Using Policy Tools to Improve Population Health — Combating the U.S. Opioid Crisis
- 2 December 2021
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 385 (23), 2113-2116
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp2102323
Abstract
Policy has been critical to achieving major public health advances, including in tobacco control, maternal and child health, and injury prevention. The opioid crisis illustrates five steps essential for using policy to produce substantial gains in population health.Keywords
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