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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When states offer prenatal care coverage to unauthorized immigrants women get the care they need and babies get healthier.
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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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Incidence of child protective services interaction is not associated with parent involvement with the criminal justice system due to child maltreatment.
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Speakers discuss their research on the relationship between state domestic violence-related firearm laws and rates of intimate partner homicide across all 50 states from 1991-2015.
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States with laws requiring people that are subject to domestic violence restraining orders relinquish their firearms have lower rates of intimate partner homicide.
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May-issue laws, those in which authorities have some discretion in whether or not to issue concealed carry permits, may prevent homicide deaths.
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