What Works for Health
Evidence matters. Our What Works for Health tool will help you find policies and programs that are a good fit for your community's priorities.
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Featured Strategies
These strategies can help your community in its health improvement journey.
Build assets through child development accounts (CDAs) with contributions from a sponsoring organization, such as government agencies or nonprofits, and family, friends; also called...
Expand federal or state child tax credits by increasing credit amounts, making credits refundable, decreasing or eliminating the earnings threshold, or creating a fully...
Provide financial assistance to working parents, or parents attending school, to pay for child care
Adjust and monitor fluoride levels in public water supplies to reach and retain optimal fluoride concentrations
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Learn how you can effectively use What Works for Health to find evidence-informed policies and programs to make a difference in your community and explore what's behind our evidence ratings.
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