A concern frequently voiced by tobacco control advocates is that existing tobacco control laws are not properly enforced. The best way to increase enforcement of tobacco laws is to eliminate barriers that may be impeding...
A concern frequently voiced by tobacco control advocates is that existing tobacco control laws are not properly enforced. The best way to increase enforcement of tobacco laws is to eliminate barriers that may be impeding...
This article in the Community Food Security Coalition News connects the dots between land use planning and healthier communities, and is geared toward food system activists. It was written by Hannah Burton Laurison, Raquel Bournhonesque,...
Now, more than ever, we are acutely aware of such issues as greenhouse gas emissions, ocean acidification, reduced snowpack, sea level rise, and increasing severity of storms, among many others—all directly related to the effects...
This report, developed by NASHP and produced by ChangeLab Solutions, highlights leading states’ approaches to support community-based prevention initiatives by bridging the health care delivery and public health systems. It examines various mechanisms – both...
Climate change may well be the greatest threat to human health in this century and with an express mission to protect and enhance the health and well-being of communities, public health practitioners have both a...
Many obesity prevention strategies involve changing the way land is used in a neighborhood to provide families with easier access to healthy food and physical activity. Most local governments have a great deal of power...
Partners for Public Health provides a broad overview of the many public agencies that make policy decisions affecting aspects of the built environment, pointing public health professionals toward opportunities for engagement. This guide is a...
We often take safe drinking water for granted. Yet across the country, families drink water from private wells that are not subject to federal safe drinking water standards. Their water usually looks and tastes clean,...