March 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
From 1993 to 1996, researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, carried out a study to systematically examine the relationship between social experiments and public policymaking.
March 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
The National Center for Learning Disabilities, New York, carried out a project to provide teachers, school administrators, and health providers with better methods and tools to diagnose learning disabilities before children reach the third grade.
March 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
Kalkines, Arky, Zall & Bernstein produced a report evaluating state legislative initiatives intended to preserve the autonomy of the physician-patient relationship within the new cost and clinical constraints of managed care.
March 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1997, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) conducted research, produced publications and conferences, and provided technical assistance to state governments on the issue of immigrant access to health care.
February 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
The University of Maryland Baltimore County's Center for Health Program Development and Management contributed to the design, project management and evaluation of Maryland's High-Risk Patient Management Initiative.
February 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
From 1997 to 1998, researchers at Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, R.I., examined cigarette smoking as a barrier to cancer screening - both mammography and Pap tests - in women aged 40 to 75.
February 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
The Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York, and Barksdale Ballard & Company, a Vienna, Va., communications firm, produced a television broadcast and a multi-media curriculum to be used by grassroots organizations to promote the exploration of attitudes toward end-of-life issues.
February 1, 1999
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Program Result Report
During 1996 and 1997, staff at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Washington, Seattle, in collaboration with the International Society of Child and Adolescent Injury Preventiondeveloped information for a broad audience on strategies for the prevention of injuries to children and adolescents.
January 1, 1999
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Book
In their introduction of To Improve Health and Health Care, 2000, the authors Stephen L. Isaacs and James R. Knickman provide an overview for the third issue in the Anthology series.
January 1, 1999
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Book
In this Introduction to the Anthology, editors Stephen L. Isaacs and James R. Knickman discuss the Foundation's challenges as market forces increasingly dictate the way in which health services are delivered government can no longer be counted on to provide services for its neediest citizens and an aging population, with its attendant chronic conditions, threatens to strain a health care system attuned to treating acute illnesses.