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April 17, 2007 | Program Result
Cover the Uninsured Week, March 10-16, 2003, focused national media attention on the coverage problem and featured hundreds of town meetings, health fairs and other public events in communities across the nation.
April 11, 2012 | Program Result
The Healthy Students, Healthy Minds project of Padres Unidos is working with Denver school board officials to implement a recess-before-lunch policy in all public schools, a schedule that gets kids to eat better and reduces discipline problems.
April 11, 2012 | Program Result
Communities Creating Healthy Environments aims to curb childhood obesity in communities of color by using community organizing for social justice to advocate for policy changes color. Read this report on its progress.
August 1, 2009 | Report
Strong investments in biking and walking infrastructure can boost physical activity and help reduce obesity rates, yet such investment varies by region.
October 22, 2010 | Program Result
Researchers from the University of California, Davis, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences analyzed spending of federal funds for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure across metropolitan regions nationwide and conducted case studies.
May 18, 2010 | Program Result
Developing an accreditation system to encourage public health departments to measure their performance against national standards.
August 1, 2004 | Program Result
From 2002 to 2003, staff from the New England Asthma Regional Council developed both new programming and a fundraising plan to address environmental causes of asthma.
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Delta Health Education Partnership developed a distance-education degree program for nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife and physician assistant students in the federally designated Medically Underserved Area of the lower Mississippi Delta.
October 15, 2004 | Program Result
From 1996 to 2002, a consortium of California health care leaders collected and analyzed state nursing workforce data and promoted initiatives to strengthen the state's nursing education system and nursing corps.