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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Landmark Program Making Progress Through Local Initiatives to Reverse Childhood Obesity
January 11, 2010 | Story/Interactive
In 50 communities across the country, the barriers that often keep children from eating healthy and being physically active are starting to come down.
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
Researchers at the Partnership for Prevention conducted research to identify high-value evidence-based clinical and community preventive services.
Four Mayors and School Superintendent Honored for Exceptional Leadership in Preventing Childhood Obesity
November 2, 2009 | Video/Story
Their approaches illustrate a wide variety of policies that can help prevent childhood obesity.
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.
Philadelphia's Lead Court Is Making a Difference
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
Philadelphia's Lead Court shows compliance for lead hazard remediation improvement.
Testing the Results of Municipal Mixed-Use Zoning Ordinances
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
This article tests a novel methodological approach to understand mixed use zoning (MUZ) ordinances and their impact on neighborhood walkability.
Public Health Law Research
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
This article reviews the field of public health law research and its progress in both methodological rigor and in identifying sources of data.
Expanding the Ability of Practitioners and Scholars to Assess Law as a Tool to Improve Public Health
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.
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.