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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.
October 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Employers around the country are searching for ways to support the health and wellness of their employees and their families while also struggling with high costs of benefits.
April 3, 2012 | News Release/Video
2012 County Health Rankings show what influences how healthy residents are, how long they live.
February 3, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy provides a new, health-in-all policies approach to prevention, requiring the efforts of many federal agencies (17 to be exact) and other stakeholders. Good community design, with sidewalks, adequ ...
November 2, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Dr. Bauer: Policy is key, I think, to the success of chronic disease prevention and health promotion. Policy can be a legislatively enacted law, can be a regulation, or can be something that’s voluntarily adopted by a jurisdiction, by an employer, b ...
November 2, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Is good health connected to our economic security? According to a new “Healthier Americans for a Healthier Economy" report by Trust for America’s Health, released yesterday at a Capitol Hill briefing co-sponsored by the Congressional Wellness Caucus ...
July 6, 2011 | New Public Health Post
A recent commentary article in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that the biggest threat to public health actually may be funding cuts to programs outside the health sector. The author, Steven Woolf, M.D. , M.P.H., director of ...
October 1, 2008 | Report
This Blueprint for a Healthier America is a federal policy guide for the next president, administration and congress, with expert recommendations to revitalize the nation's ability to protect the health of all Americans.
December 14, 2009 | Story
Henry and Russo highlight an initiative the Foundation launched in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute: County Health Rankings.
January 3, 2013 | Report
This report, released by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, concludes that millions of injuries could be prevented each year if more states adopted additional research-based injury prevention policies, and if programs were fully implemented and enforced.