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April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The reliance on discretionary spending for American Indian/Alaska Native health care has produced a system that is insufficient and unreliable and is associated with ongoing health disparities. Moreover, the gap between mandatory spending on a Medic ...
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors examined social risk factors (poverty, minority race/ethnicity, low parental education and not living with both biological parents) to assess whether an accretion of risk factors had a cumulative effect on child health. They also investi ...
May 24, 2006 | Journal Article
The current study investigated whether disparity based on poverty status has increased in the adolescent overweight population over time. The impact of behaviors such as physical activity on adolescent overweight disparities was also explored. Data ...
June 1, 2006 | Journal Article
This article, the introduction to a supplement of the journal Academic Medicine, focuses on eight partnerships of the Health Professions Partnerships Initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Six schools of medicine and two schools of public health were invited to write case studies addressing the challenges, barriers and solutions to producing 'pipeline' partnerships with a variety of educational institutions.
January 1, 2003 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology examines the Foundation's investments in building capacity among social scientists to do health policy analysis.