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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August 31, 1998 | Program Result Report
SmokeFree Educational Services, Inc., New York, carried out a project to purchase a smokefree advertising campaign on the roofs of New York City taxi cabs.
August 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1997, researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc., Boston, carried out a project to determine the best mechanisms for disseminating information about the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Guideline on Smoking Cessation to labor union leaders and membership.
July 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
The Center for Health Policy Research at George Washington University carried out the second phase of a study that was designed to evaluate options for reconfiguring the country's network of regional poison control centers into a more effective national system.
June 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation developed self-help and empowerment groups for pregnant and postpartum women with the aim of reducing substance abuse and improving pregnancy outcomes in high-risk communities.
June 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
Pinney Associates, Inc., a Bethesda, Md. health consulting firm. oversaw the creation of a working group on tobacco dependence treatment policy comprised of 18 experts in health policy, smoking cessation, and reimbursement.
May 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
Although 20 percent to 40 percent of pregnant smokers stop smoking sometime during pregnancy, a significant number continue smoking, and most return to smoking in the first six months after the birth of the baby.
March 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
The National Committee for Quality Assurance, an accrediting organization for managed care plans, issued a "Call for Measures" inviting public participation in revising its Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set.
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.
March 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
The Hospital Educational Research Trust, Chicago, co-sponsored two Leadership Action Forums designed to foster effective collaboration between the public and private sectors that would result in improved community health.
February 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1996, a fellow at the Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, documented a 35-year campaign by the tobacco industry to de-emphasize evidence of the health effects of tobacco.