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Book SynopsisResearchers who are funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation represent the elite in public health and health services research. This sixth volume in The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series selects the most critical and influential research.
Table of ContentsForeword (Steven A. Schroeder).
Editors' Introduction (Stephen L. Isaacs and James R. Knickman).
Acknowledgments.
Section One: Reflections on Health, Philanthropy, and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
1. A Conversation with Steven A. Schroeder (Renie Schapiro).
Section Two: Improving Health Care.
2. The Health Tracking Initiative (Carolyn Newbergh).
3. Practice Sights: State Primary Care Development Strategies (Irene M. Wielawski).
4. The Foundation's End-of-Life Programs: Changing the American Way of Death (Ethan Bronner).
Section Three: Improving Health.
5. The Center for Tobacco-Free Kids and the Tobacco-Settlement Negotiations (Digby Diehl).
6. Helping Addicted Smokers Quit: The Foundation's Tobacco-Cessation Programs (C. Tracy Orleans and Joseph Alper).
7. Combating Alcohol Abuse in Northwestern New Mexico: Gallup's Fighting Back and Healthy Nations Programs (Paul Brodeur).
Section Four: Strengthening Human Capacity.
8. Building Health Policy Research Capacity in the Social Sciences (David C. Colby).
9. The Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Program (Paul Mantell).
Section Five: Communications.
10. The Covering Kids Communications Campaign (Susan B. Garland).
Section Six: A Look Back.
11. The Swing-Bed Program (Sharon Begley).
The Editors.
The Contributors.
Index.
Table of Contents, To Improve Health and Health Care 1997.
Table of Contents, To Improve Health and Health Care 1998-1999.
Table of Contents, To Improve Health and Health Care 2000.
Table of Contents, To Improve Health and Health Care 2001.
Table of Contents, To Improve Health and Health Care Volume V.
