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IDPH Quick Reads is an electronic newsletter produced by the Director’s Office at the Iowa Department of Public Health. IDPH Quick Reads are published every three to four weeks.

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IDPH Quick Reads - May 14, 2013  Adobe Acrobat File

  • Legislative Session winding down
  • Director's Walk
  • Iowa Youth Survey
  • New Board members welcomed
  • Quarterly Regional Public Health Meetings underway
  • PRAMS
  • Congrats and kudos

Archive Issues

IDPH Quick Reads - December 7, 2012  Adobe Acrobat File

  • 2012 in review
  • IHIN goes live
  • Upcoming Legislative Session
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - November 14, 2012  Adobe Acrobat File

  • Bullying Prevention
  • National Rural Health Day
  • Local Governmental Public Health Baseline Report
  • Happy 'Movember'
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - October 11, 2012  Adobe Acrobat File

  • ACA Update - where does public health fit into the healthcare delivery system
  • SHL Advisory Board
  • Board of Medicine joins effort to strengthen patient care
  • Direct Secure Messaging operational
  • Quality Improvement update
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - September 18, 2012  Adobe Acrobat File

  • ASTHO President's challenge accepted
  • Environmental health tracking program
  • WIC online nutrition education
  • IHHS survey
  • Quality Improvement update
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - August 15, 2012  Adobe Acrobat File

  • ACA ruling impact
  • Internet Partner Services
  • Oral health
  • Farm Progress Show
  • Quality Improvement update
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - July 17, 2012  Adobe Acrobat File

  • Welcome
  • Statewide HIV plan
  • IRIS implementation continues
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - June 14, 2012  Adobe Acrobat File

  • IRIS
  • Falls prevention conference
  • Facebook
  • ACEs
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - May 14, 2012  Adobe Acrobat File

  • Cost of sexual violence
  • Pertussis
  • HIV/AIDS plan
  • Put it down
  • 1st Five
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - April 16, 2012  Adobe Acrobat File

  • Public health conference
  • E-health bill signed into law
  • CPPW success
  • Governor's conference on substance abuse
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - March 13, 2012  Adobe Acrobat File

  • State health plan
  • LOL
  • Inter-agency partnership
  • Health literacy conference
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - February 20, 2012  Adobe Acrobat File

  • I-WALK
  • Child sex abuse prevention report
  • I-SMILE report
  • AIDS drug assistance program
  • I-SERV
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - January 23, 2012  Adobe Acrobat File

  • 2012 Legislative session underway
  • e-Prescribing
  • Mild flu season...for now
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - December 14, 2011  Adobe Acrobat File

  • Happy and healthy holidays
  • Accreditation update
  • IDPH leads veteran's behavioral health initiative
  • A climb to the top
  • Cancer plan
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - November 7, 2011  Adobe Acrobat File

  • Baseline survey of Iowa's governmental public health system
  • Rural Health Day is November 17
  • What is Public Health?
  • Preparedness in action
  • A Thanksgiving public health reminder
  • Local boards of health
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - October 12, 2011  Adobe Acrobat File

  • Influenza season underway
  • Public Health Modernization
  • Health disparities
  • Successful grant applications
  • IDPH home page launched
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - September 14, 2011  Adobe Acrobat File

  • Iowa Health Fact Book
  • IDPH Twitter Feed
  • National HIV/AIDS strategy implementation dialogue
  • Governor Branstad issues public health proclamations
  • IDPH inventory of programs
  • Sealant report posted
  • Congrats and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - August 15, 2011  Adobe Acrobat File

  • State of Weight in Iowa
  • Access to Recovery partners with Iowa National Guard
  • Iowa Food Assistance program honored
  • IDPH partners with DIA, SHL
  • Iowa Immunization Conference presentations online
  • Congratulations and kudos

IDPH Quick Reads - July 20, 2011  Adobe Acrobat File

  • Budget update
  • IDPH IMS deactivated; flood surveillance continues
  • Access to Recovery staff selected by SAMHSA
  • Rural and Agricultural Health & Resource Plan released
  • CADE report released
  • Congratulations and kudos

Quick Reads - June 10, 2011  Adobe Acrobat File

  • IDPH joins state, local agencies in flood preparation
  • Ten great public health achievements
  • 2011 Immunization Conference attended by nearly 800
  • Iowa hospital facts website
  • Congratulations and kudos