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.
December 1, 2002
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Program Result
Priscilla J. Murphy explored the practices, knowledge and attitudes regarding physical activity through four focus groups: mothers on welfare, chronically ill adults, senior citizens and low-income, minority women.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result
In 1999, the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, conducted a conference entitled, Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrial Nations: Social, Psychological, and Biological Pathways.
January 31, 2001
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Program Result
David R. Williams, PhD, MPH, professor of sociology at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, Mich., studied the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health.
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.
October 1, 1997
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Program Result
The initiative provides care coordination of health and social services to elementary school students and their younger and unborn siblings in families with incomes under 180 percent of the poverty level who live near one of two schools.
September 1, 2006
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Program Result
Between 1999 and 2001, the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, researched a series of briefing papers examining the characteristics of the uninsured.
February 1, 2007
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Program Result
The Food Research and Action Center wrote a white paper on the relationships between poverty, hunger and food insecurity, as well as the role of federal food nutrition programs in reducing hunger and obesity.
November 27, 2012
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Program Result
In 2010, the National Urban League launched an initiative to address childhood obesity through policy and program activities both on the national level and through its local affiliates.
