A New Version of Meals on Wheels
In Low-Income Neighborhoods, Special Efforts to Ship in Healthy Food
The Arcadia Mobile Market works the streets of Washington to get fresh fruits and vegetables to low-income residents at risk for obesity, diabetes and other side-effects of unhealthy diets.
Why the Y is Tackling Diabetes
Find a YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program in Your Area
A diabetes prevention program developed by the YMCA will be covered by Medicare in 2018.
How States Are Battling the Opioid Epidemic
States are on the Front Lines of Trying to Control Opioid Abuse, Deaths
In Alaska, the state’s health commissioner has long had a range of unique public health problems to confront; the scourge of opioids is just the latest.
Helping States Boost Public Health
At the State Level, Resources and Efforts on Health Differ Widely
Finding resources to help state health leaders battle wide range of epidemics has always been a struggle.
Why Healthy Play Spaces Matter
In Areas Where Kids Lack Play and Exercise Options, Health Falters
What can cities and states do to get kids to play – and shed pounds? A research project aims to find out.
Declines in Smoking Rates Threatened
After Five Decades of Progress, Budget Cuts and Rollbacks Could Reverse Tobacco Trends
More than a third of U.S. teens smoked just 20 years ago; now, less than 10 percent do. Are those public health improvements imperiled?
Building a Local Public Health Movement
Obesity, Mental Health Measures Advance with Assist From Citizen Involvement
In Colorado, a nonprofit group is dedicated to helping the state get healthier, one ballot initiative at time.
Community Public Health Strategies
How Nonprofits and Health Systems Can Boost Residents’ Health at Local Level
A public health expert who has worked in the public and private sectors describes ways that effective health care strategies can come from the bottom up.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
To Understand Health, You Need to Understand Where People Live
A top public health expert says America is not getting good value for its health dollar, in part because it’s spending money in many of the wrong places.
How the Media Cover Public Health
Public Health Officials Often Need Media to Get Message Out
When local officials need to warn the public about emerging health threats, they rely on the media. How well does it respond?
A Tobacco-Free Future?
Building a Tobacco-Free Generation Is Goal
Restricting tobacco sales to people born after a certain date could be the first step in efforts to eliminate tobacco use entirely.
Global Data on Tobacco Use
Finding Data to Document Prevalence of Tobacco Use and Efforts to Curtail It
An expert from the World Health Organization shows journalists how to access and use data on tobacco use worldwide.
Peddling Cigarettes
Tobacco Companies Aim Efforts at International Women to Build New Markets
An expert on tobacco marketing says the latest efforts in advertising and packaging are geared toward women, whose smoking habits lag behind men
Tobacco Control Success Stories
Two Nations Have Made Substantial Efforts to Curb Tobacco Use
How the United Kingdom and Russia clamped down on smoking - and how other countries could follow suit
New TB Drug for Children
Strawberry Flavor Makes Medicine Palatable
One million kids get TB every year; finally, a medicine made for them.
Tobacco Markets Are Shifting
Flavored E-Cigs Create New Markets for Tobacco
Dying for a smoke? Every day tobacco kills 14,000 people.
The Worst Forms of TB
More Research Needed for MDR-TB
Virulent drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis are on the rise.
What’s New in Tuberculosis
Statistics Tell The Tale of TB
TB is curable in 95 percent of cases. So why is TB still killing 1.5 million people a year globally?
Taxes and the Business of Tobacco
WHO Framework on Tobacco Control
New Challenges of e-Cigarettes
Quitting Tobacco
Tobacco and Health
Tobacco Advertising & Litigation
Mobile Tech for Tobacco-Related Disease
Hookah and Water Pipes
Tobacco Control
