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January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Improving the health of children from low-income families is the top recommended priority of the Commission to Build a Healthier America. This article reviews child health and development research from the past 20 years.
February 1, 2006 | Journal Article
This study followed 518,240 elderly couples enrolled in Medicare in 1993 for nine years to determine whether there was an association between hospitalization of a spouse and a partner's risk of death. The "bereavement effect"—referring to the increa ...
January 1, 2008 | Journal Article
A study examining the relationship between maternal depression and management of asthma health care utilization for children found a reduction in asthma spending for children whose mothers were treated for depression.
March 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This study sets out to discover how individual life events, and in particular poor health of the head of a family, affect children's exposure to deprivation, and if families with certain traits such as single parent household are more influenced than others.
May 2, 2013 | Story
Former RWJF Scholar Dalton Conley, PhD, brings sociology, economics, and genomics to bear in research on the determinants of economic opportunity.
April 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
The Coverage Ideas from the Field call for proposals sought projects to increase the likelihood that the nation's health care debate would lead to solutions and build momentum to drive federal policy-makers to act.
April 1, 2011 | Report
Americans' confidence in their ability to afford future care and maintain health coverage fell slightly in March 2011.
March 1, 2011 | Report
Americans' confidence in their ability to afford future care and maintain health coverage fell slightly in February 2011.
February 1, 2011 | Report
Americans' confidence in their health care largely stable over past year.
September 1, 2010 | Survey/Poll
Americans’ confidence in their ability to afford future care and maintain coverage ticked upwards in August.