Thomas Flaherty, Director of Development and Marketing at Energy Coordinating Agency, discusses the connection between indoor air quality, housing, and health.
Iowa Department of Public Health will review current substance use disorder rates in Iowa and surveillance to eliminate HIV and HCV throughout the state. The Clinician Consultation Network of University of California San Francisco will review resources available for providers treating hepatitis and co-occurring substance use orders, such as the Warm Line for consultation of cases.
A discussion with representatives from the HUD Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes during National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week where we learn about best practices for keeping families safe from lead.
NASTAD discusses the current landscape of opioid and infectious disease and resources available for health settings to improve screening, testing, and treatment options for patients.
This webinar provides a national perspective of how the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and opioid use disorder epidemics are connected and what health centers can do to address them. We heard from Lauren Canary from the CDC about expansion of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and what resources are available to providers.
As the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is emerging as a serious public health problem in tandem with the opioid epidemic, health centers have the opportunity to decrease its impact with standardized screening, linkage to care and treatment protocols. This case study highlights how five health centers nationally are addressing the increased rates of HCV infection and its intersection with the opioid epidemic.
