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March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
In recent years the public health community has increasingly demonstrated and recognized the roles that public health laws and policies play in effectuating long-lasting and broad-based population-wide changes.
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The 2009 H1N1 pandemic provided an unprecedented opportunity to implement and exercise many of these mechanisms.
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Domestic litigation has become a principal strategy for realizing international treaty obligations for the human right to health, providing causes of action for the public's health and empowering individuals to raise human rights claims for HIV prevention, treatment and care.
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Building safety into a product or environment—especially in ways that require little or no user action to confer protection—is often more effective than trying to change consumer behavior.
October 28, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Update on 10/31: Scott Burris is at APHA and gave an overview this morning at the 2011 APHA annual meeting on how far the initiative has come since its inception two years ago. The program has funded somewhere between $8 and 9 million dollars in pub ...
October 14, 2011 | New Public Health Post
How serious is the death and injury rate from distracted driving? The latest data from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that in 2009, nearly 5,500 fatalities and another half million injuries resulted from crashes ...
October 12, 2011 | Program Result Report
Some 400 lawyers, health-related professionals and policy-makers attended the "Using Law, Policy and Research to Improve the Public's Health" conference to explore the role of law and policy in promoting global and domestic public health.
September 1, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Do motorcyclists in your state need to wear helmets? That can depend on the year, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to the CDC, states have cycled from near universal helmet law coverag ...
July 21, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Do you work in a local health department? Please share stories from your departments here with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Public health agencies across the country are looking increasingly to the law as a tool to help achieve their missions ...
July 13, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The heat advisory released today from the National Weather Service, which notes that “from the southern Plains to the Atlantic coast, conditions will remain dangerously hot through at least the end of the work week,” comes with an additional advisor ...