Active living by design: perspectives from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

"The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Our efforts focus on improving both the health of everyone in America and their health care—how it's delivered, how it's paid for, and how well it does for patients and their families." Web site: http://www.rwjf.org/ [1] City: Princeton State: New Jersey Types of Research: Active Living College Alc...

States' experience with benefit design.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program provides promising junior faculty extramural funding, expert mentoring, and the training needed to be successful in the academic role. The Nurse Faculty Scholars program, which admitted its first cohort in 2008, is designed to address the nursing faculty shortage by enhancing leadership, educational, and research skills in junior...

Disease management: findings from leading state programs.

Disease management programs are designed to contain costs by improving health among the chronically ill. More than 20 states are now engaged in developing and implementing Medicaid disease management programs for their primary care case management and fee-for-service populations.

Policy-contribution assessment and field-building analysis of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living Research Program.

BACKGROUND The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation requested this utilization-focused evaluation of its Active Living Research (ALR) program. This evaluation reports on the trajectory of influence of past and future ALR outcomes on field-building and policy contributions as well as on possible users of completed and disseminated ALR products. METHODS In 2006 and 2007, key-informant interviews were...