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 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center examined the relationship between regulatory practices of alcohol-control agencies and alcohol-related traffic deaths in 107 cities that participate in the NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article summarizes accountability, performance metrics, and reward systems in education for possible use in health care.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The authors of this editorial take a look at how our public health system could work in the future.
October 21, 2009 | Program Result Report
RWJF has supported the publication, updating and distribution of On Doctoring, a literature anthology including essays, short stories, poems, memoirs and commentary that emphasize the human dimension and the mission of medical care.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study represented 11 local health departments (LHDs) as groups of networks employees, tasks, and knowledge were points, or nodes within each network LHDs that appear structurally distinct likely share patterns of interactions among their organizational elements.
July 27, 2009 | Program Result Report
From November 2005 to April 2008, project staff at the University of Kentucky's College of Public Health developed a database of resources that public health systems researchers can use to find the data they need for their work.
July 11, 2009 | Program Result Report
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care supported evaluations of replicable efforts by managed care organizations to integrate effective tobacco-cessation interventions into everyday clinical practice and the basic health care these organizations provide.
March 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
The University of Illinois at Chicago examined the similarities and differences among predictors of different stages of smoking for adolescents: abstinence, trying, experimentation, regular use.
February 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
More than 30 percent of seniors are not immunized against pneumonia in 36 states new report finds low adult vaccination rates in U.S.
January 10, 2010 | Issue Brief
Under its Advancing Public Health Policy and Practice solicitation, RWJF funded 16 projects and the Center for Creative Leadership produced Knowledge Assets that synthesize the work and learnings from these projects.