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In 2016, the government of Bangladesh introduced a pilot project to create an effective system for registering deaths and determining their causes. Training community-based health workers, physicians, and coders were successful approaches to improve death registration completeness and availability of cause-of-death data.

The U.S. faces a public health crisis of opioid-related harm, the effects of which could be dramatically reduced through increased access to opioid agonist therapy with the medications methadone and buprenorphine. This commentary outlines immediate, concrete steps that federal, state, and local governments can take to change law from barrier to facilitator of evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder.

This campaign explains how consumption of sugary drinks can add up over time and explains the consequences – tooth decay and type II diabetes.

This campaign ran in Colombia, calling for clear nutrition labels for food products.

This campaign ran in Colombia, calling for clear nutrition labels for food products.

This campaign ran in Colombia, calling for clear nutrition labels for food products.

Creating a programmatic norm of integrating into national civil registration and vital statistics systems the vital events information collected from existing community health programs has the potential to provide governments with information essential for public health decision-making.

This campaign features personal testimony from a tobacco victim.