Connecting Children to Ongoing and Coordinated Health Care

Ongoing and coordinated care for children has been linked to better health outcomes, as well as lower overall costs.  This Issue Focus highlights opportunities for grantmakers that include improving access to medical homes, coordinating care for children with chronic diseases, educating providers, colocating services, and reducing emergency department use.

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Putting People First

This compilation of speeches from GIH’s 2004 annual meeting includes remarks from King Davis, Harvey Fineberg, David Gould, Pedro Greer, Lauren LeRoy, Mary Story, Jerome Williams, and Margo Wootan.

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Selling Healthy Lifestyles: Using Social Marketing to Promote Change and Prevent Disease

Social marketing is increasingly being applied to the promotion of healthier behaviors and the prevention of chronic diseases. This 2 page Issue Focus describes how grantmakers can use social marketing techniques to help people quit smoking or never start, eat a healthier diet, and get more exercise.

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Annual Report 2003

GIH’s 2003 Annual Report document’s the organization’s programmatic and financial activities.

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Taking Time for Board Engagement Strategies

This GIH Issue Focus examines various board engagement strategies.

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Strengthening and Maintaining the Public Health Infrastructure

This Issue Focus article presents information on the issues facing the nation’s public health infrastructure and how health grantmakers help strengthen the system by partnering with federal, state, and local health departments, as well as with academic institutions and community groups that contribute to the public’s health.

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Outreach to Uninsured Children: Recent Foundation Initiatives

This GIH Issue Focus outlines what grantmakers are doing to reach uninsured children.

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Health Programs Get Funding Boost: New Federal Funds Available for Prevention, Treatment, and Research

This GIH Issue Focus highlights new federal funds available for prevention, treatment, and research, and shares additional policy developments relevant to funders.

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Medicare + Choice – New Health Plan Options Challenge Medicare Beneficiaries to Act as Informed Consumers: Is the System Ready?

This supplement to the GIH Bulletin outlined new health plan options that challenge medicare beneficiaries to act as informed consumers.

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Early Childhood Development: The First Five Years

This GIH Issue Focus dives into child development services provided in the health care setting in the first five years of life.

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