Strong Medicine for a Healthier America
December 20, 2010 | Journal Article/Story
American Journal of Preventive Medicine supplement examines how social factors affect health and offers recommendations for action.
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Special Journal Issue of Preventing Chronic Disease Focuses on Community Partnerships to Improve Population Health
October 18, 2010 | Journal Article
A set of special essays in the November issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, a journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), presents a set of essays about partnerships toward improving community health.
Improving Our Children's Health Starts Where They Learn and Play
February 7, 2010 | Commentary
This commentary by James Marks, M.D., M.P.H., originally appeared February 8, 2010 on The Huffington Post.
Blue Ribbon Commission Reports Racial Disparities in Drug Addiction Policies - Makes Recommendations
December 23, 2009 | Program Result
The commission sought to influence drug policies and practices, held African-American drug policy summits, worked in communities around the country on drug policy issues and disseminated the commission's policy recommendations.
Breaking Through on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities
December 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
An Approach to Message Translation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America Slideshow
June 25, 2009 | Presentation Material
This slideshow details the Commission's recommendations and provides data to help better understand how social factors affect health.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America
April 9, 2009 | Issue Brief
The Commission's recommendations outline the greatest opportunities to improve the health of all Americans, including improving nutrition, physical activity and early childhood development eliminating tobacco use creating healthy places and establishing accountability for health impact in all policies.
Across America, Differences in how Long and how Well We Live
April 2, 2009 | Chart
The RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America urged all Americans to make healthier choices and society to help remove the obstacles so many people face in making those choices, issuing 10 cross-cutting recommendations for improving the nation's health.
Recommendations for Improving the Nation's Health
April 2, 2009 | Video
Video report summarizes findings of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America.
Conversation: Recommendations of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America
April 2, 2009 | Video
Commissioner and former ABC News anchor Carole Simpson hosts a video dialogue exploring the commission's findings.