The Commission was formed to investigate why Americans aren’t as healthy as they could be and to look outside the health care system for ways to improve health for all.
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June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
This brief outlines the rationale for states to consider designing Medicaid-financed, supportive housing-based care management services to improve care for at-risk beneficiaries while lowering costs associated with avoidable hospitalizations and other crisis services.
June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Supportive housing can help increase survival rates, reduce inpatient utilization, foster mental health recovery, and reduce alcohol and drug use among formerly homeless individuals.
May 17, 2012 | Program Result Report
Staff at South Carolina's Palmetto Project trained volunteers in Black churches to check blood pressure of church members and provide them with nutrition information, including ways to reduce sodium intake.
May 14, 2012 | Story
Program Officer Maisha Simmons shares lessons learned from the Forward Promise Call for Ideas, and the framework for RWJF's Forward Promise Call for Proposals.
April 1, 2009 | Commentary
Serving as an introduction to a special issue of Health Promotion Practice featuring reports on community interventions, this article by James S. Marks, M.D., M.P.H., senior vice president and director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Group, serves as a public health call-to-action.
April 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article presents conclusions drawn from a work group to examine methodologic issues in research on food and physical environments. Transdisciplinary research on these environments has been hampered by several methodologic challenges.
March 22, 2009 | Program Result Report
From December 2006 to January 2008, a research team at the Urban Institute analyzed the relationship between community characteristics and the prevalence of childhood obesity.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The "go-along" interview method is an opportunity for health researchers to learn more about place by going with individuals on excursions within the local-area context. The "go-along" interview method can be used with other research methods and has a number of advantages and limitations.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between media literacy and smoking rates among adolescents. Since exposure to smoking-related advertising is linked to higher rates of adolescent smoking, increasing media literacy among this demographic may have an impact on smoking rates.
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
A study exploring the relationship between health risk behaviors of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth and the religious environment of their communities found that the religious climate in which LGB youths live can determine their health risk behaviors.