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The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine examined the history of the desegregation of American health care, focusing on twentieth century developments that preceded Medicare's enactment.
March 1, 2002
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In 1996, the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University held the National Conference on Children and Society to assess the prospects for achieving universal health coverage for children in the United States.
March 1, 2002
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The Alpha Center for Health Planning, Inc., in Washington (now called the AcademyHealth), a nonprofit policy institute, offered technical assistance to states and facilities participating in a federal program designed to keep struggling rural hospitals open.
March 1, 2002
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Duke University supported four premedical students to work as summer interns in community-based health clinics across the country.
March 1, 2002
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The City of Baltimore Department of Health developed a plan for a comprehensive, financially sustainable, community-based health care delivery system that would eliminate barriers to access and focus on prevention in an underserved neighborhood.
March 1, 2002
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Between 1995 and 1997, the HMO Group, (now the Alliance of Community Health Plans), New Brunswick, N.J. worked to improve tobacco prevention and cessation activities at the Alliance's member health plans.
March 1, 2002
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The National Association of State Boards of Education studied the roles and responsibilities of public schools in addressing health and related social problems confronting today's children and youth.
March 1, 2002
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St. Peter's Medical Center, New Brunswick, N.J., set up a statewide training program to help drug and alcohol treatment providers develop nicotine treatment protocols.
March 1, 2002
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Starting in April 1998, Communities in Schools, a Virginia-based nonprofit stay-in-school network, sought to provide schoolchildren around the country with access to five key resources.
March 1, 2002
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The National Mental Illness Screening Project, in collaboration with National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, conducted the first National Alcohol Screening Day, which was held April 8, 1999.