South Carolina Nurse Works to Stop Cancer Before It Starts
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Debbie Chatman Bryant, DNP, RN, with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
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Lawyer Uses Legal System to Battle Poverty, Improve Health for Working Poor
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Amy Johnson, JD, with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
Alabama Program Teaches Cosmetologists and College Students to Conduct Community-Based Health Outreach
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
Faculty in the Department of Nursing at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., trained cosmetologists and others to deliver community-based health education and screening services.
Taking it to the Streets: Community Health Workers Improve Access for Low-Income Residents
January 28, 2002 | Program Result
The New Community Corporation, the largest nonprofit housing corporation in New Jersey, worked with Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere), a worldwide humanitarian organization in health care, to train Community Health Workers.
Outreach Program Adapted to Improve Health Care for Asian People in Philadelphia
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals and New York University Downtown Hospital worked together to develop and implement the Chinese Community Partnership for Health, designed to improve the health of Asian populations in Philadelphia.
How the Health and Community Development Sectors are Combining Forces to Improve Health and Well-Being
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The root causes of poor health experienced by many who live in low-income neighborhoods are well documented, but often go beyond the scope of the health care delivery system. Growing partnerships between the health and community development sectors are forming to address these challenges.
Community Development Efforts Offer a Major Opportunity to Advance Americans' Health
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Community development and public health are two forces that often have the same goals. By enhancing the opportunities for good health in the places where we live, learn, work, play and worship, community development initiatives can be important drivers of improved health.
Partnerships Among Community Development, Public Health, and Health Care Could Improve the Well-Being of Low-Income People
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The community development "industry" draws on public subsidies and other financing to transform impoverished neighborhoods into better-functioning communities. There is a strong potential for cross-sector collaborations to reduce health disparities and slow the growth of health care spending, while improving economic and social well-being in America's most disadvantaged communities.
Despite Obstacles, Considerable Potential Exists for More Robust Federal Policy on Community Development and Health
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the Obama administration's urban policy create an opportunity to link community development with health in new and powerful ways.
Strong Medicine for a Healthier America
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's President and CEO, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey introduces a supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that makes public the research of the Commission to Build a Healthier America.