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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launches Commission to Look Beyond Medical Care System to Improve the Health of All Americans Foundation issues new report which finds poor, minority and middle-class Americans with less education live sicker and die younger; new opinion poll finds strong public support for action.	News releases	11/17/2009
"Better Ways to Pay for Health Care" Recommended by National Health Care Quality Coalition This report provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the problems with current health care payment systems, and describes alternative payment systems that will address these problems. It demonstrates that rationing and price controls are not the only ways to...	News releases	11/14/2009
Alcohol Industry's Marketing Overexposes Hispanic Teens Hispanic youth ages 12 to 20 often saw and heard more alcohol advertising per capita during 2003 and 2004 than young people in their age group in general, according to a new report released today from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at Georgetown...	News releases	11/12/2009
Health Insurers Pursue Growth Potential of Individual Market Insurers are pursuing strategies to tap the growth potential of the individual health insurance market, including entering less-regulated markets and developing lower-cost, less-comprehensive products targeting younger, healthy consumers, according to a study...	News releases	11/05/2009
Nine Leading Research Teams Selected to Study How Digital Games Improve Players' Health The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today announced more than $1.85 million in grants for research that will offer unprecedented insight into how digital games can improve players' health behaviors and outcomes. With funding from RWJF's Health...	News releases	11/04/2009
National Summit on Workable Solutions to Long Term Care Challenges Webcast: Ed Howard moderates a discussion about the issues facing older adults and how community partnerships are working to identify, prioritize, and implement workable solutions to long term care problems.	News releases	10/29/2009
Study Shows Overwhelming Parent Support for Healthier Schools Survey for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation finds most parents willing to help schools improve food offerings and increase physical activity.	News releases	10/28/2009
Special Issue of Medical Journal Explores Latino Health and Health Care New facts uncovered to advance health care systems and policy for U.S. Latinos.	News releases	10/28/2009
Hospitals That Care for Poor Patients Face Digital Divide Without Federal Help Hospitals that serve a disproportionately large share of poor patients are lagging behind other hospitals in adopting electronic health records, leading to a digital divide that could exacerbate health care disparities, researchers report.	News releases	10/26/2009
Kids Spoon-Fed Marketing and Advertising for Least Healthy Breakfast Cereals Researchers release cereal rankings based on nutrition and marketing exposure.	News releases	10/26/2009

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