Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
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Identifying Effective Catalysts for Action Toward Community Health Improvement in Underserved Communities in Wisconsin
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: The goal of this project is to promote broad-based community health improvement in underserved rural communities in Wisconsin through a low-cost health communication intervention.
Highest-Value Preventive Services Save Billions if Applied to 90 Percent of U.S. Population
June 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the Partnership for Prevention conducted research to identify high-value evidence-based clinical and community preventive services.
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.
How Do Public Health Safeguards in Indian Patent Law Affect Pharmaceutical Patenting in Practice?
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
The article examines the degree to which India’s section 3(d) impacts patent grant rates compared to Europe, a jurisdiction without 3(d) provisions.
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.
New Jersey's HIV Exposure Law and the HIV-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Sexual and Seropositive Status Disclosure Behaviors of Persons Living with HIV
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
A study of associations between HIV-positive people’s awareness of New Jersey’s HIV exposure law and their HIV-related attitudes, beliefs and seropositive disclosure behaviors found that awareness of the law had little effect on the disclosure behavior of HIV-positive individuals.
Advancing Public Health Practice and Policy Solutions
January 10, 2010 | Issue Brief
Under its Advancing Public Health Policy and Practice solicitation, RWJF funded 16 projects and the Center for Creative Leadership produced Knowledge Assets that synthesize the work and learnings from these projects.
Are Local Laws the Key to Ending Childhood Lead Poisoning?
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
Reducing and eventually eliminating childhood lead exposure through local policy innovations, is the main objective of this study.
Transitions in State Public Health Law
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project created the Turning Point Act, a framework for the modernization of public health law, in 2003. The authors of this study performed a comparative analysis how four states implemented the Turning Point Act.
Measuring the Authority of Local Public Health Directors in the Context of Organizational Structure
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This descriptive study illustrates that emerging practice-based research networks can successfully collaborate on small-scale research projects with immediate application for systems development. Study findings are being used by local public health ...