How Can We Design Communities Where Kids and Families Thrive?
Raising Places is a new funding opportunity that will engage teams in six selected communities to create healthier environments for kids and families. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - March 23, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Sara Cantor Aye Tags: Public and Community Health Source Type: news
What You Need to Know About Hospital Roles in Community Investment
Hospitals have a long tradition of serving their communities—not only by providing health care, but by hiring local workers and contractors, buying locally and building new clinical facilities within their communities. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - March 15, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Donald F. Schwarz Tags: Public and Community Health Source Type: news
Improving Community Health by Strengthening Community Investment
Hospitals and health systems use a wide variety of strategies to invest in improving the social determinant of health in the communities they serve. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - March 15, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Hacke R Tags: Social Determinants of Health Public and Community Health Source Type: news
Seven Lessons I've Learned About Improving Health in America
In her 2017 Annual Message, former President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, shares what she has learned after 14 years leading RWJF in the pursuit of improving health for everyone in America. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - March 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Source Type: news
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Selects 2017 RWJF Culture of Health Prize Finalists
Eleven communities have been chosen as finalists for the fifth annual RWJF Culture of Health Prize. The Prize honors and elevates communities that understand health is a shared value and everyone has a role to play in driving change. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - March 7, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Tags: Public and Community Health Source Type: news
CDC Foundation and RWJF Launch 500 Cities Project
RWJF announces the launch of the 500 Cities project, a first-of-its-kind data analysis for the 500 largest cities in America, and the census tracts within cities, to identify, analyze, and report data for a select number of chronic disease measures. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - March 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Tags: Public and Community Health Source Type: news
CDC Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Launch 500 Cities Project
RWJF announces the launch of the 500 Cities project, a first-of-its-kind data analysis for the 500 largest cities in America, and the census tracts within cities, to identify, analyze, and report data for a select number of chronic disease measures. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - March 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Tags: Public and Community Health Source Type: news
Four Ways Artists Can Help Heal Communities
Project HEAL (Health Equity Art Learning) uses the arts to enable communities to work toward health equity, hand-in-hand with policymakers, health care institutions, nonprofits, and others. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - March 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Culture of Health Blog Tags: Public and Community Health Source Type: news
