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March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Uneven distribution of primary care physicians, as well as inadequate use of mid-level providers - physicians' assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives - creates barriers to access for many rural and inner city residents.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1999, researchers with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School assessed the long-term efficacy and benefit-cost of a brief intervention for problem drinkers.
December 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
The Independent Production Fund completed the preproduction phase of a multimedia training package for Healthy Steps for Young Children, a new approach to pediatric care that focuses on the first three years of life.
January 11, 2012 | Program Result Report
The Louisiana Public Health Institute supported a learning collaborative, comprised of 81 clinics, aimed at integrating behavioral and primary health care in metro New Orleans, after the city's health care system was decimated by Hurricane Katrina.
April 18, 2011 | Program Result Report
The Program of Research to Integrate Substance Use Information into Mainstream Health Care (PRISM) advanced the evidence about the effects of alcohol and opioid use on the care physicians provided to patients with common chronic illnesses.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Pennsylvania's Practice Sights program goals included improving recruitment and retention efforts, encouraging greater use of mid-level providers, and establishing new practice sites in underserved areas.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The Idaho Area Health Education Center served as the lead agency in a project to establish a community-development approach to the recruitment and retention of health care providers in its rural areas.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The South Dakota Department of Health addressed the decline in the number of its rural practice sites by creating four Regional Coordinated Care Networks to promote primary care linkages in underserved areas.
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
PRISM sought to encourage physicians and health care researchers to address the effects of alcohol and drug abuse on serious chronic illnesses.
January 1, 2003 | Book
In this chapter, Irene Wielawski, an award-winning journalist, the evaluator of the Foundation's Reach Out program, and a frequent contributor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series, examines this ambitious 10-state effort.