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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.
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.
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.
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
To help policy-makers avoid crossing constitutional boundaries, this article distilled the legal concepts most relevant to formulating policies aimed at preventing obesity: police power allocation of power among federal, state, and local governments freedom of speech property rights privacy equal protection and contract rights.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article is part of a special issue on obesity in the March 2009 edition of The Milbank Quarterly, available free of charge throughout 2009 at Wiley-Blackwell.
June 10, 2009 | Story
A group of senators announced that a nationwide uniform menu labeling standard would be included in the Affordable Health Choices Act.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This paper examines attitudes and knowledge about food marketing and support for restricting unhealthy food marketing restrictions among one group of constituents: parents.
December 9, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held its second National Summit on Legal Preparedness for Obesity Prevention and Control in June 2008.