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November 2, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Economic constraints cause many Latinos to settle in low-income neighborhoods that have limited access to affordable healthy food options, playgrounds and parks, and pedestrian and bike-friendly streets. Instead, these neighborhoods have fast food r ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article seeks to expand what limited information we have on the composition and duties of local boards of health (LBOH) as an important foundational step in analyzing the role of LBOHs in leveraging improved public health outcomes. LBOH members ...
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Local health departments (LHDs) are the best places for poor minorities and immigrants to obtain health services. This study uncovered approaches that LHDs are using to care for diverse populations.
December 6, 2009 | Story
Grantee project summaries.
November 23, 2009 | Video/Story
Initiative is developing evidence about the most effective ways of organizing, financing and delivering public health services.
March 7, 2009 | Program Result
From 2002 to 2003, researchers from Rutgers University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison investigated the impact of ideas about individual freedom and human rights on tobacco control policy.
November 11, 2008 | Program Result
The National Association of County and City Health Officials and the Center for Law, Ethics, and Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health hosted a one-day Workshop on Ethics in Public Health Practice and Preparedness.
March 1, 2005 | Program Result
From 2000 through 2003, researchers from the Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Ore., implemented and evaluated a tobacco cessation program that dentists provided to low-income people in public clinics.
December 1, 2004 | Program Result
The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Mary Woodard Lasker Charitable Trust sponsored an invitational forum on ethical challenges in biomedical research and practice and published a report on the forum.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result
The field of public health has had no written code of ethics to guide professionals in addressing the wide variety of ethical dilemmas that arise in their practice.