APA Services supports the Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act, bipartisan legislation that would ensure Medicare provider payment rates keep pace with inflation.

Half of the world’s population still does not have adequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) which could have prevented at least 1.4 million deaths and 74 million disability-adjusted life years in 2019, according to the latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and an accompanying article published in The Lancet.

WHO and UNICEF have jointly released a new toolkit to support countries’ implementation of mandatory comprehensive policies to restrict the food marketing children are exposed to.

The World Health Organization’s Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing and ThinkWell launched a learning collaboration in 2019 to explore the interplay among decentralization, public financial management (PFM), and health financing.

A first-of-its-kind World Health Organization (WHO) Global report on sodium intake reduction shows that the world is off-track to achieve its global target of reducing sodium intake by 30% by 2025. 

Partnership for Healthy Cities award recipients include Montevideo, Uruguay for food policy; Mexico City, Mexico for road safety; Vancouver, Canada for surveillance; Athens, Greece for overdose prevention, and Bengaluru, India for tobacco control.