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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Healthy Cities, Healthy Suburbs
August 1, 2002 | Issue Brief
Progress in Meeting Healthy People Goals for the Nation's 100 Largest Cities & Their Suburbs.
Health Policy Tracking Service Provides Information on State Health Policy Legislation
August 27, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Health Policy Tracking Service provides information on important developments in state legislation, policies and programs affecting health care, primarily through Web-based reports and databases.
2007 California Summit Seeks Consensus on State's Health Policy Agenda
April 29, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Public Health Institute convened the California Health Strategy Summit to address the challenges posed by communicable and chronic diseases in the state.
Americans' Conflicting Views about the Public Health System, and How to Shore Up Support
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This analysis of national opinion polls shows that a majority of Americans support increased spending on public health in general and that they see public health interventions as saving money in the long term.
African Americans' Lives Today
June 4, 2013 | Survey/Poll
African Americans report being satisfied with their lives in general, but many have economic and health concerns, and experience discrimination
Evidence Links Increases in Public Health Spending to Declines in Preventable Deaths
August 1, 2011 | Journal Article
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.
Geographic Variation in Public Health Spending
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study of local public health agencies examines how agency spending varies by community and over time. The study shows that the top 20 percent of public health agencies spent over 13 times more money than the bottom 20 percent, putting some communities at a disadvantage.
Getting Detailed Information from Surveys of 14 Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups on Health Care Discrimination and the Health Care System
June 3, 2009 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Harvard University School of Public Health conducted two telephone surveys of randomly selected U.S. adults representing 14 racial and ethnic minority groups, plus White Americans, in 2006 and 2007.
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.
Interviews with 9/11 Responders Available in Columbia University's Oral History Collection
January 31, 2008 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Columbia University conducted more than 40 in-depth interviews with public health and emergency workers who were at the scene in the days and months following the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.