Health Policy and Environmental Change
Toolkit
Directors of Health Promotion and Education
Publications and Online Tools
This toolkit is
designed to make DHPE research, reports and tools easily available to
practitioners and policy makers. Available at www.dhpe.org/PolicyTools.htm
Policy and Environmental Change, New
Directions for Public Health Published
2001
Results of a study of the use of health policy and environmental change
interventions by public health agencies across the
Policy and Environmental Change, New Direction
for Public Health, Executive Summary Published 2001Condense version of the above document with recommendation
highlights.
Communicating
the Effectiveness of Health Promotion to State Decision-makers and Legislators
Published 2003. This report
reviews the evidence that indicates that public health programs are effective
and effective ways to communicate proven strategies to public health decision-makers
and legislators at the state level.
Policy and Environmental Change: A
Second Look at Public Health Agency Involvement Published
2006 Revisit the state of practice for health policy and environmental change
interventions by public health agencies and collection of case stories from
state and local health agencies.
Specialized Competencies for the
Public Health Workforce Published 2007
Use this competency list to help train health agency staff and develop position
descriptions for hiring key health policy staff.
Case Studies from State and Local Health
Agencies Online 2007
Learn how state health agencies have worked with partner organizations to
impact public policies. This is a collection of 51 case studies from across the
country.
Tools
for Health Policy and Environmental Change Online 2007
Concise fact sheets targeting important
competencies.
·
Overview
·
Laws and Guidelines Regarding Your
Involvement in Shaping Health Policy
·
Creating Effective
Political Relationships
·
Influencing the Change
Process
