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Improving Health by Combining Medicine and Law

February 28, 2013 | New Public Health Post

A new article published by the Association of American Medical Colleges highlights the important work of medical-legal partnerships. These efforts improve the health and well-being of low-income and other vulnerable populations by addressing unmet l ...

Promoting Community Health Workers to Reduce Health Disparities in Minnesota

December 20, 2012 | Program Result

Staff at the College of Allied Health and Nursing of Minnesota State University at Mankato created a curriculum and certification process for community health workers and advanced their role in the state's health care system.

Developing Universal Symbols for Health Care Facilities

May 13, 2011 | Program Result

Project staff worked with a design team to create and test a set of universal graphic symbols to help people with limited proficiency in English find their way around health care facilities.

Better Jobs Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce

April 27, 2011 | Program Result

Better Jobs Better Care supported changes in long-term-care policy and provider practices to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among the paraprofessionals who provide direct care to older adults and to improve the quality of that care.

Oregon Works!: Promoting Change Through Person-Directed Care

April 25, 2011 | Program Result

The Oregon Works! project of Better Jobs Better Care aimed to improve recruitment and retention of direct-care workers at eight participating long-term-care sites. The union representing the state's independent home-care workers also participated.

Vermont: Empowering Direct-Care Workers Through Education

April 25, 2011 | Program Result

"We made sure we developed both centralized and individualized curricula that addressed the needs expressed by each participating site" in the Vermont Better Jobs, Better Care project, said the project director.

Pennsylvania: Forming Regional Coalitions in a Large State

April 25, 2011 | Program Result

The lead agency for the 40-member Pennsylvania coalition for the Better Jobs Better Care project divided the state into five regions in order to provide a local focus on long-term care worker issues in the large state.

Iowa: Giving Direct-Care Workers a Voice

April 25, 2011 | Program Result

The Iowa Better Jobs, Better Care project involved a 20-member coalition and 13 long-term-care nursing facilities and home care agencies in developing, implementing and evaluating the practice interventions.

Identifying Effective Catalysts for Action Toward Community Health Improvement in Underserved Communities in Wisconsin

January 4, 2011 | Report

Knowledge Asset: The goal of this project is to promote broad-based community health improvement in underserved rural communities in Wisconsin through a low-cost health communication intervention.

Expanding the Ability of Practitioners and Scholars to Assess Law as a Tool to Improve Public Health

January 4, 2011 | Report

Knowledge Asset: An ongoing study examines the breadth of local public health decision-making authority and describes how local public health ordinances fill gaps in or supplement existing state and federal public health ordinances.

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