County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
October 1, 2012 | Book
This chapter in Volume XV of To Improve Health and Health Care, explores a new and important source of data, the County Health Rankings.
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The Substance Abuse Policy Research Program
January 1, 2011 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, leaders of the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program look back at the program, which ended in 2009, and reflect on how the program operated and on what its policy research on tobacco, alcohol, and drugs accomplished.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Efforts to Combat Drug Addiction
January 1, 2010 | Book
James Bornemeier, a New York City-based writing and editing consultant and former journalist for the Los Angeles Times and Philadelphia Inquirer, presents the broad history of the Foundation's efforts to address addiction to drugs (as distinct from addiction to alcohol) in this chapter of the Anthology.
The SmokeLess States Program
January 1, 2005 | Book
This chapter describes SmokeLess States: National Tobacco Policy Initiative, one of the largest investments made by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with $99 million authorized in grants since 1992.
The Center for Tobacco-Free Kids and the Tobacco-Settlement Negotiations
January 1, 2003 | Book
The Center for Tobacco-Free Kids was created in 1995 to develop and promote a national strategy to reduce smoking by young people and to be a focal point for communicating with the media.
Tuberculosis
January 1, 2002 | Book
This article looks at RWJF's development of a national program Old Disease, New Challenge, as well as several single site initiatives, and its involvement in trying to contain the spread of tuberculosis and lessons learned.
Partnership Among National Foundations
January 1, 2001 | Book
Between Rhetoric and Reality
Linking Biomedical and Behavioral Research for Tobacco Use Prevention
January 1, 2000 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology discusses the insights and approaches that emerged from a 1997 conference in Sundance, Utah, around the use of tobacco among young people.
The National Spit Tobacco Education Program
January 1, 1999 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology, written by Leonard Koppett, a baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter, chronicles how Joe Garagiola led an effort that changed the way Major League Baseball viewed and responded to the problems of spit tobacco.
Developing Child Immunizations Registries
January 1, 1997 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology reviews a national program supported by the Foundation and other funders to use computer technology to design vaccination registries that facilitate the monitoring of childhood immunizations and allow outreach workers to get in touch with the families of children needing vaccinations.