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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 

Join CHP on January 8 at 1pm for "Housing is Health Justice: What’s At Stake and What To Prioritize in 2025." This webinar will identify policies that could be advanced on the federal, state, and/or local levels of policymaking to advance housing and health justice, reform the current eviction system in the United States, and prevent evictions and homelessness through a public health perspective. https://lnkd.in/d7B7RNdg

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

Matters are reaching a point of no return within social care, and this open letter to Helen Whateley MP, Minister for Health and Social Care, highlights the critical issues facing the social care sector. I personally (as will others within the industry) look forward to her response, and am hopeful for steps to be taken to improve these issues. #CareIndustry #OpenLetter #SocialCare

It is important that health and social care professionals work in partnership with the people they support to ensure that they feel supported and protected. For #SafeguardingAdultsWeek, explore how practitioners can support adults to live free from harm, abuse and neglect using Research in Practice resources. https://ow.ly/RLql50U952o

Happy National Public Health Week! One group in public health that supports civic engagement is Community Health Workers (CHWs). And an issue impacting CHWs that could be changed by civic engagement is CHW certification. You may have noticed that I took CHW off my profile. That’s because I was certified in a state with a state-operated program and then moved to a state without a program, meaning I could not transfer my certification, even though I continue to work on a significant public health issue: domestic abuse. And it turns out there is not yet a national certification program for CHWs, plus about half of all U.S. states don’t have a certification program. Should CHWs even have to be certified? Interested to hear your thoughts. #NPHW #NPHWChat #CHW #CommunityHealthWorker #PublicHealth #PublicHealthSocialWork #SocialWork #MacroSocialWork #MacroSW

Today’s #NPHW theme is Healthy Neighborhoods. Small changes make a big impact: cultivate healthier neighborhoods one action at a time! Let’s create spaces where everyone thrives. Support your local community health agencies and learn more about American Public Health Association (APHA) priorities and policies. Together we thrive. Invest in Public Health. https://shorturl.at/lowJ6

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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

"The keynote presentations and panel challenged me to think more about how we can leverage and strengthen a human rights approach to death, dying, grief and bereavement, especially in the context of constrained health and social care systems and in the face of growing needs." A/Prof Aileen Collier unpacks public health palliative care in the latest blog for RePaDD with reflections from the 3rd International Seminar on Public Health Research in Palliative Care. Read the full blog: https://lnkd.in/ey7XkCWh #PublicHealth #PalliativeCare #ResearchNotes