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November 13, 2009 | Program Result Report
BD was getting picked on at school because he stuttered. This sidebar tells how the Brotherhood Health Initiative helped put BD on the path toward growing social confidence and skills, which helped him make more friends both in and out of school.
November 13, 2009 | Program Result Report
This sidebar tells how project staff helped JJ begin to take responsibility for his life, be less disruptive at school, and earn money for the things he wanted through household chores and odd jobs for neighbors.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This article describes the development and validation of an instrument used to measure resources and support for self-management (RSSM) used in the survey component of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Diabetes Initiative evaluation.
February 1, 2013 | Journal Article
This study explored the distribution of decision aids—an important first step toward patient engagement, but one that cannot be equated with actual use of the aids.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Chronically depressed patients in primary practices are helped by a program that uses a care manager intervention and teaches self-management techniques.
May 15, 2013 | Story/Video
The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries. Executive director of FutureMed, Daniel Kraft, MD, discusses approaches to "escape velocity" in health care.
May 15, 2013 | Story/Video
The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries. danah boyd—social scientist and high priestess of Internet friendship—challenge our assumptions and discusses what this means for health.
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
The UCLA Family Commons is a new model of preventive mental health care that provides nonstigmatized, cost-effective education and coaching to help families with children from infancy to adolescence address common childhood issues.
July 24, 2006 | Program Result Report
The Corporacion de Servicios de Salud y Medicina Avanzada developed a chronic disease prevention and control project to reach into rural communities and help educate those with chronic illnesses manage their own care.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Baylor College of Medicine collected information on emergency department pediatric asthma visits and studied the impact of an intervention to educate ED pediatric asthma patients and parents in managing the disease.