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Two senior women with glasses sitting together at a table.

Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 

HEALTH SYSTEMS

There's far more to health than what happens in the doctor's office. Across the nation, RWJF supports programs which help communities to identify critical gaps in healthcare, and advance policy and system changes aimed at preventing illness and increasing opportunity for better health for all.

Related News and Insights

Read expert perspectives and the latest research from RWJF to explore the opportunities and complexities of this topic.

Tool Resource
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Learning from the World to Improve Health and Wellbeing: A Roadmap for Planning International Learni...

An interactive roadmap lays out six simple steps with practical ideas, worksheets, and tips to help you learn with communities around the world.

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Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Global Learning
Brief
A doctor examines a teenage patient, her mother sits in the background, Hidalgo Medical Services-Bayard Community Health Center, Bayard, New Mexico. Project ECHO.

Free Preventive Services Improve Access to Care

Access to preventive services like cancer screenings, vaccinations, and contraception plays a key role in advancing public health.

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Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Report
RWJF Culture of Health Prize 2019 - Gonzales, CA.
Gilberto Arreloa (dad) with daughters Jaylah (4) and Christina Arreola (2).

Findings from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Perspectives on Families in America Survey

A survey resulted in a typology to discover the pattern of values and beliefs related to addressing resource problems regarding low incomes, lack of access to affordable and healthy food, and lack of access to child care and preschool programs.

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Health Disparities
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Featured Initiatives

RWJF funds many initiatives in support of our vision for a Culture of Health. For this focus area, these initiatives were selected to demonstrate grantmaking that is helping us achieve the greatest impact.

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County Health Rankings and Roadmaps

This national program highlights the many social and economic factors that influence health and shows how health is influenced by where we live, learn, work and play. The program also offers tools to understand the data and strategies that communities can use to move from education to action.

Family doctor examining throat of a small black boy while visiting him at home during coronavirus pandemic.

National Health Security Preparedness Index (NHSPI)

Is our nation and its people prepared for, protected from, and resilient in the face of health threats or incidents with potentially negative health consequences? The NHSPI helps prepare us with relevant and actionable information.

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The Build Health Challenge

The Build Health Challenge works to strengthen partnerships among community leaders, hospitals, health systems and local health departments to improve community health.

Current Grant Opportunities

We realize that building a Culture of Health will take unprecedented collaboration and a deeper understanding of where barriers exist and how to overcome them.

We have previously funded opportunities in this area of focus with the goal to strengthen and advance health equity, and we have more work to do.

A nurse takes a patient's blood pressure during a medical home visit.

Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity

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A nurse takes a patient's blood pressure during a medical home visit.

Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future

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