GIH Bulletin: January 2009 (1)
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation (Eagan) awarded state-based organizations a total of $450,000 in grants under two initiatives focused on improving health in Minnesota – Growing Up Healthy: Kids and Communities and Healthy Together: Creating Community with New Americans.
Strengthening the Performance and Effectiveness of the Public Health System
The public health system is the backbone of our nation’s health, but the existing public health infrastructure is inadequate to address the health challenges currently facing this country. Strengthening the Performance and Effectiveness of the Public Health System shares how health funders can improve the functionality of the public health system and develop capabilities, services, and competencies that enhance public health practice.
Connecting the Dots: Developing a Holistic Picture of Children’s Health
Health care services are one of many supports and resources needed to support healthy children. In recognition of the need to take a more comprehensive approach to child health, health funders are being challenged to work outside traditional purviews.
Pediatric Medical Homes: The What and Why of It All
The “medical home” encompasses the places, people, and processes involved in providing comprehensive primary care services. Medical homes replace episodic patient care with a holistic approach fostering ongoing physician-patient relationships, systematic care coordination, and addressing the “whole person.” They also must deliver physician-directed patient care that is accessible, family-centered, comprehensive, continuous, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective.
Health Information Technology: Increasing Quality and Access within Safety Net Providers
Health foundations are uniquely positioned to help safety net providers reach their full health information technology potential, and by providing various means of support, foundations can help to bridge competitive tensions that often derail cooperation.
GIH Products, 1998-2016
Read this compilation of programs and publications to gain an understanding of what GIH has offered the field of health philanthropy, how we have developed, and the breadth of our work on health and operational issues. Click on the title above for the complete compilation of GIH programming.
Infant Mortality: Racial and Regional Disparities
Infant mortality is an important measure of maternal and child health status, as well as a broader indicator of a society’s health and well-being. In the United States infant mortality rates have held stubbornly at about 7 percent for the last 10 years. This statistic, however, masks significant racial and regional disparities.
Strengthening Government Public Health Agencies
Health funders at the national, state, and local levels have made substantial commitments to improve the functionality of the public health system. Using a variety of approaches, they seek to develop the capabilities, services, and competencies that enhance public health practice.