Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Preparing for the Next Pandemic
Introduction During the last two years, everyday life has been defined by numerous challenges created by COVID-19, including societal restrictions, overflowing hospitals, and consistent illness and death. While COVID-19 itself ...
COVID-19 Lessons Learned Inform Retrospectives of State Responses and Pandemic Preparedness
By Rawson Pino and Margot Thistle As COVID-19 became a national pandemic in the United States in early 2020, states across the country scrambled to respond with public health strategies ...
Analyzing the Effects of Public Health Messaging on Vaccine Hesitancy
Introduction To date, the COVID-19 vaccination effort has been largely successful for the United States; however, vaccine hesitancy is a major factor preventing the nation from reaching herd immunity. The ...
Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and Syndromic Surveillance
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to capture and securely share patient information via health information exchanges (HIE). HIEs across the nation have been critically important in helping healthcare ...
Digital Health Literacy Inequities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digitization of healthcare services, as safety precautions prompted a transition of care delivery from in-person to virtual. The health risks posed by the COVID-19 virus ...
How States Can Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the greatest public health crisis of our lifetime—but fortunately, it has been met with a scientific response equally as strong. Multiple vaccines were created, tested, ...
Reflections on 2020 and Predictions for 2021
Continued Responses to COVID-19 State and Federal Responses to COVID-19 in 2020 and Expectations for 2021 At the start of 2020, COVID-19 was a peripheral thought for most people in ...
Recent Key Developments are Major Turning Points in Health Policy
Earlier this month, all eyes were on two major events in the federal health policy world: the outcome of the election and the Supreme Court’s decision in California v. Texas. ...
Reducing Racial Disparities: Quality Improvement in Developmental Disability System Services
The COVID-19 pandemic has further compounded healthcare disparities faced by people of color and members of the disability community—a fact demonstrated in the National Association of State Directors of Developmental ...
COVID-19-Related Policy Developments Continue at the Federal Level
As the country continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, Federal agencies continue to provide guidance to states and providers as they respond to the pandemic. As in our March, ...