Reports

Resources: Reports (65 available)

• 5-A-Day Quantity Recipe Cookbook

  http://www.ed.state.nh.us/education/doe/organization/programsupport/bnps/cookbook.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports, Tools
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition, Healthy Places

• The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/factsheets/factsheet3.html

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Tobacco

• Smoke-Free Policies: Establishing a Smoke-Free Ordinance to Reduce Exposure to Secondhand Smoke in Indoor Worksites and Public Places - An Action Guide

  Washington, DC: Partnership for Prevention, October 2008.

  http://www.prevent.org/images/stories/ActionGuides/smokefreepolicies.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Tobacco

• Reducing Tobacco Use: A Report of the Surgeon General

  Atlanta, GA: Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2000.

  http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2000/00_pdfs/FullReport.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Tobacco

• A Science-Based Framework for Early Childhood Policy

  Cambridge, MA: Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2007.

  http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php?cID=145

  Resource Type: Reports, Tools
  Recommendation Area: Early Childhood

• Disparities in Early Learning and Development: Lessons from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)

  Halle T, Fort N, Hair E, et al.  Washington, DC: Child Trends, June 2009. 

  http://www.childtrends.org/Files/Child_Trends-2009_07_10_FR_DisparitiesEL.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Early Childhood

• From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development

  Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2000.

  http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309069882

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Early Childhood

• Early Childhood Interventions: Proven Results, Future Promise

  Karoly LA, Kilburn MR and Cannon JS.  Santa Monica, CA: MG-341, The RAND Corporation, 2005.

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Early Childhood

• Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return

  The Region, December, 2003.

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Early Childhood

• Washington State Parents Need Assessment

  http://policyweb.sri.com/cehs/projects/displayProject.jsp?Nick=wadel

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Early Childhood

• Designed for Disease: The Link Between Local Food Environments and Obesity and Diabetes

  California Center for Public Health Advocacy, PolicyLink, and the University of California at Los Angeles Center for Health Policy $0 Research: April 2008.$0 $0

  http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/pubs/files/Designed_for_Disease_050108.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• Searching for Healthy Food: The Food Landscape in California Cities and Counties 2007

  California Center for Public Health Advocacy

  http://www.publichealthadvocacy.org/searchingforhealthyfood.html

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• WIC Turns 35: Program Effectiveness and Future Directions

  Devaney B. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research, 07-107: 2007.

  http://www.earlychildhoodrc.org/events/presentations/devaney.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2008

  Washington, DC: Trust for America’s Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2008.

  http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2008/Obesity2008Report.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition, Physical Activity

• Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Improving Access and Opportunities Through Food Retailing

  Flourney R and Treuhaft S. Oakland: PolicyLink and the California Endowment, Fall 2005.

  http://www.policylink.org/atf/cf/%7B97C6D565-BB43-406D-A6D5-ECA3BBF35AF0%7D/HEALTHYFOOD.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study-III: Summary of Findings

  Gordon A, Crepinsek MK, Nogales R, et al. Alexandria, VA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, Office or Research, Nutrition and Analysis, 2007.

  http://www.fns.usda.gov/ORA/menu/Published/CNP/FILES/SNDAIII-SummaryofFindings.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• Can Food Stamps Do More To Improve Food Choices? An Economic Perspective

  Guthrie JF, Frazão E, Andrews M, et al. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, April 2007.

  http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB29/DBGen.htm

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• Improving Child Nutrition Policy: Insights from National USDA Study of School Food Environments

  Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, February 2009.

  http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/20090102sndapolicybrief.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools: Leading the Way Toward Healthier Youth

  Institute of Medicine Committee on Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools. Washington, DC: National Academies of Press, 2007.

  http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/42/505/Food%20in%20Schools.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• Nutrition Standards and Meal Requirements for National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs: Phase 1. Proposed Approach for Recommending Revisions

  Institute of Medicine Committee on Nutrition Standards for National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs, National Research Council. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2008.

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance

  Institute of Medicine Committee on Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth. Koplan JP, Liverman CT and Kraak VI, et al (eds). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2005.

  http://www.iom.edu/?id=22623

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition, Physical Activity

• The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts: Workshop Summary

  Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC:  The National Academies Press, 2009.

  http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3788/59640/70463.aspx

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• Household Food Security in the United States, 2007

  Nord M, Andrews M and Carlson S. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, November 2008.

  http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR66/ERR66.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• The National School Lunch Program: Background, Trends, and Issues

  Ralston K, Newman C, Clauson A, et al. Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 2008.

  http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR61/ERR61.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• School Foods Sold Outside of Meals (Competitive Foods)

  Princeton: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2007.

  http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/docs/childnutrition/publications/competitivefoods/childobesity-researchbrief.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food—Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences: Report to Congress

  Ver Ploeg M, Breneman V, Farrigan T, et al. Washington: United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service,  June 2009.

  http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/AP/AP036/

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Nutrition

• SRTS Case Study: Chicago, Illinois Community Makes it Safe for Children to Walk to School

  http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/case_studies/pdfs/IL.chicago.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Physical Activity

• Energizers for Elementary School

  http://www.eatsmartmovemorenc.com/Energizers/Texts/K-5-Energizers.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports, Tools
  Recommendation Area: Physical Activity

• Recess Rules: Why the Undervalued Playtime May be America’s Best Investment for Healthy Kids and Healthy Schools

  Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2007.

  http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/sports4kidsrecessreport.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Physical Activity

• Healthy People in a Healthy Economy: A Blueprint for Action in Massachusetts

  New England Healthcare Institute. Boston: The Boston Foundation, June 2009.

  http://www.tbf.org/UtilityNavigation/MultimediaLibrary/ReportsDetail.aspx?id=10700&parentId=354

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Balancing the Needs of Families and Employers: Family and Medical Leave Surveys 2000 Update

  Washington, DC: United States Department of Labor, 2000.

  http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/fmla/cover-statement.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Are Low-Wage Workers Destined for Low Income at Retirement?

  Butrica B, Toder E. Washington, DC: Urban Institute, September 2008.

  http://www.urban.org/publications/411756.html

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Overtime and Extended Work Shifts: Recent Findings on Illnesses, Injuries, and Health Behaviors

  Caruso CC, Hitchcock EM, Dick R, et al. Atlanta, GA: United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2004.

  http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2004-143/pdfs/2004-143.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2009

  Washington, DC: United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, August 2008.

  http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ebs2.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Employment Situation Summary

  Washington, DC: United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

  http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• 2008 National Study of Employers

  Galinsky E, Bond JT, Sakai K. New York, NY: Families and Work Institute, 2008.

  http://familiesandwork.org/3w/2008nse.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Work-Family Issues and Low-Income Families

  Heymann SJ, Boynton-Jarrett R, Carter P, et al.  Ford Foundation Report, 2002.

  http://www.economythatworks.net/reports/ford_analysisfinal.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Improving Health: An Employer Toolkit

  Washington, DC: National Business Group on Health, 2006.

  http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/35/482/ToolKit06Web6.26.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports, Tools
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Influenza Symptoms, Protection, and What to Do If You Get Sick

  Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006.

  http://www.healthservices.umb.edu/PDF%20files/General%20Medicine/Influenza%20Symptoms.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Investing in Health: Proven Health Promotion Practices for Workplaces

  Washington, DC:  Partnership for Prevention, May 2008.

  http://www.prevent.org/content/view/133/

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• The 21st Century at Work: Forces Shaping the Future Workforce and Workplace in the United States

  Karoly L, Panis CWA. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2004.

  http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2004/RAND_MG164.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Child Care Assistance Helps Families at Work: A Review of the Effects of Subsidy Receipt on Employment

  Matthews H. Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy, 2006.

  http://www.clasp.org/publications/ccassistance_employment.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Commuting in America III: The Third National Report on Commuting Patterns and Trends

  Pisarski AE. Washington, DC: Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 2006.

  http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/ciaiii.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• A Profile of the Working Poor, 2006

  Washington, DC: United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, August 2008.

  http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2006.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• The CDC Guide to Breastfeeding Interventions

  Shealy K, Li R, Benton-Davis S. Atlanta: United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005.

  http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/pdf/breastfeeding_interventions.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts

  Wilkinson R, Marmot M (eds.) 2nd Edition. Denmark: World Health Organization Europe, 2003.

  http://www.euro.who.int/DOCUMENT/E81384.PDF

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health

  United States Department of Health and Human Services. 2nd edition. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, November 2000.

  http://www.healthypeople.gov/document/pdf/uih/2010uih.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Worker Health Chartbook, 2004

  Atlanta, GA: United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2004.

  http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2004-146/pdfs/2004-146.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Workplace Injury and Illness Summary

  Washington, DC: United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, October 2008.

  http://www.bls.gov/news.release/osh.nr0.htm

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Data Set Directory of Social Determinants of Health at the Local Level

  Hillmeier M, Lynch J, Harper S, et al. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers fo Disease Control and Prevention, 2003.

  http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/library/data_set_directory/pdfs/data_set_directory.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports, Tools
  Recommendation Area: Accountability

• Measuring health promotion impacts: A guide to impact evaluation in integrated health promotion

  Melbourne, Victoria: Rural and Regional Health and Aged Care Services Division, Victorian Government Department of Human Services, April 2003.

  http://www.health.vic.gov.au/healthpromotion/downloads/measuring_hp_impacts.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Accountability

• Recommendations for the Framework and Format of Healthy People 2020

  Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2020. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, October 2008.

  http://www.healthypeople.gov/HP2020/advisory/PhaseI/default.htm

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Accountability

• 2008 Wisconsin County Health Rankings

  http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/UWPHI/pha/wchr/2008.htm

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Accountability

• Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health: Review of Evidence on Housing and Health

  Bonnefoy XR, Annesi-Maesano I, Moreno Aznar L, et al. Budapest, Hungary: World Health Organization, 2004 

  http://www.euro.who.int/Document/HOH/ebackdoc01.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• The Impact of Overcrowding on Health and Education: A Review of the Evidence and Literature

  Centre for Comparative Housing Research and Health Policy Research Unit at De Montfort University Leicester. London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, May 2004.

  http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/housing/pdf/138631.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• The Influence of Community Factors on Health: An Annotated Bibliography

  Flournoy R, Yen I. Oakland, CA: PolicyLink, 2004. 

  http://www.policylink.info/CHB/default.html

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Home Ownership in a Risk Society: A Social Analysis of Mortgage Arrears and Possessions

  Ford J, Burrows R, Nettleton S. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2001.

  http://books.google.com/books?id=63cemeGw-jUC&dq=Home+Ownership+in+a+Risk+Society:+A+Social+Analysis+of+Mortgage+Arrears+and+Possessions.&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=QGerWOn1Hr&sig=amFQuD5v0riDGQwqjC5OhqiQCTU&hl=en&ei=DqPLSuy_LsvHlAecs-3TBQ&sa=X&oi=

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Moving On: Benefits and Challenges of Hope VI for Children

  Gallagher M, Bajaj B.  Washington, DC:  Urban Institute, 2007.

  http://www.urban.org/publications/311488.html

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Healthy People 2010 Midcourse Review

  Washington, DC: Department of Health and Human Services, 2006.

  http://www.healthypeople.gov/Data/midcourse

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Rethinking Local Affordable Housing Strategies: Lessons from 70 Years of Policy and Practice

  Katz B, Turner MA, Brown KD, et al. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy and The Urban Institute, December 2003. 

  http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2003/12metropolitanpolicy_katz.aspx

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Framing the Issues - the Positive Impacts of Affordable Housing on Health

  Lubell J, Crane R, Cohen R. Washington, DC: Center for Housing Policy, July 2007. 

  http://www.nhc.org/pdf/chp_int_litrvw_hsghlth0707.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• The Impact of the Mortgage Crisis on Children and Their Education

  Lovell P, Isaacs J.  Washington, DC: First Focus, April 2008.

  http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2008/04_mortgage_crisis_isaacs.aspx

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• The State of the Nation’s Housing 2009

  Cambridge, MA: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, 2009.

  http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/son/index.htm

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• Why Place Matters: Building the Movement for Healthy Communities

  Oakland, CA: PolicyLink, 2007. 

  http://www.policylink.org/site/c.lkIXLbMNJrE/b.5137443/apps/s/content.asp?ct=6997411

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places

• The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Healthy Homes

  Washington: United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2009.

  http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/healthyhomes/calltoactiontopromotehealthyhomes.pdf

  Resource Type: Reports
  Recommendation Area: Healthy Places