Tobacco

Topic

Tobacco cessation. Various methods used to quit tobacco—includes counseling patients to stop smoking or using spit tobacco, quitlines, and prescription and over-the-counter medications.

Accreditation

Topic

Public health departments play a critical role in our everyday lives, but until recently there was no nationwide system to ensure their quality and accountability. Accreditation establishes rigorous, measurable standards for quality and performance.

Health Impact Assessments

Topic

Health impact assessments identify how policies in non-health sectors could affect and might be used to improve people's health.

Competitive Foods

The foods and beverages schools offer outside of meal programs are often called competitive foods because they compete with school meals for students' spending.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities: Supporting Community Action to Prevent Childhood Obesity

National Program

To catalyze and support policy and environmental change projects to promote children's physical activity and healthy eating, especially in lower-income and racial/ethnic communities at greatest risk.

Health Impact Assessment Portfolio

National Program

To engage policy-makers, public health practitioners, health advocacy groups, researchers and other stakeholders in promoting the implementation of health impact assessments in policy decision-making.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research

National Program

To encourage researchers whose crosscutting and innovative ideas promise to contribute meaningfully to improving U.S. health and health care policy.

Injury Free Coalition for Kids: Dissemination of a Model Injury Prevention Program for Children and Adolescents

National Program

To reduce and prevent injuries to children through a hospital-based, research-driven model implemented in partnership with coalitions of community stakeholders.

Independent Choices: Enhancing Consumer Direction for People with Disabilities

National Program

Program to foster the development of consumer-directed home and community-based services for people of all ages with chronic disabilities.

Improving Chronic Illness Care

National Program

Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC) is a national program dedicated to improving the quality of life among the 133-million Americans who suffer from diabetes, depression and other chronic conditions.