Fact Sheets

In addition to everything here, visit APHA's Get Ready page for fact sheets and infographics on preparedness, disasters, COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (see Health Reform)

APPROPRIATIONS AND BUDGET

• Public Health Funding: CDC and HRSA Fact Sheet 

CLIMATE CHANGE

• Energy Justice and Climate Change: Key Concepts for Public Health
• How public health professionals can advance an energy just future
• Health Impacts of Climate Change in: Alaska | California | Midwest | Northeast | Northern Great Plains | Southeast | Southern Great Plains | Southwest 
• Health Approaches to Climate Change: How do health care providers and public health professionals approach climate change differently?
• Making the Connection: Changing Climate Through Healthy Community Design and Transportation
• Making the Connection: Climate Changes Allergies and Asthma
• Making the Connection: Climate Changes Children's Health
• Making the Connection: Climate Changes Mental Health
• Climate Change Decreases the Quality of the Air We Breathe
• Extreme Heat Can Impact Our Health in Many Ways
• Extreme Rainfall and Drought
• Climate Change Increases the Number of Geographic Range of Disease-Carrying Insects and Ticks
• Warmer Water and Flooding Increase the Risk of Illness and Injury

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

• See www.aphagetready.org

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

• The Value of Environmental Health Services
• Investing in a Robust Environmental Health System

ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH TRACKING

• A Map to Better Health: Success Stories of CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
  

GENERAL INFORMATION

• What is Public Health?
  
• Health Impact Assessment — A Tool to Benefit Health in all Policies

HEALTH EQUITY

• Creating the Healthiest Nation: Advancing Health Equity
• Creating the Healthiest Nation: Children's Environmental Health
• Creating the Healthiest Nation: Environmental Justice for All
• Creating the Healthiest Nation: Food Justice
• Creating the Healthiest Nation: Health and Educational Equity
• Creating the Healthiest Nation: Opportunity Youth
• Creating the Healthiest Nation: Prioritizing Youth at Risk of Disconnection
• Creating the Healthiest Nation: Water and Health Equity
• COVID-19 Vaccination: An Equitable Response
• Vacunación Contra La COVID-19: Una Respuesta Equitativa
• Racial Equity

HEALTH REFORM

• Why Do We Need the Affordable Care Act? (January 2017)
• Zubik v. Burwell and public health at a glance (June 2016)
• Affordable Care Act Overview (August 2012)
• Why Do We Need the Affordable Care Act? (August 2012)

PREVENTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH FUND

• The Prevention and Public Health Fund

PUBLIC HEALTH LAW

• What is Public Health Law
• Due Process and Public Health
• Federal Protection of Personal Health Information
• Overview of Food Safety
• Overview of Nuisance Law
• Regulation of Synthetic Drugs

TOBACCO

• Preventing Youth Smoking

TRANSPORTATION

• Fighting for Equitable Transportation: Why It Matters
• Equity Atlases: How Data and Maps Can Illuminate Transportation and Equity
• Transportation and Public Health
• Equity and Health Issues in Transportation
• Transportation, Climate Change and Public Health
• Transportation Health Impact Assessment
• Safe Routes to School and Public Health
• Complete Streets and Public Health
• Active Transportation

VIOLENCE PREVENTION

• Gun Violence Prevention
• Suicide Prevention
• Who Gets Killed in America? The National Violent Death Reporting System is Keeping Track
• Personal Safety in Safe Routes to School: Addressing Violence and Crime in Your Community