Passing Policies That Promote Urban Health

Lessons From the CityHealth Project

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ID11032046
AuthorsDavid H Jernigan (0000-0002-0789-6917, David H. Jernigan is with the Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Katrina Forrest, Catherine Patterson, and Brian Castrucci are with the de Beaumont Foundation, Bethesda, MD.), Katrina Forrest (David H. Jernigan is with the Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Katrina Forrest, Catherine Patterson, and Brian Castrucci are with the de Beaumont Foundation, Bethesda, MD.), Catherine Patterson (0000-0003-3860-3408, David H. Jernigan is with the Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Katrina Forrest, Catherine Patterson, and Brian Castrucci are with the de Beaumont Foundation, Bethesda, MD.), Brian C Castrucci (0000-0002-4117-2832, de Beaumont Foundation), Brian Castrucci (David H. Jernigan is with the Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Katrina Forrest, Catherine Patterson, and Brian Castrucci are with the de Beaumont Foundation, Bethesda, MD.)
Year2025
Volume115
Issue6
Pages864-867
Publication date2025-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2025.308036
PMID40209160
OpenAlexW4409323858
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

Cities are important laboratories for cross-sectoral collaboration and advancing equity. CityHealth, a project of the de Beaumont Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, used legal epidemiology to identify, score, and promote nine city-level policies important to population health in the 40 largest US cities from 2017 to 2021. The project supported 86 policy changes over five years. These results demonstrate possibilities for encouraging passage of city-level health-enhancing policies and the need to move beyond scoring and ranking to direct policy advocacy. ( Am J Public Health. 2025;115(6):864–867. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308036 )

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