Immunization Update, Summer 2011

Monthly newsletter for the Iowa Department of Public Health

Bureau of HIV, STD, & Hepatitis Quarterly Newsletter, January — March 2011, Vol. 1

This newsletter of the Bureau of HIV, STD, and Hepatitis. The idea of the newsletter was to improve communication between the bureau and those who are delivering HIV, STD, and hepatitis prevention, surveillance, and care programs across the state. More specifically, we would like to use the newsletter as a vehicle through which we can improve prevention and care services in Iowa. We will try to do this by describing the services and programs we fund, and by reflecting on data that we collect to help prevention and care providers make decisions on policies, unmet needs, and service gaps in the state. At the same time, we will try to keep you abreast of new programs, resources, and policies that may affect the work that you do and the lives of those living with or affected by HIV, STDs, and viral hepatitis.

Iowa's Early Hearing and Intervention Program - Hearing Checklist, 2011

A simple checklist divided into sections by month showing the common progression of hearing ability of a child up to three years of age .

Access Update, August 2011

Monthly newsletter for the Iowa Department of Public Health

Girl Connection, August, 2011

A monthly newsletter for Iowa Commission on the Status of Women; Early On-Set of Puberty: More Important Than You Think

EPI Update, August 19, 2011

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

EPI Update, August 26, 2011

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

EPI Update, September 2, 2011

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

Emergency Letting Message of September 2, 2011

September 7, 2011 Emergency Letting for Flood Repairs to Highways.

Emergency Letting Message of September 2, 2011

September 7, 2011 Emergency Letting for Flood Repairs to Highways.

Iowa Department of Transportation Major Items - Preliminary Quantity Report, October 18, 2011; With Addendums

Weekly letting report.

Local Letting Information, September 8, 2011

Local letting information

Cigarette and Tobacco Receipts Report, August 2011

This is a report for the Iowa Department of Revenue and Finance about the receipts on cigarettes and tobacco for each month of the year. This receipt is the tax of each sale of cigarettes and tobacco.

Vendor Ranking, September 7, 2011

Vendor Ranking for letting reports from the Iowa Department of Transportation.

A Transportation Safety Planning Tool for the City of Ames, August 2011

The historically-reactive approach to identifying safety problems and mitigating them involves selecting black spots or hot spots by ranking locations based on crash frequency and severity. The approach focuses mainly on the corridor level without taking the exposure rate (vehicle miles traveled) and socio-demographics information of the study area, which are very important in the transportation planning process, into consideration. A larger study analysis unit at the Transportation Analysis Zone (TAZ) level or the network planning level should be used to address the needs of development of the community in the future and incorporate safety into the long-range transportation planning process. In this study, existing planning tools (such as the PLANSAFE models presented in NCHRP Report 546) were evaluated for forecasting safety in small and medium-sized communities, particularly as related to changes in socio-demographics characteristics, traffic demand, road network, and countermeasures. The research also evaluated the applicability of the Empirical Bayes (EB) method to network-level analysis. In addition, application of the United States Road Assessment Program (usRAP) protocols at the local urban road network level was investigated. This research evaluated the applicability of these three methods for the City of Ames, Iowa. The outcome of this research is a systematic process and framework for considering road safety issues explicitly in the small and medium-sized community transportation planning process and for quantifying the safety impacts of new developments and policy programs. More specifically, quantitative safety may be incorporated into the planning process, through effective visualization and increased awareness of safety issues (usRAP), the identification of high-risk locations with potential for improvement, (usRAP maps and EB), countermeasures for high-risk locations (EB before and after study and PLANSAFE), and socio-economic and demographic induced changes at the planning-level (PLANSAFE).