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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April 25, 2012 | Journal Article
This study shows health warning labels can help ex-smokers stay quit when controlling for greater exposure to cigarettes.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article compares the effect of socioeconomic status on consumption of health care services in Canada and the United States. Canada offers universal health care while the United States has a more complex mix of private and public insurance, and previous research has indicated that socioeconomic status is more likely to effect health care use in the United States than in Canada.
October 6, 2009 | Program Result
Michael Cummings, Ph.D., M.P.H., conducted surveys that compared tobacco policies in four demographically similar countries to understand the impact of national-level policies on smoking behavior.
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article finds Australia's new health warnings increased reactions that are prospectively predictive of cessation activity. Warning size increases warning effectiveness and graphic warnings may be superior to text-based warnings.
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Holding risk-minimizing beliefs about the harms of smoking was associated with intention to quit, and was also predictive of attempts to quit smoking. However, self-exempting beliefs (e.g., I must have healthy genes that means I can smoke without getting any harms), were not predictive of attempts to quit.
March 23, 2009 | Journal Article
This study aims to examine levels of awareness of tobacco advertising and promotion among smokers in China as compared to other countries with different levels of restrictions.
July 14, 2008 | Program Result
RWJF provided partial support for plenary sessions devoted to tobacco policy at the 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health in Washington, July 2006.
June 26, 2008 | Program Result
The International Youth Foundation convened an Anti-Tobacco Donor Summit August 7, 2000 in Chicago to explore new ways to involve philanthropies in tobacco control initiatives targeted at the world's children and youth.
February 1, 2008 | Program Result
The Task Force for Child Survival and Development produced an oral history of the smallpox eradication campaign in West Africa in the 1960s, at the behest of CDC officials.
April 1, 2007 | Program Result
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids worked to advance domestic and international tobacco control policies through support for the first international public health treaty on curbing tobacco use.