Best of the Best

School-Based Smoking Prevention Seems Worth the Effort
   Should you try to stop young people from smoking through school-based programs? The answer, according to research published by the Cochrane Library, is yes.
posted 5/9/13 9:35 PM  read complete story

Best Practices: Children's Mental Health
   The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation issues a report lexamining how 11 states are using the Affordable Care Act to expand children's mental health services
posted 3/29/13 11:58 AM  read complete story

Best Practices: Caring for the Chronically Ill, Disabled Older Adults
   A review of the Weinberg Foundation's Caregiver initiative offers some ideas on how best to provide long-term care – at home – for chronically ill and disabled older adults.
posted 3/22/13 4:58 PM  read complete story

Local Health Departments Get Stamp of Approval from Accreditation Board
   The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) selected the first winners of its public health department accreditation program
posted 3/7/13 8:58 PM  read complete story

Maryland's Health Enterprise Zones Use Old Idea for New Purpose
   Maryland's health department is devoting $16 million to a 4-year pilot Health Enterprise Zone (HEZ) program
posted 3/6/13 07:44 AM  read complete story

Foundation Picks Best Health Workforce Training Programs
   The Hitachi Foundation selected the latest winners under its Pioneer Employer Initiative for health workforce development
posted 3/1/13 11:06 AM  read complete story

RWJF Prize Winners Exemplify Community Health Best Practices
   Now, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation identifies six winners of its "Roadmaps to Health" prize competition, which offers examples of how communities
posted 2/27/13 09:54 AM  read complete story

Cutting Costs, Improving Efficiency
   The Care Connectivity Consortium and Healtheway announce they were joining forces
posted 2/22/13 11:04 AM  read complete story

Best Practice: Innovation in MCH
   The DC Developing Families Center is recognized by the Association of Maternal and Child Health as winner of its John C. MacQueen Award for Innovation.
posted 2/12/13 4:46 PM  read complete story

Research Awards Give Services Providers Look at Health Results, Innovation
   Recent awards by the Agency for Health Research and Quality under its Health Services Research Dissertation Program offer information, data and analysis that can help local health providers improve their programs and/or pursue more innovative and effective health services policies.
posted 2/1/13 07:55 AM  read complete story