{"title":"Start smart: healthy weight in early childhood.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86968,"journal":{"name":"Issue brief (Grantmakers in Health)","volume":" 41","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31401687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Returning the mouth to the body: integrating oral health & primary care.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86968,"journal":{"name":"Issue brief (Grantmakers in Health)","volume":" 40","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30952312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Too few choices, too much junk: connecting food & health.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86968,"journal":{"name":"Issue brief (Grantmakers in Health)","volume":" 39","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40163382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Safety net in the era of health reform: a new vision of care.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The collection of services and providers that making up the safety net system plays a crucial role in providing health care to the nearly 50 million uninsured adults and children nationwide (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured 2011a). Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) presents both opportunities and significant challenges for this system. The health reform law will extend health insurance coverage to more than 30 million individuals by 2014. At the same time, it will invest significantly in building provider and clinic capacity, as well as in more coordinated and integrated care delivery systems (Summer 2011). This influx of patients will place increased demands on a system that is already experiencing capacity, financial, and workforce stressors. This issue brief focuses on some of the daily challenges facing the safety net, as well as new challenges and opportunities that will emerge as health reform unfolds. Philanthropy has long supported many aspects of the safety net, including developing the business and clinical structure and infrastructure, such as health information technology and strengthening the primary care and paraprofessional workforce. Philanthropy has also helped increase the capacity of community clinics and other safety net providers and expand the services associated with patient-centered care models to include translation, transportation, health literacy support, and community prevention. This paper highlights some of these efforts, and outlines areas of opportunity for funder investment in the safety net in this era of health reform.</p>","PeriodicalId":86968,"journal":{"name":"Issue brief (Grantmakers in Health)","volume":" 38","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40163381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where do we go from here? Combating health care disparities in an era of reform.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Issue Dialogue Where Do We Go from Here: Combating Health Care Disparities in an Era of Reform, convened on November 5, 2009, explored concrete strategies funders might employ to combat racial and ethnic disparities in health care in light of the likely enactment of federal health care reform legislation. It also examined efforts to improve health equity by intervening on the social determinants of health and building public will to combat disparities.</p>","PeriodicalId":86968,"journal":{"name":"Issue brief (Grantmakers in Health)","volume":" 36","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28782193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health & justice: health care for people involved in the justice system.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The issue of health and justice is especially pressing because people involved in the justice system are one of the most medically vulnerable groups in this country. They are often at-risk youth, children and adults with a history of physical and sexual abuse, low-income men of color, and people with high rates of chronic and communicable disease who may also be struggling with mental illness and substance abuse. Health funders have found that focusing on people entering, in, or emerging from the criminal and juvenile justice systems increases the likelihood of connecting with vulnerable populations that are hard to pull into traditional health interventions. Successful initiatives targeting these groups improve health, reduce recidivism, and transform systems by building cross-sectoral partnerships among health, justice, mental health, and substance abuse systems, which may require policy change at the local, state, and federal levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":86968,"journal":{"name":"Issue brief (Grantmakers in Health)","volume":" 37","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28782195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reaching kids: partnering with preschools and schools to improve children's health.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As part of its continuing mission to serve trustees and staff of health foundations and corporate giving programs, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) convened a group of grantmakers and education experts on May 27, 2009, for an informative discussion about ways in which preschools and schools are working to improve outcomes related to children's health. The Issue Dialogue Reaching Kids: Partnering with Preschools and Schools to Improve Children's Health synthesized the latest research on health-related issues affecting children's educational outcomes. It also provided illustrative examples of foundation-driven initiatives aimed at promoting collaborations between the health and education sectors to improve children's health and development outcomes. This Issue Brief summarizes background materials compiled for the meeting and highlights key themes and findings that emerged from the day's discussion among meeting participants.</p>","PeriodicalId":86968,"journal":{"name":"Issue brief (Grantmakers in Health)","volume":" 35","pages":"1-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28544771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effective community programs to fight health disparities.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Eliminating disparities in health status and health care has been an area of substantial interest and programming among health funders at the national, state, and local levels for well over a decade. As we draw closer to the Healthy People 2010 deadline for eliminating disparities, the latest findings from research and ongoing experience on the ground allow us to assess the progress being made on this critical goal. Engaging with communities in their fight against disparities is also becoming increasingly important to funders. Examples of strategies and interventions provide a framework of practical steps to success that can be used in funders' efforts to eliminate health disparities.</p>","PeriodicalId":86968,"journal":{"name":"Issue brief (Grantmakers in Health)","volume":" 33","pages":"i-v, 1-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28384219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rural health care: innovations in policy and practice.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>All too often discussions of rural health policy concentrate almost exclusively on the challenges in rural areas: high rates of uninsurance, obesity, smoking, and alcohol use; a shortage of medical staff and facilities; economic decline; rapidly changing demographics as the population ages and new immigrants arrive; and physical and social isolation due to geography, population loss, and weather. But while it is true that rural America has not been immune to the effects of major economic and societal trends, rural areas' responses to these challenges demonstrate that they are often ideal incubators for innovative policies and practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":86968,"journal":{"name":"Issue brief (Grantmakers in Health)","volume":" 34","pages":"i-v, 1-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28349180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connecting the dots: developing a holistic picture of children's health.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Current definitions of child health transcend the historical biomedical model, which largely equated health with the absence of disease. Scientific evidence indicates that child health is best defined as the optimization of a child's developmental potential and functional capacity with interventions focused on maximizing protective factors and minimizing risk factors. This approach to child health recognizes the interplay among physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development and stresses the lifelong consequences of deficits in these developmental areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":86968,"journal":{"name":"Issue brief (Grantmakers in Health)","volume":" 32","pages":"i-v, 1-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28348754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}