What's Next Health
May 15, 2013 | Feature
What's Next Health: Conversations with Pioneers features leading thinkers and visionaries helping us explore ideas and trends important to the future of health and health care.
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Introducing What’s Next Health: Conversations with Pioneers
May 15, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
We're pleased to introduce What’s Next Health: Conversations with Pioneers, a new series here at RWJF that explores the future of health and health care, asks the big questions, and looks to the cutting-edge for solutions.
A Learning Journey
May 7, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Khan Academy is convinced of the value of online content. Like a MOOC (massive open online course), the material it creates is free and available to anyone, anywhere. But that’s where the similarities end.
Do you know 911’s cousin, 811?
May 3, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Striking buried lines is a leading cause of pipeline-related death and injury. A call to 811 generates a visit from a local representative who will mark the location of underground lines, pipes and cables, so workers can dig safely.
Implications of Teen Birth for Overweight and Obesity in Adulthood
April 12, 2013 | Journal Article
This study examined whether women giving birth in their teen years are more prone to overweight/obese status later in life.
Whoa! Did You Feel That?
April 9, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Khan Academy is a free online educational platform that provides self-paced, mastery-based education, and is a launching pad for what will become a complete, free knowledge-base for health care education.
Whoa! Did You Feel That?
April 8, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Khan Academy, AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have launched a powerful collaboration with potentially significant implications for health care education.
Medical Education Community Collaborates with Khan Academy to Help Prepare Students for New MCAT® Exam
April 2, 2013 | News Release
The new collaboration would help provide free online resources to help students get ready.
Public Health Nurses Bringing Care to Libraries
April 2, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
In what many believe to be a first-of-its-kind program, Pima County libraries teamed up with the county Health Department to start a jointly-funded “library nurse program.”
Individual- Versus Group-Based Financial Incentives for Weight Loss
April 2, 2013 | Journal Article
This study examined two incentive designs—an individual—and a group-based design—promoting weight loss among 105 obese employees at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.