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A Culture of Health Gets Built as a Team: Celebrating Algoma, Wisconsin
Situated along the Lake Michigan shoreline, 2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Culture of Health Prize winner Algoma, Wisconsin is a thriving community of caring hearts and big ideas committed to building ...
A Farmers Market on the Move in North Carolina
A Farmers Market on the Move in North Carolina
Many people in Rowan County, N.C., don’t have access to healthy foods – so Jon Barber, a local food advocate and farmers market owner, is bringing the fruits and vegetables to them. A non-profit venture in the county trucks a mobile farmers market to food deserts, giving people who have little to no transportation options the opportunity to buy...
A Holistic Approach: Making Social Determinants a True Vital Sign
Recently, TEDMED hosted a Google Hangout to examine the impact of poverty on health—specifically how health professionals can incorporate social determinants of health into everyday clinical encounters. To explore this issue, Philadelphia NPR Senior Health Reporter Taunya English moderated a diverse panel of experts including Dr. Yolande Pengetnze of the Parkland Center for...
A Northern Michigan Community Explores Its Assets and Resources
Members of Oscoda County’s CHOICES partnership were well aware of the challenges facing their rural Northern Michigan community. What they needed to understand was what resources they already had. “We needed to focus on what we have and not on what we don’t have,” said Jan Schleicher, certified health coach and co-chair for...
A Rankings Founder Urges Senate to Focus on Socio-Economic Factors of Health
With the County Health Rankings, you can see just how much effect socio-economic factors such as income or where you live have on your health. Today, members of a US Senate subcommittee are hearing that message from one of the founders of the Rankings, who was part of a recent article that dives deeper into the socio-economic factors of health for women.
Dr. David...
Actionable Strategies for Communities to Build Health: The RWJF Prize Reports
We sat down with RWJF Culture of Health Prize Director Carrie Carroll and Translational Researcher Olivia Little to learn more about how the suite of RWJF Culture of Health Prize reports can be helpful to communities.
Addressing Challenging Topics through Courageous Conversations
On November 12, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced the winners of the 2019 Culture of Health Prize: Broward County, Florida; Gonzales, California; Greenville County, South Carolina; Lake County, Colorado; and Sitka, Alaska. These five communities...
Addressing High Rates of Obesity in Muscatine County, Iowa
Every five years, all counties in Iowa are required to perform a health needs assessment, then submit a detailed health improvement plan to the state department of public health. This year, health officials in Muscatine County were excited to have a new set of data to incorporate into their planning — the detailed information from the 2010 County Health Rankings.