August 27, 2009
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Program Result Report
An electronic database and map of reentry services available to prisoners returning from New York City's jails to communities in its five boroughs finds services are often inaccessible.
March 30, 2009
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Individuals and organizations who have made extraordinary contributions toward improved influenza vaccination rates within their communities.
March 12, 2009
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Overall health will not improve until factors outside of the medical care system also are addressed.
October 17, 2008
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Program Result Report
The Foundation for the Mid South engaged stakeholders in a planning process to launch the Mid South Health Initiative, designed to identify strategies that would improve the health of people in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
December 1, 2006
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Program Result Report
The RAND Corporation synthesized and disseminated information on effective community interventions to address racial and ethnic disparities in six health areas.
June 1, 2005
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Program Result Report
Project staff at the Urban Institute commissioned seven research-based discussion papers by leading experts in the field of public health and prisoner reentry, and sponsored a two-day conference based on issues and findings detailed in the papers.
March 1, 2004
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Program Result Report
The Carter Center launched the Interfaith Health Program, which brought together religious groups, religious foundations and public health organizations to find ways that the religious community could respond to community health problems.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
The State of New Mexico Department of Public Health developed a project to achieve statewide consensus on an appropriate intervention strategy for the hepatitis C epidemic in New Mexico.
March 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
The Medical and Health Research Association of New York City refined its "pulse study" methodology, which uses billing information and other administrative databases to quickly assess emerging public health issues.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
Experts from the social, behavioral, physiological and medical sciences developed a plan to study how the extent to which people are socially connected (that is, have relationships with others) affects their physical health.