The Commission was formed to investigate why Americans aren’t as healthy as they could be and to look outside the health care system for ways to improve health for all.
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March 29, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, the news media is covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation scholars, fellows and grantees. Here are some examples. Nurse.com and Becker’s Hospital Review report on the launch of the Robert Wood Johnson F ...
March 29, 2012 | News Release
Experts Believe Prevention in Middle School Matters.
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Children's Futures is a a 10-year RWJF initiative, developed a comprehensive, citywide program in Trenton, N.J. focusing on the critical time period of prenatal care to age three to ensure health and school readiness.
March 19, 2012 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the Benjamin Rose Institute conducted a controlled research study of a Partners in Dementia Care intervention to reduce the use and cost of health care services and improve psychosocial outcomes for veterans and their families.
December 11, 2008
James S. Marks, senior vice president and director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Group, delivered a keynote speech at the YMCA's Pioneering Healthier Communities meeting in Washington, D.C.
December 1, 2008 | Journal Article
When health improvements place the control of disease in human hands, social factors exert an influence on patterns of disease and death.
January 1, 2001 | Book
Health as an Equal Partner to Health Care.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
In 1999, the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, conducted a conference entitled, Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrial Nations: Social, Psychological, and Biological Pathways.
January 31, 2001 | Program Result Report
David R. Williams, PhD, MPH, professor of sociology at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, Mich., studied the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health.
November 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Investigators at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Mich., compared two health surveys released in the early 1990s to assess differences in use of preventive services (such as breast and cervical cancer screening), hospital admissions, and outpatient visits between residents of Ontario, Canada and those of the Midwestern and Northeastern United States.