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Out of Balance: A Look at Snack Foods in Secondary Schools across the States
The majority of our nation’s secondary schools do not sell fruits and vegetables in school stores, snack bars, or vending machines, according to a new report by the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project. Read More
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: An Assessment of the Evidence for Best Practices
A PDMP is a statewide electronic database that gathers information from pharmacies on dispensed prescriptions for controlled substances. This white paper describes what is known about PDMP best practices and documents the extent to which these practices have been implemented. Read More
Legal Review Concerning the Use of Health Impact Assessments in Non-Health Sectors
This report examines the legal foundations that support incorporating health considerations into policy and programmatic decisions made in non-health fields. The findings are intended to aid public health professionals and others who seek to ensure that such decisions are made with health in mind. Read More
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| Date | Reports | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2007 |
Pandemic Flu and the Potential for U.S. Economic RecessionA pandemic flu outbreak could sicken 90 billion and kill 2 million people in the United States, according to estimates, but a recent Trust for America's Health report examines another potential casualty-- our economy. According to the report, an outbreak could deliver a $680 billion blow to the U.S. economy, leading to the second worst recession since World War II. More info |
Pandemic Planning |
| Apr 23, 2007 |
The Book 'Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America' (Spring 2007 Trust Magazine briefing)A proposes legislative and administrative changes that would make saving for retirement easier for middle- and lower-income households, while at the same time offering practical savings ideas for workers. Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America was published by the Century Foundation Press and written by William G. Gale, J. Mark Iwry and Peter R. Orszag, Brookings Institution scholars who are principals of the Pew-supported Retirement Security Project, a partnership of Brookings and Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. More info |
Retirement Security |
| Apr 24, 2007 |
U.S. Public Opinion on Uses of Genetic Information and Genetic DiscriminationWhile Americans are generally very supportive of the use of genetic information to improve their own health and the health of their families, 92 percent are wary that this same information could be used in ways that harm them, according to a public opinion survey by the Genetics and Public Policy Center conducted in late February and early March of 2007. More info |
Genetics |
| May 10, 2007 |
Application of Biotechnology for Functional FoodsThe Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology final report provides an overview of functional foods—foods that are enhanced to provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition—and looks at the potential to develop these foods through the application of modern biotechnology. More info |
Food Safety |
| Sep 6, 2007 |
A Community of Beautiful MindsMore than 200 Pew Biomedical Scholars gathered earlier this year for the 20th anniversary reunion of the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. It’s fair to say that they were excited. More info |
Biomedical Research |
| Sep 12, 2007 |
Time For ChangeAcademic medical centers (AMCs) form the intellectual core of medicine, training future doctors and researchers, and establishing standards that guide practicing physicians in the wider community. Where pharmaceutical industry marketing conflicts with the goals of patient care and professionalism, AMCs can provide leadership and guidance by establishing new standards on physician-industry relationships. More info |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Oct 17, 2007 |
Pandemic Influenza: Warning, Children At RiskExperts predict a severe pandemic flu outbreak could result in up to 1.9 million deaths in the United States, approximately 9.9 million Americans needing to be hospitalized, and an economic recession with losses of over $680 billion to the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. How to treat and care for the nation’s 73.6 million children and adolescents during an influenza pandemic is a significant concern. More info |
Pandemic Planning |
| Nov 13, 2007 |
Subprime SpilloverIn the Center for Responsible Lending's December 2006 study, “Losing Ground,” CRL predicts that millions of American households will lose their homes to foreclosures in the subprime mortgage market. More info |
Consumer Financial Security |
| Dec 3, 2007 |
E. John Wherry's Flu-Vaccine ResearchSmithsonian Magazine recently featured young innovators in the arts and sciences, and one of the up-and-comers was E. John Wherry, Ph.D., an immunologist at the Wistar Institute. More info |
Biomedical Research |
| Dec 12, 2007 |
Time for Reform: Hoping for a Home for the HolidaysEach year, more than 500,000 children spend the holidays in foster care. In some cases the holidays may be spent with extended family, but more often it is spent with foster families to whom children are not related, or in group homes or institutional settings. Although foster care is an important safety net for children who have suffered abuse or neglect, being in foster care is not always easy. More info |
Health Topics |
| Jan 29, 2008 |
Time for Reform: Investing In PreventionApproximately 3.6 million children were reported to child protection authorities as possible victims of abuse and neglect in 2005. Unfortunately, few data exist about services provided to these children, but it is estimated only 2.5 percent of these children receive any kind of preventive services. We do know that, of the 899,000 confirmed cases of maltreatment, our child welfare system provides services or supports to approximately 60 percent of the children. More info |
Health Topics |
| Jan 30, 2008 |
Antimicrobial Resistance and Human HealthThe problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is growing in the United States and worldwide. This report explores the scope of the AMR problem and what can or should be done about AMR from the standpoint of animal agriculture. More info |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 9, 2008 |
Retirement Security for WomenAs the baby boomers approach retirement, hardly a day passes without reference to concerns — in media outlets, policy discussions, and research circles — about whether households are saving enough to finance adequate living standards in retirement. Most of this discussion, however, focuses on the generation as a whole. In this paper, we explore financial prospects and problems for women and policies that could materially improve their financial security in retirement. More info |
Retirement Security |
| Apr 10, 2008 |
Strengthening Families Through GuardianshipMore than 500,000 children will close their eyes tonight as wards of the state in foster care. They are waiting for the security, stability and love of permanent families. Foster care was created as a short-term safety net for children in crisis, however, on average children will languish in care for more than two years. More than half the children leaving foster care will return home to their birth parents, and about 18 percent will leave foster care to adoptive families. For some, however, reunification with their parents or adoption is not an option. More info |
Health Topics |
| Apr 16, 2008 |
Defaulting on the DreamFew imaginable economic events send the same message of fear and foreboding in America as a housing crisis. For most Americans, their homes are their greatest asset. And for the states, industries dependent on housing are cornerstones for economic growth and fiscal stability. More info |
Lending |
| Apr 29, 2008 |
Putting Meat on the TableThe current industrial farm animal production system often poses unacceptable risks to public health, the environment and the welfare of the animals themselves, according to an extensive two and a half year examination conducted by the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production. More info |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 16, 2008 |
Disclosure of Industry Payments to PhysiciansThis Prescription Project survey shows Americans are eager to understand financial ties between physicians and pharmaceutical industry. More info |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Jul 3, 2008 |
PharmFree ScorecardMost of the 150 U.S. medical schools are failing when it comes to building strong conflict of interest policies to limit pharmaceutical marketing on campus, according to the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) PharmFree Scorecard released today. More info |
Conflicts of Interest |
| Jul 23, 2008 |
Nanotechnology OversightThe next presidential administration will face a host of complex policy issues concerning energy, the environment, food safety, consumer products and the workplace. One issue, however, that will impact virtually all of these policy areas is nanotechnology oversight. More info |
Health Topics |
| Sep 17, 2008 |
Results of a National Survey on Produce SafetyA national survey of likely voters conducted for the Produce Safety Project, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts at Georgetown University, finds that the American voting public has significant concerns about produce safety. Voters believe that the federal government and food packagers bear the greatest responsibility for ensuring that produce is safe, and they say that neither group is doing a good job in this regard. Thus it is not surprising that most voters—across the demographic and ideological spectrums—wish to see the produce safety system significantly reformed, supporting new safety requirements even if they increase the cost of produce. More info |
Food Hazards |
| Sep 30, 2008 |
Time for ReformMany significant improvements have been made to the foster care system over the years, and across the country, case workers and court officials have worked to facilitate better outcomes for children in the government’s care. Yet the number of foster youth aging out of care keeps rising. In 2006, the latest year for which data are available, 26,181 youth aged out of care, a 119 percent increase since 1998. On average, youth who aged out of foster care in 2006 spent five years in the system, compared with less than two years for children who left through reunification, adoption, guardianship or other means. More info |
Health Topics |
| Nov 17, 2008 |
Lessons to Be Learned from the 2008 Salmonella Saintpaul OutbreakThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak of 2008 officially over on August 28, 2008, some three months after it began. During that time, more than 1,400 persons were reported infected, and if, as suggested by research, this represents an underreporting, the outbreak may have sickened thousands of Americans. Given the human, economic and public-health costs of this recent food borne-illness outbreak, therefore, it is critical to learn from it. This report represents the first extensive and in-depth review of the public record of the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak. In doing so, three areas of concern have surfaced: policy, the public-health system's organization and outbreak response, and its communications with the media and the public. More info |
Food Safety |
| Dec 12, 2008 |
Converting Basic Financial Services Fees into Prosperity12 percent of California households lack a bank account and pay fees to cash checks and pay bills, adding up to $700 annually for the typical unbanked household. The majority of these households appears to be qualified for bank accounts, but is either misinformed about the relative cost of banks or distrustful of them. More info |
Banking, Lending |
| Jan 12, 2009 |
Current Law Provides FDA with Authority to Mandate Safety Standards for ProduceLegal analyses by the Congressional Research Service and by the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University conclude that FDA has sufficient authority under existing law to adopt produce-safety regulations. More info |
Food Hazards |
| Jan 27, 2009 |
NanotechnologyNanotechnology has tremendous potential to contribute to human flourishing in socially just and environmentally sustainable ways. However, nanotechnology is unlikely to realize its full potential unless its associated social and ethical issues are adequately attended. More info |
Health Topics |
