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The Need for Healthier Beverage Recommendations
Mary Story, director of Healthy Eating Research, and Tracy Fox, president of Food, Nutrition and Policy Consultants, discuss why we need healthier beverage standards.
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Meet Six Prize-Winning Communities
The RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize honors outstanding community partnerships that are helping people live healthier lives. These communities are creating a culture of health in their backyards. They were selected in 2013 from more than 160 applicants for their innovative strategies.
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A Look Back: The Campaign for Action Summit on the Future of Nursing 2013
From February 28 through March 1, 2013, Action Coalitions from throughout the nation gathered in Washington for the summit. More than 200 leaders from nursing, medicine, business, health systems, philanthropy, and academia joined to share innovative ideas for transforming health care and improving health.
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Unsung Heroes of the Storm
When Hurricane Sandy barreled ashore, bringing with it high winds and heavy seas, public health professionals stared disaster in the face. Though the job of recovery seemed daunting, they proved equal to the task at hand.
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Inside the Buckingham Schools Renovation Project
In 2006, Terry Huang, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, proposed a new approach to combating childhood obesity: architecture. VMDO Architects, in collaboration with the University of Virginia and University of Nebraska, redesigned a 1950s-era elementary school in rural Virginia to encourage healthy eating and physical activity among all students.
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Care About Your Care 2013
A national conversation about what hospitals, primary care practices, post-acute care facilities, and patients are doing to improve care transitions and reduce hospital readmissions.
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Documenting the Work of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities
February 8, 2012 | Video/Presentation Material
A video series focusing on three diverse communities shows how this national program aims to reverse childhood obesity.
Expanding "Hot Spotting" to New Communities
January 1, 2012 | Video/Presentation Material
What We're Learning about Coordinating Health Care for High-Utilizers.
Looking Upstream
April 26, 2011 | Audio/Presentation Material
On April 26 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will host a webinar on the effects that income, education and race have on health.
Place and Health
April 26, 2011 | Audio/Presentation Material
This webinar was the third in a three-part series exploring how conditions where we live, learn, work and play affect our health, built on the work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America.
School Policies and Practices to Improve Health and Prevent Obesity
November 1, 2010 | Survey/Poll/Video/Presentation Material
Elementary school practices fall short of national recommendations for diet and physical activity.
Care Management of Patients with Complex Health Care Needs
December 1, 2009 | Issue Brief/Audio/Presentation Material/Report/Video
Health policy experts discuss various care management programs which seek to reduce costs while enhancing quality for people with complex health care needs. Patients with complex health care needs account for a high percentage of annual medical ex ...
Assessing Your Current Spread Activities for TCAB
November 12, 2009 | Toolkit/Video/Presentation Material
June 2008. Tom Priselac, CEO, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, speaks about the all-encompassing, team approach that has made the Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) approach successful at Cedars-Sinai. The Goal: Disseminate best practices and imple ...
American Public Supports Investment in Prevention as Part of Health Care Reform
November 10, 2009 | Report/Video/Presentation Material
Nearly two-thirds rank prevention investments as important.
All Roads Lead to Payment
June 10, 2009 | Video/Presentation Material
Experts in the field of health care payment discuss a variety of solutions to correct widespread deficiencies and increase value in our health care system.
Real-Time Care Planning
June 4, 2008 | Video/Presentation Material
Prairie Lakes Healthcare System, in Watertown, S.D., developed a patient care planning process that meets regulatory standards but excludes a written report to decrease the amount of time nurses spend on documentation.