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Connecting Hospitalized Patients One-on-One with Other Patients Who Have the Same Illness

May 11, 2009 | Program Result Report

From 1994 to 2007, staff at Friends' Health Connection (originally called Long Distance Love), New Brunswick, N.J., created and ran a program that enables hospitalized patients to communicate one-on-one with another patient who has the same illness.

Stopping Teen Dating Violence in New Jersey with Safe Dates

June 20, 2012 | Program Result Report

From 2008 to 2011, eight projects implemented Safe Dates, a dating abuse prevention program, in middle and high schools through New Jersey Health Initiatives, which supports projects that improve the health and health care of state residents.

Addressing Mental Illness in the Bible Belt

November 18, 2009 | Program Result Report

Tanya Ott, a traditional public radio station journalist, and Connie Kohler, Dr.P.H., a professor who produces radio soap operas for an African-American audience, teamed up to take on the stigma and social cost of mental illness in the Bible Belt state of Alabama.

Television Series Highlights the Plight of Frail Elders

November 18, 2009 | Program Result Report

New Hampshire Public Television (NHPTV) built on the awareness of an audience drawn to a previous NHPTV project, the 2004 broadcast of a program called "The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's," and its related outreach throughout the state.

Fresh Ideas: Improving the Health of Immigrant and Refugee Communities

June 13, 2013 | Program Result Report

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.

Improving Patient Decision-Making in Health Care

February 24, 2011 | Report

The report compares the rates of elective, or "preference-sensitive," procedures across regions and suggests that differences in clinicians' personal beliefs and opinions contribute to the variation.

Sound Partners for Community Health

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To support radio stations that demonstrate how community-centered journalism can address local health care issues.

Injury Free Coalition for Kids: Dissemination of a Model Injury Prevention Program for Children and Adolescents

National Program

To reduce and prevent injuries to children through a hospital-based, research-driven model implemented in partnership with coalitions of community stakeholders.

Allies Against Asthma: A Program to Combine Clinical and Public Health Approaches to Chronic Illness

National Program

To support community-based coalitions aimed at improving efforts to control pediatric asthma.

Prenatal Care Referrals Help Address North Philadelphia's High Infant Mortality

April 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

Starting in October 1995, Temple University Hospital expanded a pilot program to address infant mortality in North Philadelphia and provide a full range of primary care and preventive services.

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