March 25, 2013
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Program Result Report
Researchers at the Hilltop Institute evaluated the implementation of Maryland’s tax-based outreach initiative, the Kids First Act, and how well the state achieved its goal of identifying and enrolling uninsured children eligible for Medicaid or CHIP.
March 25, 2013
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Program Result Report
Researchers at Innosight Institute conducted case studies of seven integrated health systems to find out how their staffs thought, acted, and innovated and to identify ways that other health systems could deliver better care at a lower cost.
March 25, 2013
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Program Result Report
From 2007 to 2011, the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) established itself as a national resource center for addiction treatment providers, sustaining the work of two previous RWJF national programs.
March 25, 2013
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Program Result Report
The UCLA Family Commons is a new model of preventive mental health care that provides nonstigmatized, cost-effective education and coaching to help families with children from infancy to adolescence address common childhood issues.
March 25, 2013
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Program Result Report
Researchers at McKinsey & Co. explored the potential of social impact bonds as a pay-for-performance means to finance the expansion of proven social service programs. Their study focused on two areas: homelessness and prisoner recidivism.
March 25, 2013
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Program Result Report
Developing and promoting a rapid-learning health system, in which health information in large databases is analyzed to improve health care - the work of Lynn Etheredge and the Health Insurance Reform Project at George Washington University.
March 25, 2013
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Program Result Report
From 2008 to 2012, Health Care Without Harm worked to embed best practices for environmental sustainability into health care and to create a business plan for Practice Greenhealth, which has hospital and business members.
March 25, 2013
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Program Result Report
State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) supports rigorous research on health reform initiatives and evaluation of health reform issues.
March 14, 2013
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Program Result Report
Researchers studied public health policies in New York City and elsewhere, including bans on transfats, limits on exhaust emissions, and taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, to determine how best to move such policies through the political process.
March 14, 2013
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Program Result Report
The California Center for Public Health Advocacy studied data on childhood obesity in the state to determine whether incidence of the condition had declined from 2005 to 2010, and whether any decline could be attributed to changes in policy.