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January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: This project conducted a formal statistical meta-analysis on effects of beverage alcohol taxes/prices on drinking and on a range of morbidity and mortality outcomes.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Health Systems Research - a Washington public policy research and consulting firm acquired by Altarum in 2006 - organized a meeting of researchers and other experts to explore ways that tax credits might be used to expand health care coverage.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In this article, the authors systematically reviewed the effects of alcohol taxes and prices on alcohol-related morbidity and mortality to assess their public health impact.
March 25, 2009 | Report
Another group of reform plans relied mainly on market-based incentives and tax reforms to cover the uninsured. Generally speaking, these plans did not envision a substantially enlarged role for government beyond increased financing, but aimed instead to redesign and better align government subsidies and policies to promote more affordable health coverage. Mandates on individuals and firms are not featured.
April 1, 2011 | Book
A popular policy option for addressing the growth in weight has been the imposition of a “fat tax” on selected foods that are deemed to promote obesity. This study tested the short- and long-run body weight consequences of changing food prices.
July 31, 2008 | Program Result Report
In 2002, the U.S. Congress enacted the Health Coverage Tax Credit to subsidize the purchase of coverage for certain individuals, particularly early retirees and workers displaced by international trade, who might otherwise be uninsured.
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: The goal of this project is to promote broad-based community health improvement in underserved rural communities in Wisconsin through a low-cost health communication intervention.
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.
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The study finds that raising the cost of alcohol effectively reduces drinking across the broad population of drinkers.
October 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Brandeis University, Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare held a three-day conference focused on the use of tobacco excise taxes to fund expansions in health care access for children and other groups.