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October 12, 2010 | Video/Story
Clare County, Michigan, ranked last in its state in this nationwide assessment. Here's how local officials developed the tools and information to help improve the health of county citizens.
February 1, 2005 | Evaluation
This memo examines site visit respondents' perceptions about access to care among those covered by Medicaid and SCHIP as well as the uninsured in the 10 sample states, and identifies some of the barriers to access that members of these groups experience.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article summarizes accountability, performance metrics, and reward systems in education for possible use in health care.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A community partnership in Nashville, TN, has succeeded in making physical activity part of daily life in large part because the group is led by the metro area's planning department and has enjoyed sustained political support through two mayoral administrations.
January 1, 2003 | Report
The United States spends $450 billion per year on hospital care, but there is very little public information available on hospital quality. Recent efforts to expand quality measurement and reporting have increased, but this raises concerns related t ...
June 1, 2010 | Evaluation
The evaluation of Covering Kids & Families� (CKF) found that broad-based cooperation on policy and procedural change?among advocacy groups, providers, state Medicaid and CHIP officials and other stakeholders? can be achieved and that such cooperation can be fundamental to increasing insurance coverage among children.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Implementing the Active Living by Design (ALbD) community action model, a community partnership in Omaha has successfully moved in five years from establishing community awareness of active living to implementing large-scale policy and infrastructure change, according to an article by a team from state and local health and education agencies.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This commentary explores how Active Living by Design (ALbD), a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has evolved from a five-year individual grant program into a nationally recognized service organization with multiple clients and the capacity and expertise to address active living and healthy eating systems, policies and environmental change initiatives.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The Active Living by Design (ALbD) program envisioned a change model built around the 5Ps—preparation, partnership, programming, promotions and policy. This commentary examines how another "P"—politics—has been essential to attaining the goal of promoting physical activity through changes to the built environment.
December 1, 2009 | Commentary
This commentary argues that a multidisciplinary approach is an essential ingredient for achieving community change and vitality. Because active living is not a central issue of any one discipline, public health must influence other disciplines to integrate active living within the context of their respective missions.