National healthcare quality & disparities reports
Tools for measuring health care quality, including the National Healthcare Disparities and Quality Reports, AHRQ Quality Indicators, and ambulatory clinical performance measures.… Read More
SOPHE offers a wealth of health education and health promotion resources across the field. Browse SOPHE books and publications.
Tools for measuring health care quality, including the National Healthcare Disparities and Quality Reports, AHRQ Quality Indicators, and ambulatory clinical performance measures.… Read More
Clinical and community prevention efforts should be mutually reinforcing and appropriate health care provided in clinical settings, recommending community-based prevention efforts, and providing environments that enhance health.… Read More
Promoting health equity by educating key stakeholders A guide for SOPHE Chapters… Read More
A look at how six minority-serving national organizations are working to decrease health disparities… Read More
Slides from 2012 SOPHE webinar Advocacy 101 : The future of public health and health education… Read More
SOPHE’s PICH Funding Toolkit to educate policymakers about the PICH program – Partnerships to Improve Community Health (PICH) Funding: Virtual Advocacy Day Participant Guide Components: Current PICH grantees Appropriation letters and...… Read More
The link between health and academic performance is closely connected and related. Health education in school curricula can reduce risky behaviors and improve healthy behaviors, better nutrition and physical activity… Read More
This policy brief examines the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA), the nation’s primary federal K-12 education statute, and explores avenues to advocate for health education curricula in the...… Read More
SOPHE recognizes physical activity reduces the risk of morbidity and premature mortality including heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, colon cancer; improves mood and reduces feelings of depression and anxiety;...… Read More
SOPHE recognizes that 35% of high school youth currently smoke cigarettes; each day, 3,000 kids become regular smokers, and one-third will eventually die from tobacco-related disease; and the rate of...… Read More
Eighty-five percent of privately insured persons and 52%* of the overall U.S. population is enrolled in some type of managed care . . .… Read More
Gun-related deaths are second only to motor vehicle-related deaths as a cause of injury death in the United States . . .… Read More