Pop Health Twitter Roundup (8/2/11)

 The latest and greatest from @PopHealth:

• Separate & Unequal: The Neighborhood Gap for Black, Hispanics, and Asians in Metropolitan America (via US2010 Project)

• Linking transportation policy & health -- new report from Partnership for Prevention

• New from the Commonwealth Fund: The U.S. Health System in Perspective: A Comparison of Twelve Industrialized Nations

• New Canadian report sees key role for social media: "Communicating the Social Determinants of Health"

• SAMHSA announces new approach to Prevention and Promotion, incl. grants specifically for tribes & tribal communities

• NYT "Fixes" columnist David Bornstein writes about "Treating the Cause, Not the Illness" in his piece on Health Leads

• Environmentalists laud automakers for prioritzing fuel economy as carmakers back strict new rules for gas mileage

• How a park helped one town weather the recession

• UC Berkeley journalism students offer USDA ideas for revamping food labels

• Almost 50% of U.S. health care spending will come from government coffers by 2020 says new report from Health Affairs