Report on Tobacco Control for the Region of the Americas 2022: Country Profiles

This report published by the National Academies Press (NAP) summarizes the proceedings of a workshop about pain treatment for patients with serious illness amidst the opioid epidemic. Speakers and presentations reviewed the nature of the opioid epidemic and the policies designed to combat it, showing how those responses affected people with serious illness. The workshop also addressed the special challenges for racial minorities, children, and those with both substance use disorder and serious illness. The…

This report published by Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund (Everytown) presents a comprehensive plan combining gun safety policies with school-based intervention strategies. The largest education unions in the United States partnered with Everytown to assess the status of gun violence in schools and draw from data, research, and recommendations to create an intervention plan to prevent mass shooting incidents and end gun violence. The report includes four main sections: an overview of gun violence…

This case study describes how scaled-up community-level primary healthcare in Brazil has reduced cardiovascular disease and infant deaths. Programa Saúde da Família (PSF) (“Family Health Program”) was launched in 1994 as a small pilot program that provided a decentralized free healthcare system, and has rapidly become the main strategy for Brazil’s entire national health system and the largest comprehensive, community-based primary healthcare program in the world. This case provides a snapshot of PSF as an…