April 1, 2006
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Program Result
Project SHARED developed a community-based project to enable chronically ill, low-income people in two inner-city neighborhoods to better manage their own health and to engage in behavior change that supported health.
April 1, 2004
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Program Result
Between 1994 and 1998, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) conducted and evaluated a controlled, random-assignment housing relocation experiment called Moving To Opportunity.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result
The Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health studied Elder Health, a for-profit managed-care provider in Baltimore, Md., that serves individuals eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid (i.e., dually eligible).
October 1, 2003
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Program Result
The Head Start program at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science planned and implemented a substance abuse prevention project that worked to change community norms and behaviors that put children at risk of substance abuse.
July 31, 2008
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Program Result
Steven Whitman, PhD, of Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center of Chicago, conducted a health assessment survey to establish an evidence base from which health improvement strategies can be developed and targeted most effectively.
June 1, 2007
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Program Result
The University of Texas examined the perceptions of NYC residents of low-income areas about their neighborhoods to determine factors that help or hinder them from increasing their physical activity.
May 16, 2012
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Program Result
The Gateway Institute developed and launched a model to educate and prepare low-income New York City high school students for careers in the health professions, in partnership with a high school, a public hospital, and three public colleges.
August 4, 2010
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Program Result
ISAIAH, a faith-based community organization of 90 congregations, mobilized community activists to promote the links between transportation and access to healthy foods and to bring light-rail stops to low-income neighborhoods in the Twin Cities.
March 24, 2010
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Program Result
Shaniqua Ballard was living without much hope in a shelter for pregnant women, with little money and no health insurance, until she discovered the Developing Families Center, where she received obstetric and well-woman care, and enrolled her children in the child development program.
October 1, 2009
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Program Result
One Economy Corporation designed, launched and marketed a Web site, DC Healthcare for You, designed to help low-income residents navigate the Washington health care system and gain access to information on health.
