 2019More than 1 in 3 adults in the United States have Prediabetes, and 90% don’t even know they have it. Could you be one of them? There is an easy way to find out if you or a loved one may have Prediabetes—just Google it!
Understanding Medicaid Buy-In: A Tool To Advance Employment for People with Disabilities
Aug 02, 2019Medicaid “buy-in” allows workers with disabilities access to Medicaid community-based services not available through other insurers. Nationally, workforce participation among people with disabilities is significantly lower than those without disabilities.
Public Health WINS Is a Call to Arms as Well as a Roadmap for All Who Care About a Thriving, Healthy Nation
May 03, 2019In January the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) in partnership with the deBeaumont Foundation, released the Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (WINS.) This survey, conducted in 2017, is the only nationally representative data source of the governmental public workforce. PH WINS is a national survey of state and local public health agency employees.
Addressing Social Determinants of Health Can Improve Community Health & Reduce Costs
Oct 29, 2019The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation released a new infographic entitled "Addressing Social Determinants of Health Can Improve Community Health & Reduce Costs." The infographic was developed from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Health Rankings Model and the McKinsey 2019 Consumer Social Determinants of Health Survey.
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- Exercise Guidelines for People with Disabilities
- Can Disability, Chronic Conditions, Health and Wellness Coexist?
- Benefits and Barriers To Fitness For Children With Disabilities
- Health Promotion for People With Disabilities: The Emerging Paradigm Shift From Disability Prevention to Prevention of Secondary Conditions
- Best Practice of Inclusive Services: The Value of Inclusion
- Health Promotion for People with Physical, Cognitive and Sensory Disabilities: An Emerging National Priority
- Motivation Through Goal Setting
- Therapeutic Recreation Services
- Access Board Issues New Accessibility Guidelines
- Exercise is Medicine
- Research on Physical Activity and Disability: an Emerging National Priority
- Playgrounds for All
- Recreation Access Rights
- Health Disparities, Equity, and Disability
- Community Health Inclusion Sustainability Planning Guide
- Physical Therapist's Perspective of Community Integration
- Restoring Play to All Children
- Municipal Partners for Inclusive Recreation: A Model of Success in St. Louis County
- Complete Streets
- Planning for Inclusion: Implementing an Accessibility Management Program in a Parks and Recreation Business Model
- Exercise Intervention Research on Persons with Disabilities
- Community Inclusion Model: City of Reno
- Stages of Change
- Community Health Inclusion Index
- Livable Communities
- Examining Health Disparities among Adults with Disabilities and What It Means for Public Health
- Museums, Zoos and Aquariums: Enhancing Accessibility
- Physical Activity & People With Disabilities INFOGRAPHIC
- Inclusive Programming through Policy