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November 1, 1996 | Program Result
From 1993 to 1995, staff at the National Chronic Care Consortium enhanced its organization's ability to disseminate information related to the development of new and better ways to treat patients with chronic health problems.
October 17, 2008 | Program Result
Jewish Family Service of Atlantic County worked to improve home care for frail older residents of Absecon Island, in New Jersey, who were being discharged from hospitals and other care facilities.
March 1, 2007 | Program Result
The National Minority Health Month Foundation created a minority health status database and used it to determine whether different outcomes were related to minority versus non-minority ZIP codes.
December 10, 2007 | Story
Today, Care for Elders is the Houston area's largest, most diverse and most experienced partnership focused on elder care issues.
April 24, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jason Houle, recently published a study that finds association between depressive symptoms and mortality is due to later health problems, not prior physical health conditions.
April 5, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Investing in programs that prevent chronic diseases would ultimately decrease the costly long-term expenditures driven by those diseases, Ashok Reddy writes.
December 8, 2011 | Program Result
Community Partnerships for Older Adults (CPFOA) aimed to improve long-term care and supportive systems for vulnerable older adults by fostering collaborative partnerships and building community capacity.
October 4, 2011 | Program Result
Under the state of New Jersey's Nurse Delegation Pilot Program, registered nurses delegated specific health care tasks performed in the homes of some Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities or chronic conditions to certified home health aides.
October 30, 2012 | Story
As director of public health informatics and chief epidemiologist in the Wisconsin Division of Public Health, Lawrence Hanrahan helped integrate chronic disease information systems and improve chronic disease surveillance.
April 2, 2012 | Journal Article
As several studies have shown, an association between periodontal disease and chronic kidney disease (CKD), regular dental care may be an important strategy for reducing the burden of CKD.