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NewPublicHealth on Location: Austin, Texas
September 14, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The first graders are split into two groups once they arrive at the Y, with half going to the water with their safety instructors for 45 minutes, and the other half headed to physical activities in the gym and on the ground. That physical activity a ...
How to Revitalize Poor Neighborhoods
April 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Roundtable on Initiatives for Children, Families and Communities continued to conduct in-depth research and analyses in selected areas that represent underlying or ongoing challenges to comprehensive community initiatives.
More Wasteland Than Promised Land, But Educational TV for Kids Survives Neglect
October 1, 2000 | Program Result
Starting in January 1997, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D. at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, conducted research on educational television programming for children and developed a pilot program based on that research.
Developing Child Immunizations Registries
January 1, 1997 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology reviews a national program supported by the Foundation and other funders to use computer technology to design vaccination registries that facilitate the monitoring of childhood immunizations and allow outreach workers to get in touch with the families of children needing vaccinations.