Strategies

What Works for Health includes evidence-informed strategies to create communities where everyone can thrive.

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Scrap programs for old vehicles

Provide incentives to trade in old cars or light duty trucks with low fuel efficiency and high emissions and buy new vehicles with higher efficiency and lower emissions; also called scrappage or vehicle early retirement programs

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  • Air and Water Quality

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits

Explore ways to increase Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program benefit amounts for aged, blind, or disabled individuals, including children, with little or no income

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  • Income

Synthetic progesterone (17P) access

Ensure appropriate access to 17P, a synthetic version of the hormone progesterone, by identifying high-risk women, reducing barriers to treatment receipt and completion, coordinating care, etc.

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  • Access to Care

Universal basic income

Provide all individuals with regular cash transfers, without conditions, over their lifetimes

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  • Income