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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June 20, 2012 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health surveyed 591 tobacco cessation programs for young people, evaluated 41 programs, and described programs that were sustained.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This study examined flavored cigarette use by individuals between the age of 17– 26 years and those 25 years of age and older. Study participants were part of two national telephone surveys, the National Youth Smoking Cessation Survey (NYSCS) and the Assessing Hardcore Smoking Survey (AHCSS), conducted in 2004 and 2005.
November 12, 2009 | Journal Article
This study examined whether support for tobacco control policies varies by demographic group, including nativity status (i.e., immigrant versus U.S. born).
May 25, 2010 | Program Result Report
Since 1995, RWJF has invested more than $77 million in major programs to increase the use of clinically proven tobacco-dependence treatments as one part of its broader policy-based efforts to prevent and reduce population tobacco use.
March 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Findings from the International Tobacco Control Four Country Study
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.
May 30, 2008 | Program Result Report
Leonard A. Jason, Ph.D., led a team of researchers that studied whether restricting minors' access to cigarettes and fining them for possessing tobacco products have a significant influence on their rates of smoking.
September 11, 2009 | Program Result Report
Partners With Tobacco Use Research Centers helped translate the research findings of the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (TTURCs) into policy and practice.
March 27, 2009 | Program Result Report
In 2005, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and leaders from many different religious denominations launched a national campaign - Faith United Against Tobacco - to mobilize the faith community across the country to support proven solutions to reduce smoking.
March 27, 2009 | Program Result Report
Vincent DeMarco, J.D., M.A., president of Maryland Citizen's Health Initiative, first worked with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids more than a decade ago.