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December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A study of consumer awareness of calorie information in New York City fast-food chains found that prominently posting calorie information in restaurants increases the number of people who report seeing the information and using it in their food choices.
October 6, 2009 | Journal Article
This study examined the influence of menu calorie labels on fast food choices in the wake of New York City's labeling mandate.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Rodrick Wallace, PhD, and Deborah Wallace, PhD, conducted research and published a book addressing the social, economic and political decay that underlies the rise of AIDS, tuberculosis, drug abuse and violent crime.
December 23, 2009 | Program Result Report
The commission sought to influence drug policies and practices, held African-American drug policy summits, worked in communities around the country on drug policy issues and disseminated the commission's policy recommendations.
July 26, 2011 | Journal Article
This article used the implementation of calorie labeling in fast food restaurants to show that while calorie labeling was associated with a reduction in calories purchased at some major chains, overall, the average number of calories purchased did not change in fast food restaurants.
June 13, 2013 | Program Result Report
Fresh Ideas was a targeted solicitation for proposals that aimed to give immigrants and refugees the tools and support they need to improve and maintain their own health.
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
Philadelphia's Lead Court shows compliance for lead hazard remediation improvement.
National Program
To employ a comprehensive set of interventions to improve the health of children in Trenton, New Jersey.
February 6, 2005 | Program Result Report
From July 2002 through December 2003, investigators from the Philadelphia Women's Death Review Team conducted a review of all deaths in the year 2000 of women ages 15 to 60 who lived there at the time of their death.
November 26, 2012 | Program Result Report
The Health Impact Project is advancing the use of health impact assessments (HIAs), used to determine the potential health effects of a proposed policy or project. Interest in HIAs is growing at the local, state, tribal and federal levels.