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Heroic Nurse – the Last Surviving 'Angel of Bataan and Corregidor' – Passes Away
Mildred Dalton Manning, the last surviving member of a group of U.S. Army and Navy nurses taken prisoner in the Philippines at the start of ...
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In this chapter of the Anthology, Alexis Levy, a communications associate at the Foundation, reports on the development and execution of the Foundation’s efforts to reduce childhood asthma. To do this, the Foundation funded a broad interlocking series of programs to address asthma from various perspectives. Designed to complement the pediatric asthma work carried out by the federal government and by nongovernmental organizations, the perspectives included a policy component, a coalition-building component, a curriculum development component, a financing component, and a component to improve the treatment of patients going to emergency departments to treat an asthma attack.
To Improve Health and Health Care, Volume XII
- 1 Foreword
- 2 Editors' Introduction
- 3 Acknowledgments
- 4 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Politics of Health Care Reform
- 5 Research on Health Insurance Coverage
- 6 Enrolling Eligible People in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program
- 7 Shaping Public Policy as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Approach
- 8 Improving Health Care in Rural America
- 9 The Catholic Social Services Outreach Project
- 10 Helping Former Prisoners Reenter Society
- 11 Community-Based Dental Education
- 12 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Efforts to Address Pediatric Asthma
RWJF Anthology
Biennial book series to disseminate what we have learned from various aspects of our grantmaking.
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