November 26, 2012
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Program Result
The Health Impact Project is advancing the use of health impact assessments (HIAs), used to determine the potential health effects of a proposed policy or project. Interest in HIAs is growing at the local, state, tribal and federal levels.
November 19, 2012
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Program Result
RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program helped dental schools increase access to dental care for underserved populations through expanded community-based education and recruitment of underrepresented minority and low-income students.
November 19, 2012
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Program Result
The Connecting With Care project of the Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention demonstrated that it was economically feasible to bring full-time, mental-health clinicians to schools in the low-income Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester and Roxbury.
November 16, 2012
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Program Result
For two decades Join Together served as a national resource center for local substance abuse initiatives, and promoted policies that enhance prevention and treatment. The Partnership at Drugfree.org is now the portal for these resources.
November 13, 2012
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Program Result
The solicitation was a broad call for ideas from the field to rein in spending without jeopardizing patient care. RWJF selected 12 of the most novel ideas and those most likely to engender far-reaching change.
November 13, 2012
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Program Result
From November 2010 through March 2012, the California Quality Collaborative (CQC) conducted an evaluation of its regional improvement effort aimed at reducing unnecessary services and engaging physicians in improving efficiency of resource use.
November 7, 2012
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Program Result
The Healthy Schools Program provides technical assistance to help schools engage administrators, teachers, parents and vendors in increasing access to physical activity and healthier foods for students and staff.
November 5, 2012
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Program Result
A Progress Report: Combating childhood obesity through local and state policy change.
October 31, 2012
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Program Result
The Convergence Partnership is a collaborative of funders creating healthy people in healthy places through policy and environmental change. It focuses on policy advocacy, access to healthy foods, and the built environment.
October 30, 2012
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Program Result
From 2006 to 2010, Common Ground, helped 31 state and local public health agencies improve their information systems and their system performance in order to meet the challenges of bio terrorism, potential pandemics, and chronic disease.
