Reach MNO Success Stories – 2014
A look at how six minority-serving national organizations are working to decrease health disparities… Read More
SOPHE offers a wealth of health education and health promotion resources across the field. Browse SOPHE books and publications.
A look at how six minority-serving national organizations are working to decrease health disparities… Read More
Slides from 2012 SOPHE webinar Advocacy 101 : The future of public health and health education… Read More
SOPHE’s PICH Funding Toolkit to educate policymakers about the PICH program – Partnerships to Improve Community Health (PICH) Funding: Virtual Advocacy Day Participant Guide Components: Current PICH grantees Appropriation letters and...… Read More
The link between health and academic performance is closely connected and related. Health education in school curricula can reduce risky behaviors and improve healthy behaviors, better nutrition and physical activity… Read More
This policy brief examines the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA), the nation’s primary federal K-12 education statute, and explores avenues to advocate for health education curricula in the...… Read More
SOPHE recognizes physical activity reduces the risk of morbidity and premature mortality including heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, colon cancer; improves mood and reduces feelings of depression and anxiety;...… Read More
SOPHE recognizes that 35% of high school youth currently smoke cigarettes; each day, 3,000 kids become regular smokers, and one-third will eventually die from tobacco-related disease; and the rate of...… Read More
Eighty-five percent of privately insured persons and 52%* of the overall U.S. population is enrolled in some type of managed care . . .… Read More
Gun-related deaths are second only to motor vehicle-related deaths as a cause of injury death in the United States . . .… Read More
SOPHE recognizes that the systematic silencing, disregard, and violation of trust has a negative effect on health and well-being of under-represented communities, including sexual orientation minority communities, by continuing to...… Read More
SOPHE acknowledges that asthma is a serious, chronic respiratory disease that affects an estimated 15 million individuals, including an estimated 4.4 million children in the United States . . .… Read More
SOPHE recognizes that the health and well-being of communities and the individuals within them is dependent not only on biological but also social and environmental factors, and that underrepresented communities...… Read More