Childhood Obesity Program Area
RWJF is committed to tackling one of the most urgent threats to the health of our children and families—childhood obesity. Our goal is to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
Nurses
Nursing's bond to patients and link to quality of care are pivotal, as nurses make up more that half of the health care workforce. To improve the quality of hospital care, we must also transform the quality of nursing care at the patient's bedside.
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'The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Motivates Me'
June 28, 2012 | Story
Shelia Spurlock-White has developed a prep course for licensed practical nurses in the hope that better educated LPNs will lead to better elder care. RWJF, she says, inspires her in this mission.
Forty-Two Years of Improving Health and Health Care for Mothers, Infants and Families through Nurse-Midwifery
June 28, 2012 | Story
Ruth Watson Lubic recalls the Foundation's early history in the field of nurse-midwifery, and an old trail-blazing friend.
How School Nurses and School-Based Health Centers Can Help Prevent Childhood Obesity
August 25, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools prepared an issue brief, held an invitational roundtable meeting and produced a report recommending ways to involve school-based health professionals in efforts to reduce obesity among children.
Management of Child and Adolescent Obesity
July 1, 2002 | Journal Article
Psychological, Emotional, and Behavioral Assessment
Survey Finds Barriers to Treating Childhood Obesity; July 2002 Issue of Pediatrics Publishes Results
September 5, 2008 | Program Result Report
The International Life Sciences Institute Center for Health Promotion published six papers on data from a survey of health care practitioners regarding the assessment and treatment of childhood obesity in a July 2002 special supplement to Pediatrics.