Publications Beyond safety: the 2022 WHO abortion guidelines and the future of abortion safety measurement This article discusses limitations of the usual approach to the measurement of abortion safety, highlights the required reclassification of self-managed abortion as "safe," and calls for a new paradigm to emerge for the measurement and understanding of global abortion experiences that is centered in a rights-based conceptualization of quality care for all abortion experiences.
Campaigns Ukraine – Tobacco Control – We Are Not Smoke Friendly Here This campaign informs Ukrainians about the new smoke free law and explains public benefits of this initiative. Despite the war, under the new law, smoking and e-cigarette use will be prohibited in enclosed public spaces.
Campaigns Colombia – Road Safety – We All Share the Road This Colombia National Road Safety Agency speeding campaign personalizes and humanizes cyclists. It reminds drivers that bicyclists are their neighbors, relatives and friends. The main message is: “We all share the road. Respect speed limits, Slow down."
Campaigns Brazil – Road Safety – The Higher the Speed, the Higher the Risk Motorcyclists are the main traffic victims in the city of Salvador, Brazil. To address this, the city launched a mass media campaign in May 2022 paired with increased enforcement operations. The campaign features a motorcycle speedometer increasing speed, followed by the consequences of speeding and urging motorcyclists to follow the speed limit.
Campaigns Everyone Deserves to be Protected by an Equitable and Effective Public Health System At Vital Strategies, we’re reimagining public health, working for a world where everyone, everywhere is protected by equitable and effective public health systems.
Annual Reports 2021 Year in Review In 2021, we supported advances in health policy and practice in areas where progress had stalled for years, and we saw people and institutions who had not previously prioritized public health recognize it is everyone’s mandate.
Publications The Tobacco Atlas 7th Edition The Seventh Edition of the Tobacco Atlas, released by Vital Strategies and the Tobacconomics team at the University of Illinois at Chicago, serves as a warning call to all those who care about global health and economic development.
Campaigns Vital Strategies and the Pennsylvania Department of Health Raises Awareness for Naloxone to Save Lives, Combats Stigma for People Affected by Substance Use Vital Strategies worked with the The Pennsylvania Department of Health to launch a media campaign to raise awareness, minimize the barriers and counter stigma faced by Pennsylvanians who are at risk of a drug overdose.
Publications Measuring misclassification of Covid-19 as garbage codes: Results of investigating 1,365 deaths and implications for vital statistics in Brazil The purpose of this article was to quantify the amount of misclassification of the COVID-19 mortality occurring in hospitals and other health facilities in three Brazilian state capitals, discuss potential factors contributing to this misclassification, and consider the implications for vital statistics.
Publications A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in Kigoma, Tanzania This study presents the Program to Reduce Maternal Deaths in Tanzania's maternal health-related interventions and obstetric results from 13 years of implementation in Kigoma.