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Our Health Policy Matters often focuses on public health and prevention policy issues.

For more information about a variety of public health topics, please click on any of the following column titles.  You will be taken to the full column (and to hyperlinks within each column to sources of good public health data and information):

From Twinkies to Tofu: The Ten Best Public Health Initiatives Ever

The Shock of Sudden Violence

The Tragedy of Sandy Hook

Secession Fever

What a Waste

To Be Healthy, Live Among the Wealthy?

The Biggest Environmental Disaster of the Decade

The 13,386 Lives Congress Sacrificed Last Week

The Curse of the Super Bowl Chargers

Term Limits Are Bad for Your Health

The Growing Obesity Challenge

For a Less Healthy State, Cut Business Taxes

Public Health Spending Prevents Deaths

How Increasing Our Obesity Rate is Becoming Federal Policy

Thanking Public Health Professionals for Longer Lives

What's At Stake for Health in the Budget Debates

The Nuclear Nightmare in Japan

Violence is a Public Health, Not a Mental Health, Problem

Healthy Reforms


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