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February 6, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: You conducted interviews with hundreds of people across the country who live alone. Tell us about the trends you identified in the book. Klinenberg: When I looked more closely at the issue I learned that living alone had become incredibly commo ...
December 1, 2003 | Program Result
Experts from the social, behavioral, physiological and medical sciences developed a plan to study how the extent to which people are socially connected (that is, have relationships with others) affects their physical health.
August 1, 2005 | Program Result
Washington State University School of Public Health planned and implemented an intervention to link families in faith-based congregations in Spokane, Wash., to isolated single-parent families in their communities.
December 31, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
A Doctor Delivers Multiple Acts of Human Kindness to Homeless Women. “She was just one more homeless woman who had been raped, a ‘nobody,’ just more paperwork,” blogged RWJF Community Health Leader Roseanne H. Means, MD, explaining why a woman in he ...
June 14, 2012 | Journal Article
The study's results shows social discrimination can be a chronic stressor, with a detrimental impact on physiological systems over time.
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Kathi Toepel with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
June 13, 2012 | Story
New evidence suggests discrimination is an important social determinant of health among White Americans.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Being culturally interconnected with others can be beneficial to a pregnant woman’s health and well-being.
April 18, 2011 | Story
LGB youth are 20 percent more likely to attempt suicide in a negative social environment than in a positive one, regardless of their individual risk factors, concludes study by RWJF Health & Society Scholar.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
After her mother is diagnosed with gallbladder cancer, a journalist researches how to help find effective therapies for patients who get rare diseases.