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Primary seat belt enforcement laws
Allow law enforcement officials to stop drivers solely for failing to use a seat belt
Professionally trained medical interpreters
Provide interpretation services for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) in outpatient and inpatient health care settings, following training and certification
Promise Academy Charter Schools
Create a school culture of high behavioral and academic expectations, with intense tutoring, increased teacher performance feedback, lengthened instruction time, and health care services
Proper drug disposal programs
Establish programs that accept expired, unwanted, or unused medicines from designated users and dispose of them responsibly
Public deliberations
Bring people with diverse values and perspectives together to engage in facilitated, inclusive, and informed dialogues about a topic of public concern. Examples include Citizens’ Initiative Reviews, deliberative polling, citizen juries, and citizen’s assemblies.
Public health and the new administration
As a new administration rolls into D.C. this month, those of us in public health are asking ourselves what the future holds. To kick off 2025, we’re bringing our listeners an interview with a nonprofit public health leader to ask his perspective on issues most relevant to the field.
Public libraries for community building
Lend materials, offer gathering space, and provide educational, civic, and social programming; open to the community and publicly funded
Public reporting of health care quality performance
Make clinician, hospital, clinic, long-term care facility, and insurance plan performance on health care quality measures publicly available via report cards, reporting websites, or similar tools
Public reporting of health care-associated infections
Make health care facilities’ health care-associated or hospital-acquired infection (HAI) rates readily available to patients and providers
Public transportation systems
Introduce or expand transportation options that are available to the public and run on a scheduled timetable (e.g., buses, trains, ferries, rapid transit, etc.)