January 1, 1998
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Program Result
Battelle Memorial Institute carried out 10 in-depth ethnographic studies that supplemented a study of vendor compliance with laws restricting minors' access to tobacco conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Office on Smoking and Health.
January 1, 1998
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Program Result
Boston University School of Medicine surveyed nearly 2,000 faculty at 24 medical schools about the academic advancement of women, minority, and generalist faculty in medical school departments, compared to that of male, majority, and specialty faculty.
January 1, 1998
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Program Result
From 1995 to 1996, the New York Academy of Medicine, New York, established he Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies.
December 31, 1997
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Book/Issue Brief
To Improve Health and Health Care, 1998-1999
The Robert Wood Johnson Anthology
December 1, 1997
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Program Result
From 1991 to 1994, researchers from Brown University Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research examined factors affecting the quality of health care in board and care homes.
December 1, 1997
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Program Result
United Seniors Health Cooperative established the Cooperative Care Network (CCN), a computerized service credit bank in the greater Washington area, to increase the availability of services for the elderly and the disabled living in their homes.
November 1, 1997
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Program Result
The Lewin Group, a health care and social services consulting firm based in Falls Church, Va., took a snapshot of the state of the health care safety net in four urban areas: Dallas, Los Angeles, Memphis, and New York City.
October 1, 1997
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Program Result
Old Disease, New Challenge: Tuberculosis in the 1990s was a national program of RWJF to develop and evaluate innovative ways of augmenting and assisting public health systems in providing comprehensive tuberculosis (TB) activities.
October 1, 1997
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Program Result
From 1994 to 1997, staff at The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, developed a tuberculosis (TB) screening and prevention program by linking health care resources aimed at the control of tuberculosis, with community-based resources for under-served populations in Baltimore City.
October 1, 1997
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Program Result
What can a school do when a child isn't getting needed medical treatments? Thanks to the Seattle Child Health Initiative, elementary schools in two areas are not only identifying problems such as this, but taking action to help.