Evidence for Action (E4A) funds research evaluating the population health, wellbeing, and racial equity impacts of programs, policies, and practices. What We're Learning is a repository of media pieces, research articles, presentations, reports, and other materials highlighting E4A supported research and findings. Sort by topic or resource type.
To promote elementary physical education, a compliance law is not enough—schools need more resources in the form of financial support for more teachers, evidence-based curricula development, professional development for class room teachers, and trainings/technologies to help schools track and report physical education minutes.
Briefs, Reports, and Infographics resource
Understanding the interplay of economic instability and individual health income with family and social network level economic and food insecurity can aid in the development of interventions aimed at improving health and wellbeing.
Published Research resource
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program has positive economic impacts, as well as psychological health and wellbeing. Rescinding the program could have serious population-level mental health and wellbeing repercussions.
Published Research resource
With approximately 1 in 15 US children born to undocumented immigrant parents, interventions expanding access to prenatal care have the potential to make a big difference to maternal and child health.
Commentaries resource
Expanding prenatal care to unauthorized immigrant women resulted in more prenatal visits, receipt of adequate prenatal care, and increases in diabetes screenings and ultrasonograms. Children were also more likely to attend well child visits and get vaccinations.
Published Research resource
Hundreds of lives could be saved each year if all states required people under domestic violence restraining orders to relinquish their firearms and instituted may issue laws, giving authorities some level of discretion over the issuance of concealed carry permits.
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The presentation outlines the theoretical framework, research design, preliminary findings, and next steps.
Presentations resource
State laws that prohibit people subject to a domestic abuse related restraining from owning guns and requiring them to relinquish any firearms in their possessions save lives. Such laws led to reductions in total and firearm-related intimate partner violence homicide rates.
Published Research resource
Unauthorized immigrants are mostly left out of the Affordable Care Act and are often unable to access or afford medical care. Expanding prenatal care to unauthorized immigrants positively impacts the health of both the mothers and their citizen children.
Popular Press resource
When states offer prenatal care coverage to unauthorized immigrants women get the care they need and babies get healthier.
Briefs, Reports, and Infographics resource
A network of community distribution partners (CDPs) was associated with higher use of food assistance, which is in turn associated with lower food insecurity.
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States restricting possession of large capacity ammunition magazines also have lower numbers of mass shootings.
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