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September 1, 2006 | Journal Article
More than 2 million women are injured by domestic violence and 500,000 require medical treatment annually, yet only 10 percent of primary care physicians routinely screen for domestic violence. The authors of this study examine whether resident phys ...
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Health interventions that are long-term and place-based are embraced as providing low-income families with comprehensive services. To better understand the benefits from these services, this study assesses the role of residential mobility and the us ...
May 16, 2012 | Program Result
Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing is an online, worldwide competition sponsored by Ashoka Innovators for the Public. It sought and rewarded solutions that move promote understanding of and involvement with mental health issues.
May 8, 2009 | Evaluation
This evaluation aims to develop a menu of promising practices that are of use to the Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships initiative's 10 sites and provide findings that can inform different audiences of the initiatives' outcomes.
December 1, 2007 | Program Result
The National Center for State Courts helped to organize an educational program on using a comprehensive problem-solving approach to address substance abuse, domestic violence, mental health and other complex and difficult issues in court.
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Despite national prosperity which improved health outcomes for urban children from 1992-2002, disparities between children in distressed versus non-distressed cities, and between Black versus White urban children, did not improve.
June 27, 2011 | Program Result
Fresh Ideas was a targeted solicitation for proposals that aimed to give immigrants and refugees the tools and support they need to improve and maintain their own health.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article looks specifically at the design of the Urban Health Initiative evaluation. It highlights the program's integrated evaluation design, bringing together a theory of change and a quasi-experimental approach, including comparison city usage.
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This paper looks at the issues of obesity, race and gender, and determines whether school environment influences body mass index (BMI) and whether the racial and gender context one grows up in may also end up affecting BMI.
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the trade-offs between the city-level and neighborhood-based approaches, looking at the Urban Health Initiative aimed at improving the health and safety of children, as a specific case study.