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September 4, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
This year, the National Diaper Bank Network is recognizing the week of September 10-17 as National Diaper Need Awareness Week, and local diaper banks across the country have asked their state and local officials to do the same.
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: The Health Equity and Prevention Primer examines historical and current causes of inequities in health care and lays out opportunities and directions for a more equitable future.
February 21, 2010 | Evaluation
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities works to implement healthy eating and active living policy- and environmental-change initiatives that can support healthier communities for children and families across the United States.
January 26, 2010 | Program Result
From 2006 to 2009, staff members at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, worked to raise the profile and influence of community health workers in the health care system and among policy-makers.
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Reducing health disparities is central to the work of both social epidemiology and community-engaged interventions, but practitioners in both fields have had little success working together to reduce health inequalities. The authors recommend promoting transdisciplinary training and practices.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The economic value of bringing the health status and longevity of all American adults up to the level of those with a college education is estimated at more than a trillion dollars a year.
September 1, 2001 | Journal Article
There is room to increase the public's knowledge about the broad determinants of health.
April 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
May 1, 2007 | Journal Article
To what extent are physicians currently involved in community affairs.
May 1, 2005 | Program Result
From April 1998 through May 2004, the Grantmaker Forum on Community & National Service (now Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement), Berkeley, Calif., formalized its structure and revised its mission.