Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Report on Obesity in America
beSpacific (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
"The country will never be able to contain rates of chronic diseases and health care costs until we find ways...
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Video Game Politics
Free Market Mojo (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
... bid to look at the possible health benefits that playing videogames can bring. The money, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will examine a variety of issues across a number of existing health problems to see if a tangible link between games and health improvements can be made. A statement released by the Foundation notes a few examples, including: “How...
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News: Grants awarded for games-health research
GamesIndustry.biz (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Over USD 1.85 million in grants has been assigned to nine research teams in the US in a bid to look at the possible health benefits that playing videogames can bring. The money, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will examine a variety of issues across a number of existing health problems to see if a tangible link between games and health improvements can be made....
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- Nine Leading Research Teams Selected to Study How Digital Games Improve Players' Health - News Unfiltered
- University researchers to study video games' affect on health - The Industry Standard
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Digital Games for Physical, Cognitive and Behavioral Health
SharpBrains (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) just announced more than $1.85 million in grants for research teams to study how digital games can improve players’ health behaviors and outcomes (both brain-based and behavioral). The press release: Nine Leading Research Teams Selected to Study How Digital Games Improve Players’ Health “Digital games are interactive...
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Barrow dentist wins award for her work with children
Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
... times a year. Ashley's prevention programs and other accomplishments got the attention of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Out of 532 nominees, she was one of 10 health care professionals to receive the foundation's Community Health Leaders award, given annually to those who "overcome daunting odds to improve the health and quality of life for disadvantaged...
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We the Consumers
The Health Care Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
As part of the work of the Commission to Build a Healthier America, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released an issue brief in September, titled Education and Health. It turns out that 16% of us over the age of 25 never completed high school and 30% of us have no schooling beyond high school. The percentages are of course much higher for those of us who happen to be black...
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University researchers to study video games' affect on health
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... been awarded between $100,000 and $300,000 each from $1.85 million in grant money offered by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation . The researchers will lead one- to two-year studies of digital games that engage players in physical activity and/or motivate them to improve how they take care of themselves through healthy changes in lifestyle; prevention behaviors; cognitive,...
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Nine Leading Research Teams Selected to Study How Digital Games Improve Players' Health
News Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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 Games Research national program, nine research teams across the country will conduct extensive studies to discover, for example,...
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Drexel University's Eleventh Street Health Services Recognized as National Model of Innovative Health Care
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... released today by the Center to Champion Nursing in America, a joint initiative of AARP, the AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Grants Doled Out to Enable Games & Health Research
GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
As part of an initiative to chronicle the health benefits of videogames, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has bestowed over $1.85 million in grants to nine research teams. RWJF’s Health Games Research program, headquartered at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is backed by $8.25 million in funding from RWJF’s Pioneer Portfolio, which operates...
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Kristof: U.S. Health Care Sucks & An Apology to Slovenia
Tennessee Guerilla Women (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... were similar or it was difficult to determine. Yet another study, cited in a recent report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute, looked at how well 19 developed countries succeeded in avoiding “preventable deaths,” such as those where a disease could be cured or forestalled. [The U.S.] . . ranked in last place. . . . It’s true...
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Health Insurers Pursue Growth Potential of Individual Market
Gov20, HealthIT & Healthcare Reform (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... under proposed health reforms would buy individual coverage, according to the study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). “The current strategies insurers are pursuing in the individual market are unlikely to meet the needs of less-than-healthy people seeking affordable, comprehensive coverage,” said HSC President Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., coauthor...
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Grants Being Issued To Prove That Video Games Can Save Mankind
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... all. According to the press release…This is the second round of grants to be awarded from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its Health Games Research national program, based at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Funded studies explore topics ranging from how dance pad games may help Parkinson's patients reduce the risk of falling to whether...
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Kristof Speaks!
www.ECHealthInsurance.com/blog/ (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... were similar or it was difficult to determine. Yet another study, cited in a recent report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute, looked at how well 19 developed countries succeeded in avoiding “preventable deaths,” such as those where a disease could be cured or forestalled. What Senator Shelby called “the best health care system” ranked in last...
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Former Clinton Media Aide Schear Named VP of Communications at Planned Parenthood
Potomac Flacks (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Stuart Schear has been hired as Vice President for Communications at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Schear was a Communications and Policy executive at The Atlantic Philanthropies. He previously worked at the Markle Foundation as Director of Communications. Schear also has worked at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and at the White House, where he...