Environmental Health
by Straton Mwashighadi | Apr 10, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In Los Angeles County, California, a promising new model for violence prevention and health promotion, rooted in cross-sector collaboration, has implications for how public health agencies serve communities. Safe Summer Parks programs were developed as violence...
by Keenan Faulkner | Dec 3, 2013 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
A movement for population health starts with a basic understanding that health is determined by far more than health care and that the focus of health investments must go beyond health care alone. It follows that we need to invest in healthy environments, in...
by Keenan Faulkner | Jul 16, 2013 | Commentary, Perspectives
Rising health care costs, increasing prevalence of chronic disease, persisting health care disparities and access issues, and the aging population underlie the urgent need for change in the U.S. health care system to simultaneously improve health and reduce costs...
by Rowena Gono | Jul 15, 2013 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction In this commentary, Dr. Regina Benjamin highlights accomplishments of the National Prevention Council, an unprecedented gathering of multiple federal departments and agencies whose policies and practices bear on health. Authorized under the Affordable...
by Keenan Faulkner | Jun 11, 2013 | Commentary, Perspectives
Business and government often respond rapidly, without engaging health professionals, in their efforts to solve crises or embrace new technologies. Too often, decisions made prove to be shortsighted. One needs only to look to recent history for unintended...
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