Research For Our Changing Health Environment 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. As part of the Foundation's efforts to inform the public, the twelfth volume in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series, To Improve Health and Health Care, provides an in-depth look into the programs it funds. This volume of the Anthology gives particular attention to the Foundation's efforts to expand health insurance coverage. The first three chapters examine the topic from different perspectives: policy, advocacy, and communications efforts to advance health care reform; research on health insurance coverage; and enrolling eligible children in the Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Written by the country's leading science and medical journalists, as well as experts from universities and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Volume XII, includes chapters on
Expanding health insurance coverage
Research on health insurance
Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program
The Catholic Social Services outreach project
Improving health care in rural America
Community-based dental education
Helping former prisoners reenter society
Pediatric asthma
Shaping public policy
To further its mission of improving the health and health care of all Americans, the RWJF strives to foster innovation, develop ideas, disseminate information, and enable committed people to devote their energies to improving the nation's well-being. As part of the Foundation's efforts to inform the public, "To Improve Health and Health Care," the on-going anthology of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides an in-depth look into the programs it funds. Written for policy makers and practitioners, the series offers valuable lessons for developing plans for the coming years.
