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November 26, 2012 | Program Result Report
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.
April 11, 2012 | Program Result Report
The Healthy Students, Healthy Minds project of Padres Unidos is working with Denver school board officials to implement a recess-before-lunch policy in all public schools, a schedule that gets kids to eat better and reduces discipline problems.
April 11, 2012 | Program Result Report
Communities Creating Healthy Environments aims to curb childhood obesity in communities of color by using community organizing for social justice to advocate for policy changes color. Read this report on its progress.
June 20, 2011 | Program Result Report
In 2004, a group of regional collaboratives established the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) to accelerate the formation and effectiveness of such collaboratives across the country.
May 23, 2011 | Program Result Report
The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project is a coalition of more than 50 leading employer, consumer and labor organizations that seeks to give consumers and health care purchasers a greater voice in deliberations over performance measures.
November 19, 2010 | Program Result Report
The Institute of Medicine convened an expert committee that developed principles and recommendations on preventing conflicts of interest and threats to objectivity in medical research, education and practice stemming from industry funding.
October 22, 2010 | Program Result Report
Researchers from the University of California, Davis, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences analyzed spending of federal funds for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure across metropolitan regions nationwide and conducted case studies.
September 9, 2010 | Program Result Report
The National Quality Forum convened a steering committee that created a framework for evaluating the efficiency of health care over time and identified gaps in current health care quality measurement.
May 18, 2010 | Program Result Report
Developing an accreditation system to encourage public health departments to measure their performance against national standards.
April 26, 2010 | Program Result Report
Some 304 school health nurses and 199 other school health personnel, social workers and community partners received training using the "Trauma to Triumph" curriculum developed by Louisiana State University School of Nursing.