Behavioral Health and Public Policy
Behavioral health advocates ended a decade-long push for equity within private health insurance plans that cover mental health and addiction services with the passing of a new law that requires group health insurers to offer coverage for mental illness and substance use disorders on the same terms as physical illnesses.
GIH Bulletin: March 2009 (2)
The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida, Inc. (Jacksonville) awarded a $100,000 grant to the Orange County Health Department (Orlando, FL) for a program to educate and link pre-conceptual and pregnant women to local health clinics for oral health services.
CHIP Reauthorization: Details and Implications
This Issue Focus article summarizes a February 2009 Grantmakers In Health audio conference, which discussed the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 and featured Cindy Mann, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.
Rural Health Care: Innovations in Policy and Practice
All too often discussions of rural health policy concentrate almost exclusively on the challenges in rural areas. But while it is true that rural America has not been immune to the effects of major economic and societal trends, rural areas’ responses to these challenges demonstrate that they are often ideal incubators for innovative policies and practices.
Effective Community Programs to Fight Health Disparities
Eliminating disparities in health status and health care has been an area of substantial interest and programming among health funders at the national, state, and local levels for well over a decade. The latest findings from research and ongoing experience on the ground allow us to assess the progress being made. Engaging with communities in their fight against disparities is also becoming increasingly important to funders.
GIH Bulletin: March 2009 (1)
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation (Pittsburgh, PA) made three grants totaling $345,000 to organizations with health and human services programs that benefit residents of West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania.
Bridging, Building, and Beyond: Breaking Down Barriers to Health Improvement
This resource portfolio from GIH’s 2008 annual meeting Bridging, Building, and Beyond: Breaking Down Barriers to Health Improvement, features six essays written by GIH staff.
GIH Bulletin: February 2009 (2)
The Atlantic Philanthropies (New York, NY) awarded a $3.5-million grant to Boston College’s Center for the Study of Home and Community Life (Boston, MA).
GIH Bulletin: February 2009 (1)
The 2009 GIH Annual Meeting on Health Philanthropy Seeing the Future with 20/20 Vision will take place in a fitting location: New Orleans, Louisiana.