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October 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Elementary school-age children in the Mississippi Delta have a troubling distinction: a large percentage of them are overweight or obese, based on body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and waist-to-height ratios. Assessing the impact of health policies, this study suggests, requires consistent measures of multiple weight-related outcomes, including BMI and waist-to-height ratio.
July 29, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium led two outreach trips of local and national dental leaders and professionals to educate them about the use of dental health aide therapists to provide dental care to rural Alaska residents.
January 4, 2011 | Issue Brief
Under its Advancing Public Health Policy and Practice solicitation, RWJF funded 16 projects and the Center for Creative Leadership produced Knowledge Assets that synthesize the work and learnings from these projects.
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: Tulare Count, Calif., residents monitored the air at homes situated near orange groves where the pesticide chlorpyrifos had been used. In addition, urine samples from 34 participants were analyzed for chlorpyrifos metabolite.
May 28, 2010 | Program Result Report
Health e-Technologies supported research to evaluate the effectiveness of technological applications in improving health behaviors and chronic disease management and in enhancing patient-provider interactions.
August 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The Center of Excellence in Rural and Minority Health, a project of Voorhees College, taught seniors from three rural and impoverished counties how to use computers and access health information databases.
October 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
In 1998, Freedom from Hunger, a California-based organization that addresses issues of hunger and poor nutrition, began the replication and institutionalization of a program to train lay health advisors in several Southern states.
December 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
A faith-based organization in Charlotte, N.C. recruited and trained members of congregations to help HIV/AIDS patients living in African-American and rural white communities in a 13-county area of the Carolinas.
October 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Faculty in the Department of Nursing at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., trained cosmetologists and others to deliver community-based health education and screening services.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
From 2000 to 2001, the Foundation for Island Health developed a business plan and continued work toward a pilot community-based health care system on Martha's Vineyard.