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December 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Legal scholars at the Vanderbilt University School of Law reviewed the effects of existing laws on the ability of health care managers to control costs and the quality of medical services delivered under new market-driven health care systems.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is supporting research into how local authorities regulate public health issues. This article presents data related to municipal statutes themselves. Future research will address how local ordinances relate to state law.
May 28, 2008 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Florida's Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research examined how changes in 46 states' drinking and driving laws enacted between 1976 and 2002 affected alcohol-related crashes and fatalities.
July 31, 2007 | Program Result Report
Researchers at RAND Corp. studied the implementation of California's Proposition 36, a program that diverts people convicted of nonviolent drug-possession offenses from incarceration to parole with drug treatment.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
In 1998 and 1999, the Advocacy Institute, Washington, planned, wrote and distributed 15 reports providing a nonpartisan analysis of issues relevant to five tobacco control proposals that came before the U.S. Senate during the 105th Congress.
May 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
In 1999, the Health Privacy Project of the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy published a compilation of health privacy statutes in all 50 states and a "consensus document" of best principles for shaping health privacy policy.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Louisiana State University Medical Center developed the Louisiana Alcohol Policy Needs Assessment Database to understand patterns of alcohol use and to inform alcohol prevention policies.
August 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Advocacy Institute prepared a narrative history and critical evaluation of strategic leadership in the tobacco control movement during the national tobacco settlement negotiations, the failed legislation that followed, and the aftermath.
September 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the RAND Corporation conducted the first phase of a two-phase project to evaluate the pattern of use of binding arbitration agreements by California health care plans and providers and their effect on dispute outcomes.
January 4, 2011 | 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.