January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
From 1993 to 1996, the National Youth Sports Coaches Association, West Palm Beach, Fla., the only national nonprofit organization that certifies volunteer youth coaches, carried out two related but separate initiatives.
January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
Norman J. Ornstein, Ph.D. of the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, and Thomas E. Mann, Ph.D. of the Brookings Institution, Washington, wrote a book, Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy (AEI/Brookings, 1995), about how Congress could improve its work in health policy.
January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
This initiative serves low-income, foreign-born children of elementary school age who have lived in the United States for two years or less and who have unresolved health or medical problems and/or are having difficulty in obtaining the health care services they need.
January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
Faculty at Harvard Medical School's Center for the Study of Culture and Medicine explored the influence and effects of culture and ethnicity on the access to and quality of health care services from an anthropology perspective.
January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
From 1993 to 1994, staff from the Advocacy Institute evaluated the potential role of international tobacco-control expertise and experience in enhancing U.S. tobacco-control efforts.
November 1, 1996
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Program Result Report
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care documented the implicit criteria used to determine "medical necessity" related to mental health, and the influences of financial incentives and organizational arrangements on medical necessity decisions.
November 1, 1996
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Program Result Report
The Boston University School of Management identified the issues that need to be examined in order to determine what organizational characteristics and policies are necessary for the provision of cost-efficient care by physicians.
November 1, 1996
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Program Result Report
The University of Michigan Medical School compared the utilization of all diagnostic imaging and selected laboratory tests for patients from eight hospitals in Canada and the United States.
November 1, 1996
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Program Result Report
During 1995 and 1996, researchers at the Barents Group conducted an external evaluation of the Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) initiative as part of an overall Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) review of HCFO. (See Grant Results on the program.)
November 1, 1996
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Program Result Report
This unsolicited project was designed to bridge the significant gap in services that combat homelessness and those that fight against malnutrition in women and children.