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| Nov 17, 2009 |
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launches Commission to Look Beyond Medical Care System to Improve the Health of All Americans
Foundation issues new report which finds poor, minority and middle-class Americans with less education live sicker and die younger; new opinion poll finds strong public support for action. |
| Nov 14, 2009 |
"Better Ways to Pay for Health Care" Recommended by
National Health Care Quality Coalition
This report provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the problems with current health care payment systems, and describes alternative payment systems that will address these problems. It demonstrates that rationing and price controls are not the only ways to... |
| Nov 12, 2009 |
Alcohol Industry's Marketing Overexposes Hispanic Teens
Hispanic youth ages 12 to 20 often saw and heard more alcohol advertising per capita during 2003 and 2004 than young people in their age group in general, according to a new report released today from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at Georgetown... |
| Nov 5, 2009 |
Health Insurers Pursue Growth Potential of Individual Market
Insurers are pursuing strategies to tap the growth potential of the individual health insurance market, including entering less-regulated markets and developing lower-cost, less-comprehensive products targeting younger, healthy consumers, according to a study... |
| Nov 4, 2009 |
Nine Leading Research Teams Selected to Study How Digital Games Improve Players' Health
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today announced more than $1.85 million in grants for research that will offer unprecedented insight into how digital games can improve players’ health behaviors and outcomes. With funding from RWJF’s Health... |
| Oct 29, 2009 |
National Summit on Workable Solutions to Long Term Care Challenges
Webcast: Ed Howard moderates a discussion about the issues facing older adults and how community partnerships are working to identify, prioritize, and implement workable solutions to long term care problems. |
| Oct 28, 2009 |
Special Issue of Medical Journal Explores
Latino Health and Health Care
New facts uncovered to advance health care systems and policy for U.S. Latinos. |
| Oct 28, 2009 |
Study Shows Overwhelming Parent Support for Healthier Schools
Survey for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation finds most parents willing to help schools improve food offerings and increase physical activity. |