Publications

A new approach in air quality management that combines conventional solutions with innovations in monitoring, assessment, data use, and organization can accelerate clean air action, especially in cities with presently limited technical capacity.

Air pollution is both manageable and preventable. This resource was developed to present evidence and experiences to policymakers to inspire urban mobility policies that save lives by improving air quality.

Este documento reúne experiências e recomendações de políticas de mobilidade urbana que salvam vidas pela melhoria do ar que respiramos. O objetivo é oferecer aos gestores públicos as evidências acerca dos impactos do transporte na saúde para comunicarem da melhor forma a implementação de políticas de transporte às vezes impopulares, mas muito necessárias para melhorar a saúde coletiva.

Government action and public education should articulate that diets high in ultra-processed foods are harmful, and policies should aim to reduce that harm.

Focused on a state with the fifth highest drug overdose mortality rate in the U.S., this study examined the perspectives of staff in six hospitals on the processes, challenges, and facilitators to buprenorphine initiation and warm handoff protocols in emergency departments. It yielded results that can be used to optimize implementation of those evidence-based modes of treatment and ongoing care.

Verbal autopsy is a technique for determining the most medically likely causes of death, where no physician is available to complete a medical certificate of cause of death. This study analyzed the reliability of a particular model of verbal autopsy for estimating the probability that the causes of 112 deaths in São Paolo, Brazil, were associated with COVID-19.

This study's findings support the adoption of warning labels that can improve consumer understanding of nutrition information and assist consumers in determining the nutritional quality of packaged foods and drinks.

Since 2015, Tanzania has been upgrading its civil registration and vital statistics system including efforts to improve the availability and quality of mortality data. In this case study, the computer application ANACONDA provided an effective means for evaluation of such efforts and helped target interventions to remaining weaknesses.