The United States spends more money per person on health care than any other advanced nation, yet our health outcomes lag behind. High-functioning health and health care systems—ones that are easy to navigate and work seamlessly together and with other critical systems, such as community and social services—are essential to achieving health equity and building a Culture of Health.
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Health Care Quality and Value
Providing the right health care at the right price, reducing disparities, and improving overall health outcomes.
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Increasing enrollment in quality, affordable health coverage across the United States.
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Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Advancing policies and systems aimed at preventing illness and increasing opportunity for better health for all.
Learn moreAt the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we believe that health and health care systems should center on the goals and needs of the people and communities they serve. We are working to ensure that these systems are more closely aligned to meet those needs, by supporting programs which are helping to:
- Track trends in health insurance markets to help policymakers make informed decisions about health care coverage;
- Ensure consumers are able to make informed decisions about their care, and foster conversations about the cost of care between clinicians and patients;
- Increase the ability of state Medicaid programs and health systems to improve health equity; and
- Enable and promote connections across health care, social service and public health systems to meet the needs of individuals and communities.
By working across sectors, we have the opportunity to create the kind of health system everyone in our nation deserves: one that couples care with compassion, rewards value over volume, and places health at the center of every aspect of life.
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Programs to cultivate, engage, and leverage leaders to work across sectors, professions, and disciplines to build a Culture of Health.
Helping communities reach their greatest health potential by improving the contexts in which residents live, learn, work, and play.
Programs to enable children, particularly those most vulnerable, to grow up physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively well.