November 7, 2012
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Program Result Report
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 Report
A Progress Report: Combating childhood obesity through local and state policy change.
October 31, 2012
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Program Result Report
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 Report
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.
October 29, 2012
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Program Result Report
From 2006 to 2010, AcademyHealth hosted health policy conferences, research meetings, and sessions on state-level research and policy to build and support the field of health services research and its application to health policy.
October 29, 2012
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Program Result Report
Researchers at Western Health Information Network demonstrated the technical feasibility of using a voluntary universal health care identifier card to link each person with their health record.
October 29, 2012
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Program Result Report
B Lab expanded and improved the rating system it uses to certify B corporations, particularly in the areas of health and safety issues. B corporations have charters that require them to conduct business in a socially responsible manner.
October 10, 2012
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Program Result Report
From 2009 through 2012, researchers analyzed access to care and the cost of care provided by comprehensive health care safety nets in seven communities.
October 3, 2012
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Program Result Report
MISSION: READINESS (retired high-ranking members of the military) advocated to reverse childhood obesity by focusing on the threat it poses to national security through meetings and letters to policy-makers, reports, and media coverage.
September 28, 2012
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Program Result Report
An analysis of the differences in the way 10 health insurance plans in Massachusetts covered the medical costs associated with serious diseases.