Can Tobacco Control Endgame Analysis Learn Anything From the U.S. Experience With Illegal Drugs?
May 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Tobacco control endgame strategies threaten to create large black markets with potential attendant harms.
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F as in Fat
July 1, 2011 | Report
Adult obesity rates increased in 16 states in the past year have doubled or nearly doubled in 17 states since 1995.
A Survey of Stakeholder Knowledge, Experience, and Opinions of Advance Directives for Mental Health in Virginia
January 13, 2012 | Journal Article
An innovative Virginia health care law enables competent adults with serious mental illness to plan for treatment during incapacitating crises using an integrated advance directive with no legal distinction between psychiatric or other causes of decisional incapacity.
Public Health Law Research: Making the Case for Laws that Improve Health
May 24, 2012 | Program Result Report
Public Health Law Research promotes the effective use of law to improve public health. It does so through commissioning original research on the health impacts of laws and regulations and by promoting rigorous research methods.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Names Susan Dentzer as Senior Health Policy Adviser
News Release
RWJF today announced that Susan Dentzer, a renowned health policy expert, health policy analyst for the PBS NewsHour and former editor of the influential journal Health Affairs, will serve as a senior health policy adviser.
Tracking Employment-Based Health Insurance
May 1, 2012 | Program Result Report
In 1997, researchers surveyed more than 22,000 public and private employers nationwide about the cost and benefits of the health insurance coverage they offered to workers and published findings in some 20 peer-reviewed articles.
Bringing Health Into Decisions Across Sectors: HIA on Potential Coal Plant Closure
May 7, 2013 | New Public Health Post
The Health Impact Project recently announced eight new grant recipients that will receive funding to conduct health impact assessments (HIAs). Read a Q&A with researchers conducting the Shawnee coal plant HIA.
Grassroots Public Health: Q&A with Jill Birnbaum, American Heart Association
April 17, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Grassroots Change: Connecting for Better Health, conducted a Q&A with Jill Birnbaum of the American Heart Association. Birnbaum shares her perspective on grassroots movements and the threat of preemption in obesity prevention.
Keeneland 2013 Q&A: Lisa Simpson
April 9, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Keeneland 2013 Q&A: Lisa Simpson
The First National Snapshot of Health Care Quality in the United States
March 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
From 1997 to 2002, researchers with the RAND Corporation assessed the quality of care delivered to a large sample of patients living in 12 U.S. communities. This work provided the first national snapshot of health care quality in the United States.