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December 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Latino children run the highest risk of being uninsured in the United States; 21 percent lack health insurance. The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was founded in 1997 to provide coverage to uninsured children. Past studies have es ...
November 19, 2012 | Program Result
RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program helped dental schools increase access to dental care for underserved populations through expanded community-based education and recruitment of underrepresented minority and low-income students.
August 23, 2010 | Story
2010 Community Health Leader winner creates a "medical home without walls" to meet the special needs of homeless women in the Boston area.
April 19, 2010 | Program Result
The Diabetes Initiative and its individual projects have contributed to the expansion of diabetes self-management at the state level and nationwide.
March 24, 2010 | Program Result
North End Outreach Network in Springfield, Mass., expanded outreach to soon-to-be-released inmates and their families and coordinated access to social and medical services once they returned to the community.
October 8, 2009 | Story
Sonith Peou, program director, Metta Health Center, Lowell, Mass., is being honored for his efforts to ensure access to culturally sensitive health services for the large Cambodian-American community in Lowell.
April 20, 2012 | Program Result
Close to Home, a Dorchester, Massachusetts-based organization, using a community-mobilization approach to prevent domestic violence, launched an effort to replicate its prevention program in three communities in Massachusetts.
June 22, 2004 | Program Result
The National Association of State Units on Aging designed and tested a tool and process that allow states the opportunity to evaluate the extent to which they offer consumers opportunities to make choices and direct their own health care and support services.
July 1, 2003 | Program Result
From 1992 to 2000, Boston University School of Medicine expanded its primary care-oriented curricular and educational experiences.
June 1, 2006 | Program Result
On the Rise created a new program director position and hired a doctoral student who wrote a 2005 research report, What it Means to be Successful: Lessons from the Lives of Homeless Women.