Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
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Why We Need Urban Health Equity Indicators
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Global health challenges are increasingly more prominent as city populations continue to grow, making community health a priority.
Dissemination of Results in Community-Based Participatory Research
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Researchers have an ethical responsibility to transmit their findings to the public. This literature review analyzed articles and surveyed researchers, to assess the communication of community-based participatory research (CBPR) findings to participating communities.
Smoking in Context
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article examines the extent to which smoking prevalence varies across geographic areas, specifically communities, health regions, and provinces/territories in Canada, independent of individual characteristics. Geography contributed to the total variation in smoking at 8.4 percent.
Faith-Based Organizations, Science, and the Pursuit of Health
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article proposes establishing a national faith-based health research network. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) can use their strong community ties to generate new research. The authors put forth three goals for an FBO network and discuss secular models.
Moving Mental Health into the Disaster-Preparedness Spotlight
September 23, 2010 | Commentary
Substance abuse. Child abuse. Intimate partner violence. These are but some of the signs of emotional distress that public health officials suspect are on the rise in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as families nurse fears about the ...
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Expands Its Reach in the Southern United States
January 18, 2010 | News Release
Community Health Leaders award partners with Houston-based Harris Foundation.
RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America to Release Recommendations Report
March 12, 2009 | Story
Overall health will not improve until factors outside of the medical care system also are addressed.
Local Health Departments and Specific Maternal and Child Health Expenditures
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
As a part of the Public Health Activities and Service Tracking study and in collaboration with partners in two Public Health Practice–Based Research Network states, we examined relationships between local health department (LHD) maternal and child h ...
Book Links National Order and Public Health to Poor Inner-City Neighborhoods
September 1, 2006 | Program Result
Rodrick Wallace, PhD, and Deborah Wallace, PhD, conducted research and published a book addressing the social, economic and political decay that underlies the rise of AIDS, tuberculosis, drug abuse and violent crime.
Changing Policies and the Physical Environment So Children and Families Can Eat Well and Move More
February 14, 2012 | Story
A profile of Sarah Strunk, MHA, director of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities.