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January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Improving the health of children from low-income families is the top recommended priority of the Commission to Build a Healthier America. This article reviews child health and development research from the past 20 years.
May 2, 2013 | Story
Former RWJF Scholar Dalton Conley, PhD, brings sociology, economics, and genomics to bear in research on the determinants of economic opportunity.
April 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
The Coverage Ideas from the Field call for proposals sought projects to increase the likelihood that the nation's health care debate would lead to solutions and build momentum to drive federal policy-makers to act.
January 1, 2008 | Journal Article
A study examining the relationship between maternal depression and management of asthma health care utilization for children found a reduction in asthma spending for children whose mothers were treated for depression.
March 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This study sets out to discover how individual life events, and in particular poor health of the head of a family, affect children's exposure to deprivation, and if families with certain traits such as single parent household are more influenced than others.
February 1, 2006 | Journal Article
This study followed 518,240 elderly couples enrolled in Medicare in 1993 for nine years to determine whether there was an association between hospitalization of a spouse and a partner's risk of death. The "bereavement effect"—referring to the increa ...
December 16, 2011 | Program Result Report
RWJF published monthly snapshots of how confident adults feel about their financial access to health care, based on data collected by the University of Michigan Survey Research Center and analyzed by the State Health Access Data Assistance Center.
August 10, 2011 | Story
For families that struggle to meet basic needs like adequate food or housing, clinical care is only part of the solution.
August 4, 2011 | Program Result Report
Faith-based Advocacy: Galvanizing Communities to End Childhood Obesity asked faith-based coalitions for proposals to advance community policies or environmental changes that improve access to healthy foods and/or opportunities for physical activity
May 31, 2011 | Program Result Report
During the 2009-10 debate over health care reform, the PICO National Network conducted the Faith and Family Voices for Health Reform Project which provided resources and training to clergy and faith leaders seeking to participate in the debate.