Fact Sheets
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (see Health Reform)
APPROPRIATIONS AND BUDGET
- 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
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH TRACKING
- A Map to Better Health: Success Stories of CDC's National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Emergency Preparedness:
- Sheltering in place: What you need to know to stay put during a disaster
- Power outages: How to get ready for power outages
- How to prepare for an evacuation
- Mental health and disasters: Taking care of your emotional health
Infectious Disease:
- Bird flu: Understanding H5N1
- COVID-19: What people in the U.S. need to know
- Measles: Get the facts
- Mosquitoes: How to stay safe from mosquito-borne diseases
- Mpox: Take safety measures to prevent spread of the disease formerly known as monkeypox
- Seasonal flu: How to protect yourself and your family
Natural Disasters:
- Droughts: How to save water and be ready
- Earthquakes: How to get ready for earthquakes
- Floods: How to get ready for floods
- Heat waves: How to get ready for a heat wave
- Hurricanes: How to get ready for hurricanes
- Landslides: How to get ready for landslides
- Tornadoes: How to get ready for a tornado
- Tsunamis: How to get ready for a tsunami
- Wildfire smoke: How to get ready for wildfire smoke
- Winter storms: How to get ready for a winter storm
Other Disasters and Emergencies:
- Chemical exposures: How to avoid chemical exposure during a disaster
- Home disasters: Tips for preventing a disaster at home
- Nuclear/radiation safety: How to get ready for a nuclear or radiological disaster
- Work emergencies: How to get ready for an emergency at work
Pregnant People and Families with Infants:
- Preparedness facts: General information for pregnant people and families with infants
- Preparedness facts: Creating a disaster kit
- Earthquake preparedness for families
- Hurricane preparedness
- Tornado preparedness
- Wildfire preparedness
For People Living with Disabilities:
- General information for people living with disabilities
- For people who are blind or have low vision
- For people with cognitive challenges
- For people who are deaf or have hearing loss
- For people with mobility challenges
- 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
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
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