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October 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
The Hilltop Institute’s Hospital Community Benefit Program is a central, objective resource for state and local decision-makers who seek to ensure that tax exempt hospital community benefit activities are responsive to pressing community health need ...
April 9, 2009 | Issue Brief
The Commission's recommendations outline the greatest opportunities to improve the health of all Americans, including improving nutrition, physical activity and early childhood development eliminating tobacco use creating healthy places and establishing accountability for health impact in all policies.
April 11, 2012 | Issue Brief/Book
A three-part series of reports from the IOM providing guidance to public health leaders and other stakeholders to inform efforts to address the nation's health challenges.
April 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Despite extravagant spending on clinical care, the United States lags behind global peers on measures of life expectancy and other health outcomes. Improving America's health will require paying attention to public health and its population-based prevention efforts, and remedying public health funding.
January 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
A collection of maps visually present data on the health characteristics and experiences of children in Boston.
March 7, 2012 | Issue Brief
In 2010 the ACA created the Prevention and Public Health Fund to invest in public health and disease prevention, reorient U.S. health care towards wellness, and lower costs associated with chronic disease.
February 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
A brief from The Hilltop Institute's Hospital Community Benefit Program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kresge Foundation, explores how several hospitals have collaborated with local community or health agencies to improve health in their communities.
December 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. States collect billions of dollars in tobacco revenue from the 1998 tobacco settlement and tobacco taxeswith less than two cents of every dollar going to fight tobacco use.
November 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
The brief provides recommendations for increasing enrollment and retention in public insurance programs.
October 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Employers around the country are searching for ways to support the health and wellness of their employees and their families while also struggling with high costs of benefits.