Psychosocial Variables Associated with Body Composition and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Middle School Students
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Girls more than boys benefit psychosocially from cardiorespiratory fitness.
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Reflections on the Texas Youth Evaluation Project and Implications for the Future
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Kenneth Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., founder of the Cooper Institute, creator of the FITNESSGRAM® test battery, calls for quality physical education programs.
Texas Youth Fitness Study
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Large-scale fitness testing allows tracking of youth fitness and provides research data that may lead to improved physical education but it is not without its detractors.
The Last Piece of the Puzzle
May 1, 2009 | Report
Providing high-quality, affordable health coverage to all children through national health reform.
The Texas Youth Fitness Study
March 24, 2011 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the Cooper Institute in Dallas report there are small but consistently positive associations between fitness and academic achievement.
Developing a Blueprint for What Children and Families Need from Health Reform
October 8, 2010 | Program Result Report
In May 2009, researchers at the Center for Children and Families at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute produced a report providing a blueprint for what children and families need from health reform.
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Asthma Self-Management Support Comparing Clinic-Based Nurses and In-Home Community Health Workers
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Adding home health visits by community health workers for families already receiving in-clinic support from asthma nurses, gives their asthmatic children 24 more symptom-free days per year on average and also modestly improves quality of life for caregivers.
Meetings of Refugee Health Coordinators Create the Refugee Health Information Network
October 29, 2009 | Program Result Report
RWJF funded two meetings convened by the Center for Public Service Communications (CPSC), which led to the creation of the Refugee Health Information Network.
New Curriculum Teaches Health Care Faculty How to Work as a Team - And Show Others the Way
January 14, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Association of American Medical Colleges assembled a group of health care faculty to design a curriculum on interdisciplinary teamwork, so that faculty could effect curriculum changes across professional schools.
Farmworkers Trained as Health Promoters Sow the Seeds of Better Health Care
January 29, 2002 | Program Result Report
Community Health Care in Bridgeton, N.J., developed a program to train farmworkers in Cumberland County to become lay health promoters.