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How Residential Mobility and School Choice Challenge Assumptions of Neighborhood Place-Based Interventions
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Health interventions that are long-term and place-based are embraced as providing low-income families with comprehensive services. To better understand the benefits from these services, this study assesses the role of residential mobility and the us ...
Positioned for Transformation: Expanding the Scope of Health Care
May 18, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Deborah Bae and Jane Issacs Lowe discuss the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s “Realigning Health with Care.”
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launches $9.5 Million Initiative to Improve Health and Success of Young Men of Color
August 20, 2012 | News Release
RWJF investment brings important leadership to issue gaining momentum among philanthropists and policymakers
Avertable Deaths Associated with Household Income in Virginia
April 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Nearly a quarter of all deaths in Virginia from 1990 to 2000 would have been averted if the entire state exhibited the same mortality rate as the state's five most affluent areas, according to this analysis of public data.
Where Health Disparities Begin
October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Health disparities by racial or ethnic group or by income or education are only partly explained by disparities in medical care.
Reclaiming Futures Initiative from a Sicangu Lakota Tribal Perspective
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Tribal grantee strengthens and coordinates services for troubled youth and their families.
Health Care's Blind Side: Unmet Social Needs Leading To Worse Health
December 7, 2011 | News Release
In new, national survey, three in four physicians wish the health care system would pay for costs associated with connecting patients to services that address their social needs.
Innovative Nursing Care Model Goes Mainstream With 100th Home
September 28, 2011 | News Release
New poll, economic data underscores demand, viability of The Green House model.
Effects of Community Factors on Access to Ambulatory Care for Lower-Income Adults in Large Urban Communities
March 1, 2004 | Journal Article
This study examines the effect of community factors and individual factors on access to ambulatory care for low income adults in 54 metropolitan areas across the United States. Two indicators were used to measure access: (1) having a usual source of ...
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NCB Capital Impact Announce $10 Million Loan-Fund to Expand Innovative Skilled-Nursing Care to Low-Income Seniors
September 8, 2011 | News Release
Marks first transaction in Foundation's new $100 Million "impact capital" commitment.