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June 14, 2013 | Program Result Report
Urban Health Initiative: Working to Ensure the Health and Safety of Children was a 10-year, $63 million program to improve community-wide outcomes for children in five cities: Baltimore; Detroit; Oakland, Calif.; Philadelphia; and Richmond, Va.
June 13, 2013 | Program Result Report
Fresh Ideas was a targeted solicitation for proposals that aimed to give immigrants and refugees the tools and support they need to improve and maintain their own health.
May 29, 2013 | Program Result Report
From 2010 to 2013, Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration (SPARC) worked with public health groups and design firms to plan 5over50, which will seek to spur older adults to tap five key preventive health services.
May 23, 2013 | Report
Recommendations for strengthening and improving physical activity and physical education programs in schools are presented in this IOM report.
May 15, 2013 | Story/Video
The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries. Executive director of FutureMed, Daniel Kraft, MD, discusses approaches to "escape velocity" in health care.
May 1, 2013 | Story
As a Health & Society Scholar, Wizdom Powell Hammond, PhD, MPH, MS, studied psychosocial factors and attitudes among African American men and how these affected their use of health care and trust in the medical system.
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.
March 28, 2013 | Presentation Material
Agenda and meeting materials made available at the Early Intervention in Mental Health Meeting, held in Washington, D.C. on March 28, 2013.
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
The UCLA Family Commons is a new model of preventive mental health care that provides nonstigmatized, cost-effective education and coaching to help families with children from infancy to adolescence address common childhood issues.
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
Researchers at McKinsey & Co. explored the potential of social impact bonds as a pay-for-performance means to finance the expansion of proven social service programs. Their study focused on two areas: homelessness and prisoner recidivism.