February 24, 2011
|
Report
The report compares the rates of elective, or "preference-sensitive," procedures across regions and suggests that differences in clinicians' personal beliefs and opinions contribute to the variation.
November 21, 2011
|
Program Result
Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth brought school-connected mental health services to immigrants and refugees in 15 communities in eight states by developing model mental health programs.
November 20, 2011
|
Story
Minneapolis, Imperial County, Calif., and Chatham County, N.C., sustained school-connected mental health services for immigrants and refugees started under Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth.
November 20, 2011
|
Story
Projects in Boston and Minneapolis, Minn., provided special school-connected mental health services to help refugees and immigrants recover from trauma under Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth.
June 27, 2011
|
Program Result
The Center for New Community conducted a grassroots effort to address health and related problems of immigrants working in meatpacking and poultry-processing plants in 12 rural communities in Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota.
April 18, 2011
|
Program Result
Ten hospitals throughout the country joined a collaborative learning network, developed strategies to improve the quality and accessibility of their language services, and tested them using five standardized performance improvement measures.
January 1, 2010
|
Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between exercise and mild cognitive impairment among elderly individuals.
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.
September 30, 2008
|
Story
"I've always been a very curious person-sometimes to my parents' chagrin because I would take things apart and not be able to put them back together," Roberts recalls.