Press Release on health-related topics.
October 24, 2017
by Carla K. Johnson and Jill Colvin
ABC News/Associated Press
“An emergency declaration without significant new funds will likely be unsuccessful. The problem is enormous and requires a similar investment in a comprehensive strategy that includes primary prevention,” said Becky Salay, director of government relations at Trust for America’s Health, a Washington-based public health research and advocacy organization.
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October 4, 2017
WebMD
Over 50? These Problems Can Sneak Up on You.
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October 3, 2017
by Linda Fried
Los Angeles Times
Other studies also have shown that preventing illness is far less expensive than paying for treatment. Trust for America’s Health estimates that “an investment of $10 per person per year in proven community-based programs to increase physical activity, improve nutrition, and prevent smoking and other tobacco use could save the country more than $16 billion annually within five years. This is a return of $5.60 for every $1.” With ever-rising health care costs, how can we overlook such opportunities?
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September 28, 2017
by Julia Belluz
Vox
Dating apps like Tinder and Grindr have made sex more readily available — and have also made the job of public health more difficult to do, said John Auerbach, president and CEO of the public health nonprofit the Trust for America’s Health.
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September 25, 2017
by David
Public Health Newswire
The nation’s public health organizations stand in opposition to the Graham-Cassidy bill, the latest effort to overturn the Affordable Care Act, which may come to a vote in the Senate this week.
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September 25, 2017
by VIKAS BAJAJ and STUART A. THOMPSON
New York Times
Below, we list those we’ve been able to identify as for and against the bill. Conservative religious and anti-abortion groups favored the bill because it prevented people on Medicaid from using their insurance at Planned Parenthood clinics and prevented health care plans sold on the federal health care marketplace from covering abortion beyond existing limitations.
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Washington, D.C., September 25, 2017 – Below is a statement from American Public Health Association, Prevention Institute, Public Health Institute, and Trust for America’s Health on Graham-Cassidy, which would cause millions to lose healthcare coverage, decrease access to clinical preventive services, and eliminate the Prevention and Public Health Fund.
“Graham-Cassidy would do untold damage to the nation’s health, unraveling the progress we’ve made to expand access to quality, affordable healthcare, reorient our healthcare system to value prevention and equity, and invest in a healthier future for all Americans.
Graham-Cassidy upends efforts to improve the nation’s health in the future by threatening to strip people of access to preventive care and zeroing out the Prevention and Public Health Fund. Over the next five years alone, states and communities stand to lose more than $3 billion in funding to prevent chronic disease, stop the spread of infectious diseases, and invest in resources that support health and equity. The Prevention and Public Health Fund also provides 12 percent of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual budget. Losing this much funding—about $900 million a year—would irreparably damage our public health infrastructure, including our ability to respond to disasters and emerging epidemics. These short-term cuts will lead to more chronic conditions and exact a heavy burden of preventable illness and death – as well as higher healthcare expenditures for worse health outcomes – down the line.
Investing in public health makes the difference between health and illness, safety and injury, and life and death. The deep cuts this bill proposes – to Medicaid, to public health and prevention – would touch every community, especially those communities that are struggling most with longstanding inequities in health and safety.
Passing Graham-Cassidy is tantamount to legislative malpractice. The undersigned groups find this approach unacceptable and strongly urge Congress to work in a bipartisan manner to improve the nation’s public health and healthcare systems.”
September 20, 2017
by CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY
Politico
The Trump administration has targeted some Obama-era policies aimed at improving school lunches and nutrition. Groups like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America’s Health, which helped publicize the report, said policymakers need to keep current nutrition standards for school foods, require menu labeling and invest in public health programs. Pros, more about the study here.
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September 20, 2017
by RICHARD BESSER AND JOHN AUERBACH
The Hill
Seven years ago, Congress enacted landmark legislation directing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to update nutrition standards for school meals. It was a long overdue step. Childhood obesity rates in the United States had tripled over the previous three decades, but it had been 15 years since nutrition standards for those programs had been updated.
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September 19, 2017
HealthDay
The findings were recently detailed in the annual State of Obesity report from the RWJF (a philanthropy that supports research and programs targeting health issues in America) and the nonprofit Trust for America’s Health.
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