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Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO chief medical officer, encourages ASTHO members to consider braiding and layering funding approaches; Carrie Poser, Continuum of Care director for the Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care, tells us how Wisconsin...
Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO chief medical officer, encourages ASTHO members to consider braiding and layering funding approaches; Carrie Poser, Continuum of Care director for the Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care, tells us how Wisconsin public health leaders are teaming up to address rising cases of homelessness in the state; and an ASTHO webinar with details from the State of Washington on how integrated data can enhance tobacco surveillance.
ASTHO Brief: Cross-Sector Collaboration to End Homelessness in Wisconsin
ASTHO Webinar: Lessons with the State of Washington on Medicaid Data and Tobacco Use
ROBERT JOHNSON:
This is the award-winning Public Health Review Morning Edition for Monday, July 8, 2024. I'm Robert Johnson. Now, today's news from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
MARCUS PLESCIA:
My concern is if we don't do this in a creative way, we're going to lose all of that ground?
JOHNSON:
ASTHO Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Marcus Plescia, talking about funds to hire community health workers that are beginning to expire. It's an example of the need to consider creative ways to work with existing funding sources. So progress made during the pandemic isn't lost.
PLESCIA:
We've made a lot of headway in the last few years because we've had some substantial funding come into public health. And I think now that we're on the back end of that, and some of those influxes of resources may be drying up, it's time to look at how can we maintain some of this work, using just different approaches to how we use the funding that we have.
JOHNSON:
In a new blog article. Plescia encourages ASTHO members to consider braiding and layering funding approaches.
PLESCIA:
There's actually a lot of latitude and I found the CDC is actually very permissive, as far as allowing, you know, some cross cutting use of funding, as long as you can justify it and kind of make either an argument for efficiency or an argument for, you know, greater reach or greater effectiveness.
JOHNSON:
You can read the article using the link in the show notes.
Wisconsin public health leaders are teaming up to address rising cases of homelessness in the state. One concern:
CARRIE POSER:
The discharge into homelessness from medical facilities was a pretty frequent activity.
JOHNSON:
Carrie Poser is with the Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care, a nonprofit organization supporting local coalition's united by a mission to end homelessness. Poser says more and more older adults suffering from complex health challenges are showing up on the street and in shelters.
POSER:
We all needed to better understand 40s And who has decision making power and who has statutory power? Who has the funding? And so kind of digging into all of that puts us in a better position to advocate for change, to ask for different, you know, rules, or ordinances, or whatever it needs to be, and hold people accountable when they're not following those rules.
JOHNSON:
A new ASTHO blog article explains how these organizations are working with the state of Wisconsin to address homelessness. There's a link in the show notes. Also today, non-traditional data sources can inform public health work. O'Keyla Cooper has more.
O'KEYLA COOPER:
Join ASTHO on Wednesday, July 17 at 12 p.m. Eastern Time for a webinar on lessons with the state of Washington on Medicaid data and tobacco use. This CDC funded project with public health Seattle and King County and the University of Washington identifies Medicaid enrolled tobacco users and analyzes their health care utilization. Participants can also download a report that explores how integrated data can enhance tobacco surveillance and inform targeted outreach, registration and report downloads are in the show notes.
JOHNSON:
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