"Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care: Lessons from a Study of Eleven States" - a new report from the Center for Health and Health Care Services - exposes barriers and opportunities for children's mental health under expansion of the Affordable Care Act.
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June 18, 2012 | Story
Do we really know the best way to test for Alzheimer's disease? A grantee's new research shows that there's more work to be done.
July 22, 2011 | Story
Persuading physicians to focus on social risk factors. As a Health & Society Scholar, Jutte studied the interaction of biological and social risk factors in early childhood, and their relationship to long-term health and educational outcomes.
July 23, 2009 | Story
James Prochaska, PhD, has been recognized (along with Innovator Carlo C. DiClemente) for his work illuminating how addicted people change in their interest and ability to achieve abstinence.
March 1, 2011 | Story
Research by RWJF Health & Society Scholar shows that fearful children are more vulnerable to the negative effects of growing up in "rough neighborhoods."
September 13, 2010 | Story
RWJF Physician Faculty Scholar finds that most states are not able to provide the recommended level of treatment for the growing number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
June 21, 2010 | Story
Aymin Delgado-Borrego finds that only 1 percent of children estimated to have HCV in Florida are receiving potentially life-saving medical treatment.
March 3, 2010 | Story
Scholar discovers cultural differences in early childhood care that can contribute to obesity as early as the first two years of life.
September 17, 2012 | Story
Forward Promise is an initiative to improve the health and success of middle- and high-school-aged young men of color
November 13, 2011 | Story
RWJF's Senior Scientist Instrumental in Development of the Childhood Obesity Modeling Network.
March 24, 2011 | Story
"Early in my medical training I started to realize that so many kids who were overweight or obese were obviously not getting enough physical activity, and it was disproportionally affecting minority kids," Mendoza recalls.