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December 31, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
A Doctor Delivers Multiple Acts of Human Kindness to Homeless Women. “She was just one more homeless woman who had been raped, a ‘nobody,’ just more paperwork,” blogged RWJF Community Health Leader Roseanne H. Means, MD, explaining why a woman in he ...
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This paper summarizes current evidence on social relations and health, specifically how social integration and social support are related to health behaviors and health outcomes, using results from published reviews.
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Kathi Toepel with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
June 14, 2012 | Journal Article
The study's results shows social discrimination can be a chronic stressor, with a detrimental impact on physiological systems over time.
June 13, 2012 | Story
New evidence suggests discrimination is an important social determinant of health among White Americans.
March 29, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, the news media is covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation scholars, fellows and grantees. Here are some examples. Nurse.com and Becker’s Hospital Review report on the launch of the Robert Wood Johnson F ...
February 6, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: You conducted interviews with hundreds of people across the country who live alone. Tell us about the trends you identified in the book. Klinenberg: When I looked more closely at the issue I learned that living alone had become incredibly commo ...
September 1, 2011 | Program Result
To combat isolation and loneliness among vulnerable individuals, including the disabled and frail elderly, the PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship and Tyze Personal Networks promoted Web-based social support networks called Tyze.
June 27, 2011 | Program Result
The Center for New Community conducted a grassroots effort to address health and related problems of immigrants working in meatpacking and poultry-processing plants in 12 rural communities in Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota.
April 18, 2011 | Story
LGB youth are 20 percent more likely to attempt suicide in a negative social environment than in a positive one, regardless of their individual risk factors, concludes study by RWJF Health & Society Scholar.