Strategies

Involve consumers in health care governance via roles on governing boards, advisory committees, or shorter-term special projects

Improve work environments for nurses via establishment of strong nursing leadership, organizational support, etc.

Implement private sector rules or public sector regulations that prohibit smoking in and around multi-unit housing

Educate youth and college athletes, coaches, and parents about the severity of concussions in sports, proper prevention, detection, reporting, and treatment

Establish state level regulations that require nursing homes to employ at least a set number of licensed and non-licensed nursing staff, often set in terms of staff hours per resident day

Encourage participants to quit using tobacco by a set date or during a specific time period and give successful participants a chance to win financial rewards or other prizes; often called Quit & Win contests

Require retailers to purchase licenses to sell tobacco products; retailers must follow all tobacco control laws to keep licenses

Restrict full contact between youth football players via limits to the number of contact practices, head hits per player, delay tackling until a certain age, etc.