Neighborhood Perceptions and Active School Commuting in Low-Income Cities
October 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Improving neighborhood environments to make them more pleasant are likely to increse active travel to and from school.
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New Jersey
August 30, 2013 | Feature
From its beginnings in a New Brunswick house, the Foundation has maintained a steadfast dedication to the welfare of the citizens of its home state, and to New Jersey's leading academic and health care institutions and community-based organizations.
Health Insurance Covering Preventive and Wellness Care for Independent Workers
July 23, 2013 | Program Results Report
Freelancers Union built on its experience running a health insurance company to launch nonprofit insurance CO-OPs - authorized under the Affordable Care Act to compete with for-profits on health insurance exchanges - in OR, NJ, and NY.
Building a Model Patient Room to Test Design Innovations With Actual Patients
July 17, 2013 | Program Results Report
Before building a new hospital, a team at the Princeton HealthCare System built a model patient room to test design innovations with actual patients.
Cash & Counseling
June 11, 2013 | Program Results Report
The Cash & Counseling program created a cost-effective model of participant-directed services to improve the health of frail older adults and other people with disabilities and contributed to national policy change on participant-directed services.
Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders
May 30, 2013 | Program Results Report
From 2007-2012, Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Health Care Leaders - a $3.6 million national program - provided training to 219 early-to-mid-career professionals working with vulnerable populations in eight communities.
A Closer Examination of the Relationship Between Children's Weight Status and the Food and Physical Activity Environment
May 30, 2013 | Journal Article
Data from four inner-city neighborhoods were gathered to demonstrate how geospatial locations and well-specified geographic areas are an important aspect when studying the associations of weight status with food and physical activity environments.
Creating a Healthy Concession Stand
May 29, 2013 | Program Results Report
The Food Trust of Philadelphia and the Princeton, N.J., Recreation Department updated the concession menu at the pool complex, reducing calorie counts of popular foods and beverages, and adding healthier choices.
New Jersey's HIV Exposure Law and the HIV-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Sexual and Seropositive Status Disclosure Behaviors of Persons Living with HIV
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
A study of associations between HIV-positive people’s awareness of New Jersey’s HIV exposure law and their HIV-related attitudes, beliefs and seropositive disclosure behaviors found that awareness of the law had little effect on the disclosure behavior of HIV-positive individuals.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Grantmaking and Collaboration in the State
November 1, 2012 | Report
A report describes recent programs RWJF supports, and how RWJF’s grantmaking in the state has become more strategic and collaborative.