Attempting to measure the overall health of populations allows public health leaders to better allocate resources to areas of greatest need. It also empowers citizens with information to advocate for their local community's investments.
This report lists the number of illnesses, costs, and overall public health burden of specific microbes in particular types of food—such as Salmonella in poultry and Listeria in deli meat.
This study found that mortality rates fell between 1.1 percent and 6.9 percent for each 10 percent increase in local public health spending.
Walking or biking to school provides opportunities for children to increase their physical activity. This study assesses state laws requiring minimum bussing distances, hazardous route exemptions, sidewalks, crossing guards, speed zones, and traffic control measures around school and their relationship to active travel to school polices.
This report by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation concludes that millions of injuries could be prevented each year if more states adopted additional research-based injury prevention policies, and if programs were fully implemented and enforced.
We and our grantees produce research and data about the complex health and health care issues facing the United States. We also publish program evaluations and reports at the end of many projects.
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March 26, 2009 | Program Result Report
RWJF established the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids in 1995 and has provided continued support for CTFK since that time.
October 1, 2007 | Journal Article
The prevalence of overweight among children and adolescents has reached epidemic proportions: 11.5 percent among children age 2-5 years, 17.7 percent among children age 6-11 years and 17.3 percent among children age 12-19 years. Moreover, research h ...
March 29, 2007 | Program Result Report
The All Kids Count II program sought to make 16 immunization registry projects based in local, county, and state health departments fully operational by January 1, 2000.
January 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The National Network for Immunization Information developed an education campaign providing scientifically sound information about immunization to help parents, health care professionals and policy-makers make informed decisions.
September 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center examined attitudes toward tobacco and alcohol products in very young children and their relationship to parental attitudes and behavior toward the same products.
July 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The Task Force for Child Survival and Development worked for four years with federal, state and local public health agencies across the nation to foster the development of computerized child health information systems that integrate data from multiple sources.
January 1, 2005 | Journal Article
This study investigated the association between average income or deprivation and infant mortality rate across neighborhoods of 4 world cities. Using a maximum likelihood negative binomial regression model that controls for births, we analyzed data ...
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Investigators at the Brown University School of Medicine developed a computerized database of published studies of the developmental consequences to children of drug exposure in the womb.
February 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Children's Health Environmental Coalition, Princeton, N.J., created a conceptual prototype design for a Web-based virtual house, called HealtheHouse, to inform parents about environmental health risks to their children in the home.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
In 1998 and 1999, the Advocacy Institute, Washington, planned, wrote and distributed 15 reports providing a nonpartisan analysis of issues relevant to five tobacco control proposals that came before the U.S. Senate during the 105th Congress.