An [Un]clear Conscience Clause
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
By examining 20 state laws mandating insurance coverage of contraceptives, this article examines the sources and consequences of the ambiguity or the precision of the language.
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Regulating for the Public Good in New York City
March 14, 2013 | Program Result Report
Researchers studied public health policies in New York City and elsewhere, including bans on transfats, limits on exhaust emissions, and taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, to determine how best to move such policies through the political process.
Expanding the Ability of Practitioners and Scholars to Assess Law as a Tool to Improve Public Health
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: An ongoing study examines the breadth of local public health decision-making authority and describes how local public health ordinances fill gaps in or supplement existing state and federal public health ordinances.
Stronger Partnerships for Safer Food
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: By bringing together state and local officials, their federal counterparts and diverse stakeholders of the food safety system, this project developed an agenda for strengthening state and local roles in the food safety system.
State Boards of Health
March 10, 2011 | Journal Article
The governance structures of state public health systems vary as much as the states themselves, including the existence and role of state boards of health. Understanding these differences is essential to a complete understanding of the governmental public health enterprise.
Rhetorical Federalism
March 10, 2011 | Journal Article
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) represents the most significant reform of the United States health care system in decades. The loudest and most persistent state objections target the new mandate that individuals maintain health insurance, a requirement imposed by ACA and enforced through federal tax penalties.
Advancing Public Health Practice and Policy Solutions
January 10, 2010 | Issue Brief
Under its Advancing Public Health Policy and Practice solicitation, RWJF funded 16 projects and the Center for Creative Leadership produced Knowledge Assets that synthesize the work and learnings from these projects.
Role of State Attorneys General in Health Policy
September 22, 2010 | Journal Article
State attorneys generals have increasingly supported health and health care through litigation, investigative activities and policy reform work. Looking forward they will play an important role as reform moves out of the legislative arena.
Making Better Use of the Policies and Funding We Already Have
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The potential for population health reform could be enhanced by assessing whether we have made the cost of policies and resources already available.
Transitions in State Public Health Law
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project created the Turning Point Act, a framework for the modernization of public health law, in 2003. The authors of this study performed a comparative analysis how four states implemented the Turning Point Act.