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April 24, 2013 | Report
Obesity-prevention policies could save the U.S. billions of dollars in the long run. A new report from the Campaign to End Obesity shows that the way estimates for the costs of legislation are done now misses a lot of their value.
April 19, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
"We need more nurses in the Idaho Legislature, and in public office in general. Nurses are prepared, credible, and unique in the contributions we make. No one else in the health professions can speak with the voice that we have," Henbest writes.
March 19, 2012 | Program Result Report
Center for Studying Health System Change researchers tracked changes in the nation's health care system and developed policy analyses describing how those changes affect patients, providers, and others in their communities.
April 11, 2013 | Journal Article
The sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with frequent ED use within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) are examined in this study.
March 14, 2013 | Issue Brief
Health impact assessments (HIAs) allows policymakers to consider how a new proposal—development of a new transit system, for example—affects health.
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Latino researchers, communities, and policy-makers are helping reshape the nation’s health system and improve community health.
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
This framework provides a way for policy-makers and others to “make sense” out of the many national and local efforts to engage consumers in their own health care.
August 1, 2011 | Program Result Report
PolicyLink, in partnership with the Food Trust and the Reinvestment Fund, developed and promoted model federal policies to improve local food environments and increase access to healthy, affordable foods.
October 24, 2012 | Story
Forty years of debate has failed to identify the most effective method of reducing coronary artery disease.
October 23, 2012 | Journal Article
Teen drivers may not like it, but New Jersey's pioneering graduated driving license decal law is estimated to have prevented more than 1,600 crashes.