Resources

This commentary reflects on recent experiences of the sugary drinks industry's marketing responses to taxes instituted to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks. It presents evidence that strategic communication can play an instrumental role in protecting strong taxes from industry responses.

The Epidemiology Guide provides an overview of key overdose and substance-use indicators; key data investigation questions; suggestions on how to secure, analyze, and stratify data; possible data sources; examples; and references.

This snapshot looks at the reported incidence of diversion, assault, and conduct citations at the six jails in Pennsylvania that together provided buprenorphine to more than 1,000 individuals over an 18 month period through this state-funded grant program.

This study aimed to quantify the health and economic impacts of air pollution—fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ground-level Ozone (O3), which exceeded the local and global ambient air quality standards—in Jakarta Province, the capital of Indonesia.

With electronic medical records (EMRs) becoming more common, greater opportunities have emerged for them to be used as a data source for population-based cancer registries. To explore this issue, international partners have collaborated to form the E-NNOVATE Project.

STREAM was an MDR-TB clinical trial that recruited over 1000 participants. We documented challenges and best practices/lessons learned from the site perspective to improve implementation of future trials.

This brief provides an overview on using satellite data for air quality and health applications, resources and trainings for cities to start integrating satellite data into their air quality management plans and national and access to regional datasets.

The purpose of this guidance is to help civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system stakeholders increase rates of vital event registration.