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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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One doctor in Camden, NJ, Jeffrey Brenner, used data to map “hot spots” of health care high-utilizers—one patient had gone to the hospital 113 times in a year—and found a better, cheaper way to treat these costly patients through collaborative care.
Fall River, Massachusetts: RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize
February 21, 2013 | Feature/Video
Fall River, Massachusetts is one of the six winners of the inaugural RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize. The prize honors outstanding community partnerships, which are helping people live healthier lives.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize
February 21, 2013 | Feature/Video
Cambridge, Massachusetts is one the six winners of the inaugural RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize. The prize honors outstanding community partnerships, which are helping people live healthier lives.
Santa Cruz County, California: RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize
February 21, 2013 | Feature/Video
Santa Cruz County, California is one of the six winners of the inaugural RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize. The prize honors outstanding community partnerships, which are helping people live healthier lives.
New Orleans, Louisiana: 2013 Roadmaps to Health Prize
February 21, 2013 | Feature/Video
New Orleans, Louisiana is one of the six inaugural winners of the RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize. The prize honors outstanding community partnerships, which are helping people live healthier lives.
Manistique, Michigan: RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize
February 21, 2013 | Feature/Video
Manistique, Michigan is one of the six winners of the inaugural RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize. The prize honors outstanding community partnerships, which are helping people live healthier lives.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize
February 21, 2013 | Feature/Video
Minneapolis, Minnesota is one of the six winners of the inaugural RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize. The prize honors outstanding community partnerships, which are helping people live healthier lives.
Healthier Foods: It's Just Good Business
February 7, 2013 | Video/Infographic
Healthier products can contribute to a healthier bottom line for restaurant chains and food and beverage companies.
What's Next Health: Jake Porway
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The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries who see issues a little differently. Jake Porway, a data scientist and machine-learning enthusiast, talks about Big Data.
What's Next Health: danna boyd
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The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries who see issues a little differently. danah boyd—social scientist and high priestess of internet friendship—challenge our assumptions and discuss what this all means for health.