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Health Equity Tools Are Key to Improved …

WEBHealth in All Policies (HiAP) is a collaborative framework for helping policymakers, industry, and community leaders understand the potential health effects of decisions they make. …

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Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital …

WEBOverview. Americans’ medical histories have largely been digitized over the past two decades as hospitals and physician’s offices moved from paper-based to electronic …

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Health Impact Assessments Can Help Improve Decision …

WEBHealth impact assessments (HIAs) can aid those efforts. They use a standardized six-step process to investigate how decisions—such as whether to develop a transit system, …

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In 2021, Biomedical Research Mattered More Than Ever

WEBSeveral current and former Pew scholars spent 2021 looking at this complex system to better understand how it fights COVID-19 and other threats. For example, in the case of …

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Health Impact Assessments, Community Engagement Can …

WEBMethodology. The research summarized information from 246 HIAs and seven other initiatives, grounded in HIA principles, conducted between January 2004 and October …

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More Universal Use of Electronic Health Records Is …

WEBAnyone who has tried and failed to share information across devices on competing software platforms knows firsthand the critical importance of interoperability. When different …

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Public Health Agencies Need Better Data to Promote Well …

WEBKathy Talkington directs The Pew Charitable Trusts’ public health programs. We all deserve to lead healthy lives, but many factors that affect our well-being are beyond our …

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State Initiatives Pivot to Address Public Health Challenges …

WEBResearch has consistently demonstrated strong links between people’s health and societal sectors such as employment, community development, education, housing, and …

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New Federal Office to Address Climate Change as a …

WEBTo address the impact of climate change on the health of the American people, President Biden directed the department of Health and Human Services to create the Office of …

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America's Oral Health Is Improving Thanks to Better …

WEBOn Feb. 28, 2007, The Washington Post reported a tragedy: “Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him. …

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Updated Health IT Standards Can Help Harness Data to Limit Disease

WEBONC’s collaboration with CDC should include sharing data with the agency on the extent to which data is exchanged with public health agencies. Doing so could then help inform …

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Do Health Impact Assessments Promote Equity

WEBMore than two-thirds of the completed HIAs studied included equity considerations. Frequently helped increase people’s knowledge about health and health equity and …

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To Address Health Disparities, Race and Ethnicity Data Is Key

WEBA: Data on race and ethnicity can be included with many different types of public health data. "Case surveillance" means reporting cases of tuberculosis, COVID-19, hepatitis, or …

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Black Adolescent Suicide Rate Reveals Urgent Need to Address …

WEBBlack adolescents are significantly less likely than their peers in other demographic groups to receive mental health care. This is due, in part, to systemic inequities, including …

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Emerging Technologies: Health Care Products The Pew Charitable …

WEBThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates a wide variety of innovative health care technologies, many of which are rapidly evolving and can allow for increasingly …

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A User’s Guide to Legislative Health Notes

WEB1 Health Notes in Action Health notes have been used to examine the potential health and equity implications of proposed policies related to housing, education, employment, and …

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Community Partnerships Are Critical to Improving Maternal, Infant

WEBTo improve maternal and infant health, organizations and agencies can design systems of care that are responsive to client and community needs. Using a multidisciplinary …

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America's Mental Health Crisis The Pew Charitable Trusts

WEBYoung people are contending with anxiety, jails have become de facto mental health centers, and deaths are rising from drug overdoes—but we know the way forward, if we …

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State Prisons and the Delivery of Hospital Care

WEBIts findings include: Off-site care costs are a significant part of correctional health budgets. For example, Virginia spent 27 percent of its prison health care budget on off-site …

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It’s Time to Create Mentally Healthy Workplaces

WEBCompanies, nonprofits, and government entities are making mental health part of their internal programming to grapple with increasingly complex workplaces. As we know, …

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For Too Many With Mental Illness, Incarceration is the Default

WEBMore than a million people in America’s prisons and jails have behavioral health conditions. Many of them probably never needed to be there. This nation incarcerates more people …

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Philadelphia 2024 The Pew Charitable Trusts

WEBEditor’s note: The Figure 12 note was updated on April 16, 2024, to reflect that the commuting data is the most recent available. Overview. In many ways, 2024 is a year of …

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Coming Together to Achieve Effective Policy Solutions: A …

WEBIn an increasingly complex world, moving public policy in a positive direction requires dedication and collaboration. So on April 2, The Pew Charitable Trusts hosted a pair of …

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States Face Challenges and Opportunities Using One-Time Federal

WEBAs the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, state policymakers faced the challenge—and opportunity—of allocating billions of dollars in federal relief aid in ways that would not …

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Atlantic City's Watchdogs The Pew Charitable Trusts

WEBThis report was updated on Nov. 20, 2015 with a new cover image. Overview . When New Jersey Governor Chris Christie named an emergency manager in January 2015 to try to …

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After Witnessing Climate Change Effects in Antarctica, Expert Calls …

WEBIn January, Dr. Cassandra Brooks—an assistant professor of environmental studies and a faculty fellow with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of …

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As Property Tax Bills Rise, States Look for Long-Term Solutions

WEBProperty tax relief is high on the agenda of many lawmakers from states in the Mountain West, where property values have skyrocketed in part because of an influx of residents …

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New Report: Louisiana Can Reap Job, Economic Benefits From …

WEBNEW ORLEANS—A report released today shows that Louisiana businesses and workers stand to benefit from the expansion of offshore wind nationally and in the Gulf of Mexico. …

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Fisheries Managers Can Limit Risk in the Seafood Supply Chain

WEBGetting seafood from the ocean to the marketplace is complicated and often risky, with numerous players and ample opportunities for bad actors to skirt the rules. This starts on …

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Louisiana Primed to Take Helm of Offshore Wind Supply Chain

WEBLouisiana, already renowned for its energy prowess, is poised to harness the potential of another segment of the energy industry: offshore wind. Since the first U.S. offshore wind …

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