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To Improve Health and Health Care Vol XVI : The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology.
Title:
To Improve Health and Health Care Vol XVI : The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology.
Author:
Isaacs, Stephen L.
ISBN:
9781119000792
Personal Author:
Edition:
16th ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (299 pages)
Series:
Jossey-Bass Public Health Ser.
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Crafting a New Vision for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- Acknowledgments -- Section One: The Pioneer Portfolio -- Chapter 1. Where Do Ideas Come From? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Experience -- Finding Ideas 1: At the Beginning -- Finding Ideas 2: The Traditional Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Approach -- Finding Ideas 3: The Pioneer Way -- Finding Ideas 4: The Present and Near Future -- Notes -- Chapter 2. The Pioneer Portfolio -- Introduction -- The Search for Innovation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- A Culture within a Culture -- Networking the Networks -- Harnessing the Power of Data -- Opening "Opportunity Spaces" -- From Enabling to Breakthrough -- "Pitch Us" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3. OpenNotes -- Introduction -- A Timely Idea -- To Share or Not to Share -- Launching the Experiment -- What Happened -- Aftermath -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Chapter 4. Using Video Games to Improve Health -- Introduction -- The Potential of Games to Improve Health -- Games for Health: Bringing the Health and Video Game Communities Together -- Health Games Research: Building a Body of Knowledge -- Face Station: A Game for Autistic Children -- A Burgeoning, Struggling Field -- Video Games for Health-An Oxymoron? -- The Future: Promise and Frustration -- Notes -- Section Two: Reducing Childhood Obesity -- Chapter 5. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Efforts to Reduce Childhood Obesity -- Notes -- Chapter 6. Building a Field of Childhood Obesity Research -- Introduction -- Forging a Multipronged Research Agenda -- Active Living Research -- Healthy Eating Research -- Bridging the Gap -- The Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity -- Salud America! The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children.

The African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN) -- Conclusion: An Eye to the Future -- Notes -- Chapter 7. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Programs to Improve the Built Environment -- Introduction -- Notes -- A Suite of Programs to Improve the Built Environment -- A Tale of Three Cities -- Other Communities -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8. The Healthy Schools Program -- Introduction -- Note -- A Lesson Taken to Heart -- Getting Started -- How the Healthy Schools Program Works -- The Healthy Schools Program in Practice -- Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 9. The Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Program -- Introduction -- Notes -- It Takes a Community -- Jefferson County, Alabama -- Charleston, West Virginia -- Louisville, Kentucky -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Section Three: Local Initiatives -- Chapter 10. The 211 LA Developmental Screening and Care Coordination Program -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bringing Developmental Screening to 211 LA -- Early Intervention-the Stitch in Time -- Developmental Screening -- Neither Diagnosis Nor Prescription -- Care Coordination-Active, Hands-On Referral -- A Performance-Driven Organization -- The Road Ahead -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Editors -- The Contributors -- Index -- EULA.
Abstract:
The RWJF's biannual update on the latest developments in U.S. health care To Improve Health and Health Care is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's biannual anthology, focusing on the pressing health and health care issues facing the country. This volume covers some of the most important topics in public health, preventative medicine, and health services. Readers will find an in-depth look into the programs funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, providing policy makers, practitioners, and interested members of the public a valuable perspective to inform strategy for the coming years. As part of the Foundation's efforts to inform the public, this ongoing anthology of the RWJF provides an update on the latest developments and advances taking place in the field of health, bringing readers up to speed on where we are, and where we still need to go. Understand the new developments in reducing childhood obesity Examine innovations in health care delivery Learn how RWJF programs are making a difference to patients and providers Since 1972, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health. To further its mission of improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation strives to foster innovation, develop ideas, disseminate information, and enable committed people to devote their energies to improving the nation's well-being. To Improve Health and Health Care describes the latest outcomes and progress, for a complete overview of the American health care system.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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