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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.
January 9, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A recent study in Pediatrics found that by age 23, up to 41 percent of young adults have been arrested at least once for a non-traffic offense. According to the study, early risk factors that can lead to arrests include poor academic performance, ab ...
March 10, 2011 | Journal Article
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA or the Act) into law. While the Act is aimed primarily at improving individual health by increasing access to health insurance, it also contains a number of provisions targeted directly at improving health at the population level.
March 10, 2011 | Journal Article
This symposium issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics is devoted to the reconvening of the first national public health law conference since 2006, Using Law, Policy, and Research to Improve the Public's Health, held on September 13-15, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia.
March 10, 2011 | Journal Article
The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (ISDEAA, PL 93-638) allows tribes to assume the management and control of health care programs from Indian Health Service (IHS) and to increase flexibility in health care program development.
March 10, 2011 | Journal Article
The detection and spread of pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza in the United States led to a complex and multifaceted response by the public health system that lasted more than a year, testing virtually every aspect of U.S. public health preparedness and response systems, from laboratory capabilities and capacities to social distancing plans.
March 10, 2011 | Journal Article
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) represents the most significant reform of the United States health care system in decades. The loudest and most persistent state objections target the new mandate that individuals maintain health insurance, a requirement imposed by ACA and enforced through federal tax penalties.
March 10, 2011 | Journal Article
A growing number of cities and counties have emerged as leaders in the fight against obesity in the United States and have enacted innovative policies to address this epidemic.
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The revival of this annual public health law meeting symbolizes the continued commitment of a wide range of important individuals and institutions to the proposition that law is of substantial importance to public health.
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
In recent years the public health community has increasingly demonstrated and recognized the roles that public health laws and policies play in effectuating long-lasting and broad-based population-wide changes.