...Rebekah E. Gee; Michelle M. Alletto; Anthony E. Keck Louisiana ranks forty-ninth nationally in birth outcomes indicators such as infant mortality and in the percentage of low birth weight and very low birth weight babies. This article describes the formation of the Birth Outcomes Initiative...

... and Prevention endorsed and promoted this new definition when it launched the Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative. In arguing that prenatal care was often too little too late, a group of maternal and child health experts in the United States attempted to spur improvements in population health...

...Edith D. Balbach; Michael P. Traynor; Stanton A. Glantz Enacted in 1988, Proposition 99 increased California's cigarette tax by 25 cents per pack and allocated a minimum of 20 percent of the revenues to fund anti-tobacco education. Tobacco control advocates had used an initiative to secure the tax...

... Initiative and State Response Christa Altenstetter, International Institute of Management4erlin and City University of New York, and James Warner Bjorkman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Absfract. This paper analyzes the continuity and change in the relationship...

... recently, Medicaid block grants featured prominently in Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. This essay traces the history of Republican Medicaid block grant proposals, culminating in the Trump administration's Healthy Adult Opportunity initiative. It concludes that the Trump...

...Russ Lopez; Richard Campbell; James Jennings The Boston Schoolyard Initiative (BSI) is a policy effort to rebuild school yards in Boston through innovative citywide public-private partnerships. At the center of the initiative is a commitment to engage multiple stakeholders and utilize a bottom-up...

...Michael P. Traynor; Stanton A. Glantz In this case study, we describe and analyze the development and passage of California’s tobacco tax initiative, Proposition 99, the Tobacco Tax and Health Promotion Act of 1988. We gathered information from published reports, public documents, personal...

...Daniel G. Orenstein; Stanton A. Glantz Abstract Context: As of November 2018, medical cannabis was legal in 33 US states and recreational cannabis in 10, mostly enacted via ballot initiative. Methods: We identified 32 cannabis legalization initiatives from 2004 to 2016 and obtained campaign...

...Ezekiel J. Emanuel; Karen Titlow © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Commentary Evaluating Community-Based Health Initiatives: Identifying the Characteristics of Successful...

... from State Initiatives Joel C. Cantor Dina Belloff Alan C. Monheit...

.... There is a large, stable segment of the prepaid industry that developed as a result of private sector and community concern long before the federal HMO Act of 1973, and it is their initiatives along with increasing investment activity by insurance companies and management companies in particular, that will serve...

... the Right Kind of Failure: Postwar National Health Insurance Initiatives in Canada and the United States Antonia Maioni McGill University Abstract Health insurance was one of the most...

... their own managed care entities, share resources, and structure practice opportunities to support recruitment and retention of rural physicians and other health care professionals. The results of early network development initiatives indicate a need for state officials and others interested in encouraging...

..., Federalism, and the New Social Union. Canadian Medical Association Journal 162 : 1171 – 1174. Wright, J. 2006 . Public Rx's. Paper presented to Environment for Pharmaceutical Change in Canada: Challenge and Opportunities, Canadian Health Policy Implementation Initiative, Kingbridge Centre, King...

...Elizabeth Laposata; Allison P. Kennedy; Stanton A. Glantz Abstract Tobacco control advocates began to use ballot initiatives to enact tobacco control measures in the late 1970s. In response, the tobacco industry worked for over two decades to change laws governing initiative and referendum...

... organization resulting when issues of health are the organizing focus, and the benefits that were thought to result from efforts to increase citizen participation in social programs in the 1960's. When programs focused on increased citizen participation were initiated program administrators attempted...

...Rick Mayes; Thomas R. Oliver Why is it so politically difficult to obtain government investment in public health initiatives that are aimed at addressing chronic disease? This article examines the structural disadvantage faced by those who advocate for public health policies and practices to reduce...