295: Island Policy Working Group
Public Health Review Morning Edition
English - November 01, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 6.86 MB - ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Government healthcare health healthnews news publichealth Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Karl Ensign, ASTHO’s Vice President for Territorial Support, discusses the idea behind the Island Areas Workgroup, which is celebrating one year of connecting territories, freely associated states, and federal partners; ASTHO is making the case to include island areas in federal public health data sets; Dr. David Goodman, Team Lead for the Maternal Mortality Prevention Program at the CDC, responds to a new CDC report that says more than 84 percent of pregnancy-related deaths that occurred between 2017 and 2019 were preventable; and Public Health Thank You Day is Monday, November 21st.
ASTHO Webpage: Territories and Freely Associated States
ASTHO Report: Including Island Areas in Federal Public Health Datasets