To Improve Health and Health Care, Volume XVI : The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Crafting a New Vision for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- Acknowledgments -- Section One: The Pioneer Portfolio -- Chapter 1. Where Do Ideas Come From? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Experience -- Finding Ideas 1: At the Beginning -- Finding Ideas 2: The Traditional Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Approach -- Finding Ideas 3: The Pioneer Way -- Finding Ideas 4: The Present and Near Future -- Notes -- Chapter 2. The Pioneer Portfolio -- Introduction -- The Search for Innovation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- A Culture within a Culture -- Networking the Networks -- Harnessing the Power of Data -- Opening "Opportunity Spaces" -- From Enabling to Breakthrough -- "Pitch Us" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3. OpenNotes -- Introduction -- A Timely Idea -- To Share or Not to Share -- Launching the Experiment -- What Happened -- Aftermath -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Chapter 4. Using Video Games to Improve Health -- Introduction -- The Potential of Games to Improve Health -- Games for Health: Bringing the Health and Video Game Communities Together -- Health Games Research: Building a Body of Knowledge -- Face Station: A Game for Autistic Children -- A Burgeoning, Struggling Field -- Video Games for Health-An Oxymoron? -- The Future: Promise and Frustration -- Notes -- Section Two: Reducing Childhood Obesity -- Chapter 5. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Efforts to Reduce Childhood Obesity -- Notes -- Chapter 6. Building a Field of Childhood Obesity Research -- Introduction -- Forging a Multipronged Research Agenda -- Active Living Research -- Healthy Eating Research -- Bridging the Gap -- The Rudd Center for Food Policy &amp -- Obesity -- Salud America! The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children.

The African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN) -- Conclusion: An Eye to the Future -- Notes -- Chapter 7. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Programs to Improve the Built Environment -- Introduction -- Notes -- A Suite of Programs to Improve the Built Environment -- A Tale of Three Cities -- Other Communities -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8. The Healthy Schools Program -- Introduction -- Note -- A Lesson Taken to Heart -- Getting Started -- How the Healthy Schools Program Works -- The Healthy Schools Program in Practice -- Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 9. The Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Program -- Introduction -- Notes -- It Takes a Community -- Jefferson County, Alabama -- Charleston, West Virginia -- Louisville, Kentucky -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Section Three: Local Initiatives -- Chapter 10. The 211 LA Developmental Screening and Care Coordination Program -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bringing Developmental Screening to 211 LA -- Early Intervention-the Stitch in Time -- Developmental Screening -- Neither Diagnosis Nor Prescription -- Care Coordination-Active, Hands-On Referral -- A Performance-Driven Organization -- The Road Ahead -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Editors -- The Contributors -- Index -- EULA.

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