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April 2, 2013 | New Public Health Post/Infographic
Spending just $10 per person in programs aimed at prevention could save the nation more than $16 billion a year. In honor of National Public Health Week, we've rounded up our favorite ROI articles, reports and other resources.
May 23, 2013 | New Public Health Post
NewPublicHealth recently spoke with Robert Faherty, VP and Commissioner of the Babe Ruth League, about what the league in particular—and youth sports in general—are doing to improve the prevention of and response to traumatic brain injuries.
April 3, 2013 | New Public Health Post
New York State Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah will release the 2013-17 Prevention Agenda: New York State’s Health Improvement Plan—a statewide, five-year plan to improve the health and quality of life for everyone who lives in New York State.
May 9, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A group of professionally-attired policy-makers, influencers and public health professionals in Washington started their day this morning the way students at Namaste Charter School in Chicago do every day—doing upper and lower body exercises and str ...
May 8, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new report from the Institute of Medicine, Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention, released today in conjunction with the Weight of the Nation Conference, finds that progress in stemming the obesity epidemic has been too slow, and that obesit ...
April 30, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy is about to celebrate its first anniversary. The Strategy offers a comprehensive plan aimed at increasing the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life. A cornerstone of the Nati ...
April 30, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Happiness is gaining currency today, particularly in relationship to health and medicine. That’s what we’ve been hearing ever since Harvard School of Public Health researchers Julia K. Boehm and Laura Kubzansky published their report “The Heart’s Co ...
April 24, 2012 | New Public Health Post
>>Follow the full National Prevention Strategy series on NewPublicHealth.org. NewPublicHealth:What is the scope of the problem of drug abuse in the United States and who does it affect? Gil Kerlikowske: Well, we know that it affects everyone. I’ve s ...
April 17, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Today, the Psychological Bulletin published research by Julia K. Boehm and Laura Kubzansky from the Harvard School of Public Health suggesting that positive psychological well-being – such as life purpose, positive emotion, life satisfaction, happin ...
April 16, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A NewPublicHealth Q&A with Jack B. Stein The National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy is about to celebrate its first anniversary. The Strategy offers a comprehensive plan aimed at increasing the number of Americans who are healthy at every ...