July 17, 2013
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Culture of Health
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RWJF is investing $5 million to support 10 initiatives to improve the health of young men of color and improve their chances for success.
May 1, 2010
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Journal Article
Obesity disproportionately impacts inner-city minority children. The Family Assessment of Initial Risk (FLAIR) intervention was tested in three primary care centers in the Bronx, New York. This article presents parents' focus group responses evaluating FLAIR.
November 1, 2009
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Journal Article
This article describes three interventions that successfully reduced racial/ethnic health care disparities in children: one increased breastfeeding in a Navajo community, one decreased behaviors that can transmit HIV in African-American girls, and one increased insurance rates in Latino children. Learnings and pitfalls from these studies are also described.
December 1, 2003
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Program Results Report
California Pacific Medical Center evaluated a program called the Identification and Early Intervention Program for At-Risk Seniors, which sought to identify high-risk seniors before a crisis arose that would have forced a hospital stay.
March 1, 2006
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Journal Article
The effect of medical interventions on the reduction of mental retardation (MR) in the United States between 1950 and 2000 was examined in the present study.
September 9, 2005
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Program Results Report
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center examined attitudes toward tobacco and alcohol products in very young children and their relationship to parental attitudes and behavior toward the same products.
January 28, 2003
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Program Results Report
In 1999-2001, the University of Utah Department of Psychology conducted the third round of data collection and analysis for the Young Parenthood Project.
March 14, 2003
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Program Results Report
Judith S. Palfrey, M.D., and a research team at Children's Hospital in Boston conducted a follow-up study of the long-term impact of the Brookline [Mass.] Early Education Project.
National Program
A model that improves the health and well-being of adolescents by using evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions in the early identification and treatment of adolescents and young adults with severe mental illness.
March 26, 2013
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Issue Brief
The treatment of mental illness is not well integrated into the U.S. health care system, despite the socioeconomic benefits.