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WISCONSIN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION |
Welcome to the Wisconsin Public Health Association Webpage. WPHA is an organization dedicated to promoting sound public health policy and providing public health education for its members and the people of Wisconsin.
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Association of Local Health Departments and Boards
American Public Health Association 2005 Affiliate of the Year!
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In The News UW- Milwaukee to Offer New Public Health Certificate Program Wisconsin: Case Study in Public Health Law Benjamin Meier (Columbia University), James Hodge (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), and Kristin Gebbe (Columbia University) The Turning Point Model State Public Health Act (Turning Point Act), published in September 2003, provides a comprehensive template for states interested in public health law reform and modernization. This case study examines the political and policy efforts undertaken in Wisconsin following the development of the Turning Point Act. It is the third of a series of case studies to assess several states’ considerations of reform of public health law pursuant to the Turning Point Act. Click here to view a full copy of the case study at the following link.
Mending and Extending the Safety Net: Increasing Access to Primary Preventive Care (Reproductive Health Care, too) The preventive health care safety net is full of holes, tears and patch mismatches. A sharp-eyed inspection of the reproductive health care section would show substantial pieces damaged by ill-intentioned rips and malicious budget cuts. With a new congressional majority, there’s an urgent opportunity for advocates of access to primary care and specifically to reproductive health care to move forward on major repairs by passing two pending federal legislative proposals. These bills have been low profile, but they would be high impact. They would extend and mend vital panels of the safety net while saving taxpayer dollars. Copy of full article available at this link.
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