Doing Better Caged

Why aren't we doing better?

Doing Better By Knowing More

series of forums honoring the memory of Harold Richman, who, with his friend and colleague Tom Joe, founded the Center for the Study of Social Policy in 1979 and chaired its board from 2000 until his death in 2009. Harold contributed much to the field of children's and family services. His distinguished career reflected his belief that actions to improve children's and families' lives require a...

Bronchiolitis: doing less and still getting better.

Infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is among the universal experiences of childhood. Worldwide, by 1 year of life, half of all children have been infected with RSV and by 2 years of age, virtually all children have been infected with RSV. Unlike many viral infections, it is the prevalence, as opposed to the severity, of infection that motivates our collective focus on the optimal t...

Doing what we do best, only better

As current editor-in-chief and executive editor for the Journal of Cell Biology, we are writing to describe our shared vision for the journal: To enable the swift and painless publication of advances and thought-provoking ideas in a range of fields that inform cell biology, and to promote this high-quality work as broadly as possible in our community. Throughout 2015, we celebrated the 60th ann...

Doing Better for Children: The Way Forward

This chapter offers a range of policy recommendations for improving child well-being: invest early in children's lives; concentrate on improving the lot of vulnerable children; design interventions for children that reinforce positive development across their life cycle and across a range of well-being outcomes; create clear, achievable targets for child well-being outcomes and regularly collec...