Using Media to Advance Public Health Agendas
Strategic media work is an integral part of modern public health practice. This article describes how Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS) and others have worked with the media, and encourages Local Health Departments (LHDs) to view media work as core to their essential functions.
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Newsletters
- Director's Report (PDF)
- [Archives]
- Health Sense: Newsletter for Contra Costa Health Plan
- Behavioral Health Connection
- EMS Best Practices
- Tobacco Prevention Project Update
Guidebooks
- Communicable Disease Guide
- Youth Power Curriculum
- Preventing Chronic Disease: A Guide For Local Health Departments (web and PDF versions)
- Chronic Disease Prevention: A Framework
- Healthy Neighborhoods Project (PDF)
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Case Studies
- Reducing Health Disparities: Breast Cancer Early Diagnosis
- Have Fun But Don't Shoot Your Gun
- Prevention of Tobacco Use
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Pamphlets
Articles & Abstracts
- Using Media to Advance Public Health Agendas (PDF)
- Briefing Paper on Impact of the Economy on Health Access in East Contra Costa County (PDF)
- Health Disparities in Contra Costa (PDF)
- Environmental Justice Framework: A Public Health Approach (PDF)
- Planning Communities: What Health Has to Do With It (PDF)
- Photovoice: Giving Local Health Departments a New Perspective on Community Health Issues (PDF)
- Community Engagement in Public Health (PDF)
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Reports
- The Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption:
- Richmond Residents (PDF)
- San Pablo Residents (PDF)
- Health Indicators in Contra Costa County
- CCRMC Cancer Program Annual Report - 2010 (PDF)
- Blue print for Asthma Action:
- Domestic Violence Death Review Team Report - November 2005 (PDF)
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Videos Online
- Lock It Up: Preventing Teen Alcohol Abuse (8:30)
- Supervisor Glover Says It's Not Too Late to Get Your Flu Shot (1:30)
- My Mom's My Hero PSA (0:34)
- West Nile Virus General Overview (4:58)
- Preventing West Nile Virus (7:51)
- Equine West Nile (11:10)
- "Get Older Americans Ready" (5:25)
- "Get Your Family Ready" (3:09)
- "Get Youself and Your Pets Ready" (4:20)
- "Get Americans with Disabilities or Special Needs Ready" (4:55)
- I Choose Video | Yo Decido Video (0:48)
- Tour of Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (11:42)
- Avian Flu and Seasonal Flu (30:19)
- Avian Flu and Seasonal Flu Clip (6:48)
- Spectrum of Prevention (19:00)
- Disaster Service Workers (11:56)
- Clearing Your Home of Asthma Triggers (5:47)
- Child Obesity (4:58)
- Residency Program Recruitment (8:10)
- TV & the Family (1:01)
- Flu Shot Facts (5:10)
- HPV Vaccine (5:15)

