Are Local Laws the Key to Ending Childhood Lead Poisoning?
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
Reducing and eventually eliminating childhood lead exposure through local policy innovations, is the main objective of this study.
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Public Health Law Research
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
This article reviews the field of public health law research and its progress in both methodological rigor and in identifying sources of data.
Human Capital News Roundup: Medication errors affecting children with cancer, particulate matter, the needs of urban communities, and more.
May 2, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of RWJF leaders, scholars, fellows, alumni and grantees.
Independent Review of Social and Population Variation in Mental Health Could Improve Diagnosis in DSM Revisions
May 1, 2013 | Journal Article
At stake in the May 2013 publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), are billions of dollars in insurance payments and government resources.
Medicine's Role in Creating a National Culture of Health
April 25, 2013 | Commentary
Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness—and good health: medicine’s role in creating a national culture of health.
Recommended Viewing: No Butts
April 16, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Recommended Viewing: No Butts
RWJF Scholar Finds Lead in Soil Can Harm Children
April 12, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
RWJF Health & Society Scholar Sammy Zahran discusses his study that finds children in Detroit may be exposed to lead from contaminated soil.
Human Capital News Roundup: Lead exposure from soil, breast cancer mortality, climate change, and more.
April 11, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of RWJF leaders, scholars, fellows and grantees.
Can Genetics Strengthen the Field of Environmental Science?
April 2, 2013 | Story
A grantee’s new book looks at the possible effects of the new focus on gene-environment interaction in population health.
Health Care Without Harm's Research Collaborative
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
From 2008 to 2012, Health Care Without Harm worked to embed best practices for environmental sustainability into health care and to create a business plan for Practice Greenhealth, which has hospital and business members.