This article examines the legal mechanisms promoting mixed-income housing developments and their potential to address affordable housing shortages, though evidence on public health impact remains insufficient.
This article explores how vaccination requirements for child care, school, and college attendance increase vaccination rates and decrease vaccine-preventable diseases, supported by systematic evidence.
This article reviews ignition interlock programs aimed at reducing drunk-driving recidivism. While short-term effectiveness is noted, further research is needed to confirm its impact on reducing recidivism and improving public health outcomes.
This article reviews the use of standing orders to increase adult vaccination rates, highlighting strong evidence of their effectiveness as a public health intervention to boost vaccine coverage.
This article highlights strategies for public health leaders to craft persuasive messages appealing to diverse moral foundations and millennials, ensuring the future of public health workforces.
This dataset shows key features of the federal SSI program for children with disabilities (1996–2018), highlighting its role in assisting low-income families caring for severely disabled children.
This dataset maps U.S. school discipline laws from 2008–2018, highlighting key features, trends, and disparities, including recent efforts to reduce exclusionary practices like expulsion and suspension.
This dataset maps laws in four European countries implementing WHO's IHR(2005) to prevent, protect, and control the spread of diseases, developed with WHO and Swiss Federal Office of Public Health funding.
This dataset examines local small food retail laws in seven cities/counties using incentives like grants and tax breaks to improve healthy food access, as mapped through a 2018 policy surveillance project.
This article explores 23 legal levers across five domains promoting health equity in housing, including zoning laws, rent control, and fair housing protections, with limited evidence of their impact.
This dataset explores local just cause and retaliatory eviction laws in 10 U.S. cities, detailing protections for tenants and guidelines for landlords, supported by a 2018 policy surveillance project.
This dataset examines state laws defining dental hygienists' licensing, supervision, and authority, outlining the scope of practice, practice settings, and oral health care service requirements.
This dataset examines state MEDD policies, which set thresholds for morphine-equivalent opioid doses, aiming to reduce high-dose prescribing and prevent opioid-related mortality.
This dataset details state pain care laws as of Nov. 8, 2018, covering Schedule II opioid prescribing, healthcare practice standards, pain treatment guidelines, practitioner requirements, and prescription monitoring program (PDMP) features.
