What's Next Health: Daniel Kraft
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.
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What's Next Health: danah boyd
May 15, 2013 | Story/Video
The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries. danah boyd—social scientist and high priestess of Internet friendship—challenge our assumptions and discusses what this means for health.
Locating Family Mental Health Services in Shopping Malls and Schools
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
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.
Heart Failure Education Reduces Readmissions
February 26, 2013
Oregon Health and Science University cut readmissions for heart failure patients by 11 percent over an 18-month period through improved patient education.
An Effort to Spread Decision Aids In Five California Primary Care Practices Yielded Low Distribution, Highlighting Hurdles
February 1, 2013 | Journal Article
This study explored the distribution of decision aids—an important first step toward patient engagement, but one that cannot be equated with actual use of the aids.
Diffusion of a Model for Addressing Behavioral Health Issues in Primary Care Practices
December 5, 2012 | Program Result
Prescription for Health developed innovative models to integrate counseling for tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and excessive alcohol consumption into primary care. These models spread and became integrated into the national health care system after RWJF's funding ended.
Diabetes Initiative
December 1, 2012 | Report
This program was a 30-month, multi-site initiative to improve diabetes self-management and to determine whether self-management principles could be implemented effectively in real-world settings.
A Digital Guide for Self-Tracking Goes Online
August 22, 2012 | Program Result
Project builds online self-tracking guide to advance health and research potential of observations of daily living.
Motivating Effects of Cooperative Exergame Play for Overweight and Obese Adolescents
July 23, 2012 | Journal Article
Physical activity programs for overweight and obese teenagers often fail due to low motivation and retention.
Neuropsychological Benefits of Stationary Bike Exercise and a Cybercycle Exergame for Older Adults with Diabetes
July 23, 2012 | Journal Article
Diabetes, which has been linked to increased risk for dementia and many other health problems, is becoming increasingly common. Exercise has been found to sustain or improve cognitive function in older adults, but only a small percentage of older ad ...