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In communities across the nation, leaders in government, business, education, housing, and many other fields are coming together to advance changes to help people live longer, healthier lives.

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Commission to Build a Healthier America Public Meeting

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Commission to Build a Healthier America June Meeting Agenda

This is the agenda for the June 19, 2013 RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America public meeting.

RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize

The RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize honors outstanding community partnerships which are helping people live healthier lives. The six winners w...

Watch the Video, Earn the Credits

Learn how to improve care transitions and prevent avoidable hospital readmissions, and pick up nursing and medical education con-ed credits.

Commission to Build a Healthier America

The reconvened Commission to Build a Healthier America will provide new guidance in two key areas: early childhood and healthy communities.

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 ...

The Commissioners of the RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America

The full list of commissioners for the re-convened Commission to Build a Healthier America, led by Mark McClellan and Alice Rivlin.

Progress in New Mexico: A New Kind of Education System for a New Generation of Nurses

Community college students in New Mexico will be able to remain in their home communities and complete BSNs through the collaborative effort...

Influencing Cultural Norms Through Social Networks Could Improve Mental Health

Pioneer Program Officer Lori Melichar discusses using social network insights to solve perplexing health and health care problems.

Public Health News Roundup: May 21

Study: Many Laws on Detecting Youth TBIs, But None on Preventing Them

A new study in the American Journal of Public Health found that there are laws dealing with traumatic brain injuries in youth sports in 44 s...

New Survey: Physicians, Nurse Practitioners Disagree on Nurses’ Role in Providing Primary Care

A study finds that 96 percent of nurse practitioners and 76 percent of physicians agreed with IOM report recommendation that “nurse practiti...

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