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.
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.
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.
RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America to Release Recommendations Report
March 12, 2009 | Story
Overall health will not improve until factors outside of the medical care system also are addressed.
America's Health Starts with Healthy Children
October 1, 2008 | Chart
This chartbook from the RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America focuses on the health of children to explore whether we are reaching our full health potential as a nation and in every state.
RWJF Launches Commission to Build a Healthier America
February 27, 2008 | Video/Story
The nonpartisan commission will investigate how factors such as education, environment, income and housing shape and affect personal behavioral choices. The United States spends more on health than any other nation. Yet, the U.S. ranks at or near th ...
Commission Seeks Ways to Foster Better Health Outcomes and Improve the Health of All Americans
February 27, 2008 | Story
Foundation issues new report which finds poor, minority and middle-class Americans with less education live sicker and die younger.