School Sport Participation Under Two School Sport Policies
February 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Intramural sports offer a promising strategy to increase physical activity among middle school students.
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Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education
November 19, 2012 | Program Result
RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program helped dental schools increase access to dental care for underserved populations through expanded community-based education and recruitment of underrepresented minority and low-income students.
Assessing the Roles of Brokerage
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The North Carolina Division of Public Health established an innovative program in 2003 that placed public health epidemiologists (PHEs) in hospitals around the state to improve communication between hospitals and local public health departments (LHD ...
Looking at Comprehensive Safety Nets in Seven Communities
October 10, 2012 | Program Result
From 2009 through 2012, researchers analyzed access to care and the cost of care provided by comprehensive health care safety nets in seven communities.
Case Studies on the Health Care Safety Net
February 1, 2012 | Report
A bibliographic list of health care safety net case studies and their locations.
Exploring Walking Differences by Socioeconomic Status Using a Spatial Agent-Based Model
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This simulation suggests that increases in walking that occur when people of lower socioeconomic status feel more positive about activity are difficult to maintain unless the environment is safe. Efforts to increase safety most effectively support walking in mixed-use neighborhoods.
Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth
November 21, 2011 | Program Result
Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth brought school-connected mental health services to immigrants and refugees in 15 communities in eight states by developing model mental health programs.
Park-Based Physical Activity Among Children and Adolescents
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Parks are important to the well-being of children and adolescents they play an important role in increasing physical activity. This study assesses park use and park-based physical activity among children and adolescents, ages 0 to 18 in 2007.
Copayment Reductions Generate Greater Medication Adherence in Targeted Patients
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A large value-based insurance design program offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina eliminated generic medication copayments and reduced copayments for brand-name medications.
Providing Aid to Children Released to North Carolina from Immigrant Detention
October 22, 2010 | Program Result
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants developed a pilot project to provide aid to children who are released from immigrant detention in North Carolina - which has one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the country.