Using Policy Tools to Improve Population Health – Combatting the U.S. Opioid Crisis
2021
This article from The New England Journal of Medicine illustrates how policy tools can be utilized to improve population health, using examples from the U.S. opioid crisis, which has resulted in over 500,000 deaths since 1999. This article outlines the five essential steps needed to use public policy to advance population health and address complex public health challenges–and how these tools have been applied in the context of the opioid crisis in the United States.
Using Policy Tools to Improve Population Health – Combatting the U.S. Opioid Crisis
Source:
Barry C, Saloner B. Using Policy Tools to Improve Population Health – Combatting the U.S. Opioid Crisis. The New England Journal of Medicine 2021; 385: 2113-2116. DOI: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2102323.