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The Center for Health Promotion and Education incorporated programs in lifestyle studies, nutrition, family planning, and anti-smoking activities. The Center for Prevention Services and the Center for Professional Development and Training inherited CDC's traditional service functions.
The Florida Educator Accomplished Practices, or FEAPs, are core standards provided by the Florida Department of Education for teacher development, detailing the knowledge and skills teachers are expected to have. They provide the framework for Florida's teaching prep programs, certification requirements, and teacher assessment systems.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Prevention Information Network (CDC NPIN) is a source of information and materials for both international and American HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, and Sexually Transmitted Disease education and prevention organizations.
As heroin use rose, so did overdose deaths. The statistics are overwhelming. In a study released this past fall examining 28 states, the CDC found that heroin deaths doubled between 2010 and 2012. The CDC reported recently that heroin-related overdose deaths jumped 39 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2013, surging to 8,257.
The ATSDR is formally and administratively overseen by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), [3] currently Mandy Cohen since July 10, 2023 [12] Direction is provided by ATSDR's Director, currently Patrick N. Breysse, [3] who ranks below the Administrator, and ATSDR's Associate Director, currently Christopher M ...
A 1985 National Research Council report entitled Injury in America [2] recommended that United States Congress establish a new program at the CDC to address the problem of injury. Initially the program was supported with funds from the United States Department of Transportation. In 1990 Congress passed the Injury Control Act which authorized ...
This overdose prevention center is a pivotal element in the state's comprehensive efforts to combat this crisis," Colleen Daley Ndoye, executive director of Project Weber/RENEW, said in a statement.
Prescription drug monitoring programs, or PDMPs, are an example of one initiative proposed to alleviate effects of the opioid crisis. [1] The programs are designed to restrict prescription drug abuse by limiting a patient's ability to obtain similar prescriptions from multiple providers (i.e. “doctor shopping”) and reducing diversion of controlled substances.