Public Health is for Everyone An inclusive planning toolkit for public health professionals

You take medicines to help with health problems. Medicines can help you live a healthier life. You
have to be careful because medicines can also cause problems. There are four things you should
do to be safe.

This fact sheet provides important information on effective medicine use for women with intellectual disailities. Medicines can treat health problems and help you live a healthier life. When used incorrectly, medicines can also cause serious health problems. Many of these problems can be prevented. Learn four (4) tips to avoid common medicine mistakes.

This course tells the story of one community's efforts to collaborate on improvements to its emergency shelter plans. You are invited to participate in these efforts, working with the county's Emergency Manager and other stakeholders to update plans last revised five years ago. As the story unfolds, you encounter questions asking you to identify relevant facts or to select the best course of action for making improvements to the planning process and its outcomes. Need help answering a question? Click on Help to see excerpts from publications included in the FNSS Resource Toolkit that comes with this training.

Iowa Department of Public Health 

How your child plays, learns, speaks, and acts offers important clues about your child's development.
Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age. Take this with you and talk with your child's doctor at every visit about the milestones your child has reached and what to expect next.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

La manera en que su hijo juega, aprende, habla y actúa nos ofrece pistas importantes sobre cómo se está desarrollando el niño. Los indicadores del desarrollo son las cosas que la mayoría de los niños pueden hacer a una edad eterminada. En cada visita médica de su hijo, lleve esta información y hable con el pediatra sobre los indicadores que su hijo alcanzó y cuáles son los que debería alcanzar a continuación.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

This toolkit will serve as a foundation for a national effort that will enhance diversity, inclusion, and cultural and linguistic competence; cultivate partnerships; respond to increasingly diverse communities across the country; and develop strategies for continuing efforts to better serve diverse populations.

The Fogarty International Center has provided top news and resources that address the Zika Virus.At NIH, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is working with its partners in government, academia, and the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries to better understand Zika virus, the disease it causes, and ways to combat it. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at NIH is studying how Zika virus infection affects reproductive health, pregnancy, and the developing fetus. NIH is also funding many research projects to study Zika virus.

Guidelines and technical documents around Zika

Compared to people without disabilities, people with disabilities are at a higher risk for poor health outcomes such as hypertension, obesity, fall-related injuries, and depression. Knowledge about the health status and public health needs of people with disabilities is essential for addressing these and other health disparities. However, most public health training programs do not include curricula on people with disabilities and methods for including them in core public health efforts. There is a clear need for public health efforts to reduce health disparities among people with disabilities. This may be achieved by building a stronger public health workforce skilled in ways to include people with disabilities in all public health efforts.

Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)

This resource has information on the services that are provided through the Nutrition Service Program. The mission of the Nutrition Services Program is to improve the quantity and quality of nutrition services available to children and youth with disabilities in West Virginia and to increase awareness of the importance of nutrition services on the local, state and national levels.

Nutrition is essential for promoting growth and development in children and promoting and maintaining good health in adults. Good nutrition enables individuals to reach their full physical, mental, and emotional potential. Individuals with disabilities are often at risk for nutritional problems resulting from:

- Special eating or feeding problems that make it difficult to meet nutritional needs

- Movement or neurological limitations that affect activity levels and alter calorie needs

- Weight problems (overweight or under weight)

- Diets that are inappropriate or unbalanced

- Vitamin and mineral deficiencies and other side effects of long term or multiple medications

- Alternate forms of feeding, such as G & J feeding tubes

- Special nutrient requirements

Center for Excellence in Disabilities at WVU