What We're Learning

Results show that ads with moral framing, rather than economic self-interest framing, may lead to more Americans signing up for health insurance. 

Participation in a college preparatory program (AVID) that groups together middle-performing with high-performing students was associated with better outcomes related to health behaviors, social networks, and psychosocial wellbeing.

From the abstract, "Cities with a paid sick leave policy had 17 percent higher vaccination coverage than cities without such a policy. We found stronger associations between paid sick leave and vaccination in the most socially vulnerable neighborhoods compared with the least socially vulnerable ones, and no association in the population ages sixty-five and older. Paid sick leave policies are associated with higher COVID-19 vaccination coverage and narrower coverage disparities. Increasing access to these policies may help increase vaccination and reduce inequities in coverage."

New research confirms that messages using respectful and transparent language in gun violence prevention advocacy efforts are the most likely to encourage gun owners to support those policies advocated by public health professionals. 

This paper introduces the COVID-19 US State Policy (CUSP) Database, a continuously updated repository of policies, as well as highlights how the research conducted using the database has impacted policy decisions.

This study extends previous findings on how the policy of later secondary school start times improves the health and well-being of adolescents, highlighting that healthy start times contribute to increased sleep opportunity for MS and HS teachers and improved daytime functioning for HS teachers, with changed start times having no significant negative effect on elementary school teachers.

Time works just as well to reduce stress. There was no difference between participant groups that ate healthy food, unhealthy food, or no food at all after being exposed to a stressor.

The TROLLEY (TRansit Opportunities for HeaLth, Livability, Exercise and EquitY) study will use rigorous methods, as described in this Study Protocol paper in BMC Public Health, to advance our understanding of health, well-being, and equity-oriented outcomes of new light rail transit (LRT) li