How the APHA Maternal and Child Health Section Advanced the Public Health Approach to Gun Violence Prevention.

Purpose: This manuscript provides a history of efforts by the American Public Health Association (APHA) Maternal and Child Health Section (MCH Section) Gun Violence Prevention Workgroup (GVP Workgroup) to promote gun violence prevention (GVP) as a key public health priority both within the MCH Section and APHA, and nationally.

Description: The MCH Section established a gun violence prevention workgroup in response to the murders of twenty first-grade children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. This article presents an overview of the accomplishments and challenges of the MCH Section GVP Workgroup in a context of ever-increasing gun violence.

Use of fax-back surveillance to determine epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of patients diagnosed with hepatitis C in Waterbury, Connecticut.

Hepatitis C (HCV) is a leading cause of chronic liver disease in the United States. Connecticut has a registry of laboratory reported cases of HCV. These reports include limited patient-level information.