June 4, 2006
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Program Result
Improving Asthma Care for Children was a national program of RWJF to test new approaches to managing asthma in children receiving care through Medicaid managed care - sometimes paid for through the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
June 1, 2006
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Program Result
In 2004, the Walking Shield American Indian Society arranged for U.S. military reserve units to provide dental health services to six Indian reservations and conducted an evaluation of this effort.
August 1, 2006
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Program Result
The Madre Angela Dental Clinic provided oral health care services to impoverished people in Milwaukee, including: urgent dental care services, dental sealants for children to prevent tooth decay, and restorative care.
August 1, 2006
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Program Result
Shepherd's Hope, a faith-based, nonprofit organization in Orlando, Fla., that operates free walk-in primary care clinics staffed by volunteers, expanded the capability of four clinics and opened four new ones.
September 1, 2006
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Program Result
The Urban Institute assessed the health status of residents who were relocated as part of a federal program - called HOPE VI - to demolish decaying public housing developments and replace them with mixed-income housing.
December 1, 2006
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Program Result
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals and New York University Downtown Hospital worked together to develop and implement the Chinese Community Partnership for Health, designed to improve the health of Asian populations in Philadelphia.
December 1, 2006
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Program Result
The journal Health Services Research published a supplemental issue designed to educate researchers on a range of social and other non-medical factors that influence health, including social and economic status, ethnicity and race.
August 16, 2005
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Program Result
Jo Phelan, PhD, and Bruce Link, PhD, sociologists and epidemiologists at Columbia University, elaborated and tested their theory that certain social conditions, such as socioeconomic status, may be fundamental causes of diseases.
December 1, 2005
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Program Result
The staff of the Perry Family Health Center facility links patients with social and educational services offered by other agencies located in the same building, an old school converted into a multipurpose community center.
January 16, 2004
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Program Result
Reach Out of Montgomery Country, a non-profit corporation in Dayton, Ohio, provided free care for medically underserved low-income individuals, after hours, at two existing community health centers in Dayton.
