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Program Raises Pediatricians' Consciousness about Kids and Guns
May 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, Ill., developed and oversaw the Firearm Injury Prevention Training Project to provide pediatricians with the skills and the resources necessary to reduce firearm injuries and deaths among children.
Organizations of Health Professionals Distribute a Blueprint to Reduce Smoking
June 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention developed strategies for dissemination of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research's Clinical Practice Guideline on Smoking Cessation to health care providers.
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.
More Research is Needed on Preventing and Treating TB in Children
October 1, 1997 | Program Result Report
A three-day scientific workshop on tuberculosis in children, co-sponsored with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and 15 other government agencies and private health groups, was held in Atlanta, Ga., on August 1-3, 1994.
For Teen Smokers, Supportive vs. In-Your-Face Advice to Quit Yields Same Results
April 1, 2008 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Providence, R.I., carried out a pilot study to examine the efficacy of a motivational interviewing intervention for adolescent smokers.
All Kids Count
March 29, 2007 | Program Result Report
The All Kids Count II program sought to make 16 immunization registry projects based in local, county, and state health departments fully operational by January 1, 2000.
Planning a Web-Based Immunization Registry for Rhode Island
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Rhode Island's KIDSNET wanted its registry to meet the needs of Rhode Island's private providers its success depended on it, since nearly 100 percent of immunizations in the state are given by private sector providers.
Baltimore Immunization Registry Campaigns to Enroll Providers
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The registry launched an intensive recruitment campaign involving the majority of immunization department staff, with the goal of having all enrolled by end of 1998.
Getting an Immunization Registry Up and Running After Its Software Vendor Goes Bankrupt in Nevada
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Immunization registries don't constitute a large or profitable market for private vendors of registry software and in 1998, only a dozen or so registry software vendors served all the registries in the country.
Connecticut Immunization Registry Focuses on Quality, Not Expansion
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Some health agencies develop their own immunization registry system, while others purchase software from vendors. Neither choice is necessarily the right one - both can be fraught with difficulties, delays, and cost overruns.