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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December 19, 2012 | Journal Article
This study examines property tax levy (local tax levy) as a source of local health department (LHD) funding during a five year period (2006-2010).
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This descriptive study illustrates that emerging practice-based research networks can successfully collaborate on small-scale research projects with immediate application for systems development. Study findings are being used by local public health ...
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This study sought to quantify the gap between current public health spending and adequate public health spending in Minnesota and can serve as a conceptual model for other communities.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This randomized trial paired pregnant women with a friend or relative and provided counseling for both the subject and the supporter the goal was to test the effects of mobilizing social support for pregnant women trying to quit smoking.
November 18, 2009 | Program Result Report
Kristin Schultz, the assistant director of a local public health department in rural Minnesota, was tired of always trying to do more with less and overwhelmed by the challenges of working in public health.
February 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
A one-hour NOVA television documentary, "Search for a Safe Cigarette," investigated current efforts to create less toxic cigarettes in 2001.
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The goal of an immunization registry is to provide doctors, nurses, and others with the information that they need to ensure children receive appropriate immunizations.