Salud Tiene Sabor
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Restaurant owners voluntarily participate in a project to provide menu nutritional information—and influence healthier food choices.
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Bridging Research and Policy to Address Childhood Obesity Among Border Hispanics
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Research data presented at public meetings help policy-makers better understand issues related to childhood obesity.
Public Funding? Private Funding? No Matter the Source, Substance Abuse Treatment Centers Fall Short of Ideal Model
September 18, 2009 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the Center for Research on Behavioral Health and Human Services Delivery examined practices in 403 privately funded and 363 publicly funded substance abuse treatment centers.
For the Public's Health
April 11, 2012 | Issue Brief/Book
A three-part series of reports from the IOM providing guidance to public health leaders and other stakeholders to inform efforts to address the nation's health challenges.
RWJF Clinical Scholars at Forefront of Effort to Create Quality Measures that Will Improve Pediatric Care
June 20, 2011 | Story
Five of seven new AHRQ-funded Centers of Excellence to be led by Clinical Scholars alumni.
Investing in a Healthier Future
April 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Despite extravagant spending on clinical care, the United States lags behind global peers on measures of life expectancy and other health outcomes. Improving America's health will require paying attention to public health and its population-based prevention efforts, and remedying public health funding.
Designing Effective Healthcare Quality Improvement Training Programs
January 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Nursing leaders reported gains in quality improvement knowledge and the use of quality improvement tools after attending training programs.
Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention
May 8, 2012 | Report
Comprehensive strategies for addressing the nation's obesity epidemic with a call to action for leaders to accelerate and advance those strategies.
Measuring Success for Health Care Quality Improvement Interventions
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
In an effort to evaluate quality improvement (QI) programs, self-reported versus externally rated measures of QI success led to different results. This study suggests that, ideally, evaluations of QI efforts should use externally rated measures.
For the Public's Health Investing in a Healthier Future
April 10, 2012 | Report
Despite extravagant spending on clinical care, the United States lags behind global peers on measures of life expectancy and other health outcomes. Improving America's health will require paying attention to public health and its population-based prevention efforts, and remedying public health funding.