Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
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The Health Impact Project: Advancing Smarter Policies for Healthier Communities
November 26, 2012 | Program Result Report
The Health Impact Project is advancing the use of health impact assessments (HIAs), used to determine the potential health effects of a proposed policy or project. Interest in HIAs is growing at the local, state, tribal and federal levels.
Special Report: Exploring Accreditation of Public Health Departments
May 18, 2010 | Program Result Report
Developing an accreditation system to encourage public health departments to measure their performance against national standards.
Regionalization in Local Public Health Systems
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Case studies focused on regionalization of public health preparedness and response in the Washington metropolitan area, highlighted the lack of an official of regional public health structure and the challenge in integrating the federal government into the regionalization effort.
Case Studies of Five Regional Public Health Structures - How They Contribute to Public Health Preparedness
May 12, 2009 | Program Result Report
In this 2006 to 2007 project, Michael A. Stoto, PhD, and a team of researchers and public health officials at RAND Corporation and elsewhere conducted case studies of five regional public health structures and then compared them.