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November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This study examined jurisdictional, organizational, and structural characteristics associated with capacity to deliver 10 essential public health services (EPHS) in Massachusetts, a state where a majority of local public health departments serve sma ...
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the work of the Somerville Active Living by Design Partnership. The authors report on the partnership between Active Living by Design and community organizations and assess the key successes and challenges of the project.
December 9, 2005 | Program Result
Between November 1997 and February 1998, researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health conducted a follow-up survey of youth interviewed in the 1993 Massachusetts Tobacco Survey of Youth.
January 1, 2004 | Book
This chapter recounts the history of Fighting Back : Community Initiatives to Reduce Demand for Illegal Drugs and Alcohol, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses and the controversy that it sparked.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result
From 1993 to 2001, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, developed and implemented Community Health in Focus, a program designed to use the convening role of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to stimulate action on health care issues identified by local communities.
May 1, 2003 | Program Result
Worcester Fights Back, which formed in 1990 under the auspices of the United Way of Central Massachusetts, worked to substantially reduce demand for illegal drugs and alcohol in Worcester, Mass.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result
From 1996 to 1998, Gregory C. Pope, M.S., and a team of investigators at the Center for Health Economics Research examined whether local smoke-free restaurant policies in Massachusetts affected restaurant sales.
May 31, 2000 | Program Result
From 1993 to 1996, the General Hospital Corporation, Boston, carried out a controlled study assessed tobacco sales to minors, youth access to tobacco, and youth tobacco use in six Massachusetts communities.
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Boston, coordinated a pilot project to integrate medical, mental health, social support and non-traditional services for children and adolescents who had serious emotional disturbances within a traditionally organized system of care.
August 1, 2000 | Program Result
Harvard Law School directed five case studies of four cities that have made significant efforts to reduce youth violence or reform the juvenile justice system.