Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change

This resource, from the American Cancer Society and the National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program, may be used by coalitions and policy committees or task force groups to achieve their healthy community goals.

This guide can help organizations become effective policy advocates and educators for building community resilience.

This site, from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, provides communities with information to help select and implement evidence-informed policies, programs, and system changes that will improve the variety of factors we know affect health.

The CDC Healthy School website provides numerous resources for engaging school systems in PSE change.

This CDC initiative highlights non-clinical, community-wide approaches that have evidence reporting (1) positive health impacts, (2) results within five years, and (3) cost effectiveness and/or cost savings over the lifetime of the population or earlier.

This interactive site, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, incorporates your location to help identify policies and programs that may have the biggest impact on health and medical costs.

An independent panel of public health and prevention experts collects these evidence-based interventions to help you select programs to improve health and reduce disease.

The National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) brings together health data and environmental data from national, state, and city sources and provides supporting information to make the data easier to understand. 

These sites, which offer fee-based and public access resources, allow users to download and map a range of community-level demographic, health and other data.

This interactive map from the Tobacco Control Network allows user to identify state-level tobacco control policies.