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January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: Voices for Change engages participants through Photovoice (photography and prose), providing opportunities for individual and group data gathering, reflection, dialogue and social action regarding neighborhood assets and issues.
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 19, 2007 | Story
How can the residents of a poor neighborhood, plagued by poor health, be mobilized to help reduce isolation; improve safety; promote physical, mental and spiritual well-being-and ultimately to achieve overall wellness?
July 6, 2012 | Feature
Each year, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders Award honors America’s best―10 unsung heroes who have forged their own solutions to the shortcomings and challenges facing our nation’s health care system.
November 1, 2012 | New Public Health Post
“The time is right for community health workers to be even more [integrated] into the community health system to help achieve the triple aim of better care, better outcomes and lower cost,” said Eduardo Sanchez, MD, MPH, vice president for medical a ...
October 31, 2012 | New Public Health Post
“The reason we got together was that the problems we were seeing when we asked, ‘what is making you unwell?’ were things traditionally unlinked to health such as violence and blight,” said German Martinez, program specialist for the Alameda health d ...
November 7, 2011 | Presentation Material
Healthy Communities Conference: On Monday, November 7, RWJF, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and The Pew Charitable Trusts will host the 2nd National Healthy Communities conference in Washington, DC. The all-day event will include an update on progress, with panels on systemic changes needed in policy, data and financing.
November 3, 2011 | Story
A partnership between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Federal Reserve System explores how the community development and health sectors can work together to improve health and well-being.
August 27, 2010 | Story
An opportunity to learn how investments in affordable housing, grocery stores, day-care centers, charter schools and more, can have a positive impact on health.
October 26, 2012 | Story
A Conversation with APHA executive director Georges Benjamin.