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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.
February 25, 2011 | Program Result Report
The Active Living Resource Center focuses on helping communities at highest risk of inactivity and childhood obesity promote physical activity.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article describes areas of challenge for creating successful partnerships and opportunities for further exploration.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The healthy communities movement can provide insight into population health efforts in the United States, particularly in the context of recent health care reform.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease provide a number of perspectives relating to how incentives might work for population health improvement.
June 15, 2010 | Journal Article
How are we doing — and how can we do better? These are perhaps the most basic questions a community can ask regarding the health of its residents. In this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, seven essays describe the types of tools needed to measure and monitor our population's health.
February 10, 2010 | Report/Video
University of Wisconsin/RWJF project ranks counties on how healthy people are and how long they live.
January 1, 2010 | Story
The residents of Lauderdale Lakes, Florida have taken an active role in the development of major public health projects. The city is using a broad strategy, leveraging all of its resources to improve the health of its citizens.
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: An ongoing study examines the breadth of local public health decision-making authority and describes how local public health ordinances fill gaps in or supplement existing state and federal public health ordinances.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study represented 11 local health departments (LHDs) as groups of networks employees, tasks, and knowledge were points, or nodes within each network LHDs that appear structurally distinct likely share patterns of interactions among their organizational elements.