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Happy Public Health Week, Oklahoma! Today marks the beginning of a week dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of public health. Today we shine a spotlight on Civic Engagement and its crucial role in shaping our state's health outcomes. A recent analysis revealed a strong link between civic engagement and state health outcomes. States with higher levels of civic engagement and voter participation tend to have better public health outcomes. Let's harness the power of civic engagement here in Oklahoma to create positive change and improve the health and well-being of our communities!  #PublicHealthWeek #CivicEngagement #OklahomaHealth 

The Day 1 Public Health Topic for National Public Health Week focuses on Civic Engagement. Voting and other forms of civic engagement shape our community and how it allocates resources to support opportunities for healthy lives. Studies show better public health outcomes in states where more people vote. Visit www.NPHW.org to learn more about how you can enhance civic engagement within your community. #APHA #NPHW #CHCs #HCNs #FQHCs #CHCs #ValueCHCs #publichealthweek

What is civic engagement? Civic engagement, the actions that we and our communities take to identify and address problems, shapes our opportunities to be healthy. By taking actions to get more civically engaged, like voting, we exercise our right to make decisions about our communities, like whether our neighborhoods have walkable sidewalks, how much funding goes to reproductive health clinics in our states and how prepared the nation’s infrastructure is for future pandemics and disasters. A recent analysis of civic engagement and state health outcomes from 1996 to 2020 showed that in states where people are more civically engaged and vote more, public health outcomes are better.

It's American Public Health Association's National Public Health Week! Today's theme is civic engagement: Did you know that 1 in 5 (20.3%) teenagers in California have volunteered to solve a problem in the community? Discover more data from our California Health Interview Survey: ask.chis.ucla.edu #NPHW #NationalPublicHealthWeek

Voting and civic engagement is vital for public health. It has been found that communities that have more civic engagement have better health outcomes. Learn more about the impacts of civic engagement on public health: https://lnkd.in/gZPk5qyD #HealhtierNJ #PublicHealthWeek #CivicEngagement

Civic engagement is the actions that we and our communities take to identify and address problems, which helps shape our opportunities to be healthy. By taking actions to get more civically engaged, like voting, we exercise our right to make decisions about our communities, like whether our neighborhoods have walkable sidewalks, how much funding goes to reproductive health clinics in our states and how prepared the nation’s infrastructure is for future pandemics and disasters. Learn more about different ways to improve your civic engagement here: https://loom.ly/0LnKquA American Public Health Association

American Public Health Association released seven new public health policy statements last week. They are focused on the critical issues of vaccine equity, youth physical activity programs, incarcerated patient care, forcible displacement of people living unsheltered, fall prevention in older adults and public health requests within enduring international conflict. These policies will help shape APHA's position on legislation and regulations and be utilized to write briefs, fact sheets, reports and statements on these public health topics. These policies often help guide local chapters, nonprofits, and even governmental organizations to set policies and help envision a path forward. #publichealth #policymaking #policy https://lnkd.in/gtD_MXzU

#PressRelease: NACCHO has released two new policy statements regarding strategies to prevent intimate partner violence and protecting public health authority for local health departments. In recent years, efforts to undermine the legal authority of public health officials has been seen at the federal, state, and local level. NACCHO’s policy statement expresses support for policies that aim to ensure that public health officials can continue to protect the health of everyone living in the United States and supports legislation and policies that affirm public health authority. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is common and impacts millions of people in the United States each year. NACCHO’s policy statement expresses support for public health approaches at the national, state, and local levels that promote community partnerships, legal protections, housing and other basic needs, and prevention, intervention, and education. ➡️Read the full press release here: https://ow.ly/Wjac50SnXQX

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👉 National Public Health Week Spotlight: Today, BHPN would like to uplift Hennepin County Public Health Department. We had the opportunity to highlight the public health department’s Community Health Improvement Partnership (CHIP) in our new public health primer which focuses on uplifting cross-sector partnerships that are working across sectors to advance health and racial equity. The coalition of partners prioritized the unique challenges that BIPOC communities often face and worked with communities to identify community-driven solutions that increased community engagement and involvement when planning and implementing programs to advance health and racial equity efforts. Learn more about how this program focused on community-level involvement and worked with various sectors to address disparities. https://ow.ly/617y50R7ZuM #NPHW #CrossSectorCollaboration #CommunityEngagement #RacialEquity #CommunityDrivenSolutions