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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Urban Policy
  • Health Equity

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  • Cities are crucial for cross-sectoral collaboration and advancing health equity.
  • The CityHealth project aimed to address population health challenges in urban environments.
  • Effective policy is a key determinant of public health outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify, score, and promote city-level policies crucial for population health.
  • To evaluate the impact of legal epidemiology on policy change in major US cities.
  • To assess the effectiveness of direct policy advocacy over scoring and ranking.

Main Methods:

  • Legal epidemiology framework applied to identify and score nine key city-level policies.
  • Intervention focused on the 40 largest US cities from 2017 to 2021.
  • Project involved direct policy advocacy and support for policy changes.

Main Results:

  • Successfully supported 86 policy changes across the 40 largest US cities over five years.
  • Demonstrated the feasibility of implementing health-enhancing policies at the city level.
  • Identified the need for direct policy advocacy to drive significant health improvements.

Conclusions:

  • City-level policy initiatives can significantly impact population health and advance health equity.
  • Direct policy advocacy is more effective than solely relying on scoring and ranking systems.
  • The CityHealth model offers a scalable approach for promoting urban health policies.