Advances November 2008

• On 10th Anniversary of Tobacco Settlement, Report Finds Most States Fail to Adequately Fund Tobacco Prevention Programs
• Food and Beverage Marketing to Children and Adolescents: What Changes are Needed to Promote Healthy Eating Habits?
• RWJF Commission Hosts Final Field Hearing in Denver
• Increasing Quality, Reducing Disparities in Heart Care
• RWJF Announces Grant Recipients for Initiative to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence
• New Report Shows How to Reform the Expensive and Dangerous Way We Pay for Health Care

Advances October 2008

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America Releases New Report, Holds Second Public Hearing
• Foundation Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program
• Trust for America's Health Releases Blueprint for Modernizing Public Health
• How Engaged are American Consumers in Their Health and Health Care?
• New Report Synthesizes the Literature on the Growth of Health Care Spending
• New Studies Explore the Effect of Reform on Massachusetts' Uninsured and Underinsured
• HCFO Studies Featured in Issue of Health Services Research
• Note About Last Month's Newsletter

Advances September 2008

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Makes $18-Million Investment in Recess to Improve Children's Health, Learning
• RWJF Unveils Future Vision for Personal Health Records
• America's Farm and Ranch Families Struggle With Rising Cost of Health Care
• Nation's Public Health Leaders Convene at ASTHO-NACCHO Conference
• RWJF Commentary Regarding Social Factors' Influence on Variations in Health and Life Expectancy
• RWJF Program Helps Improve Hospital Language Services
• Online Toolkit Provides Resources and Lessons for Health Plans to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care
• Gauging the Effect of Federal Commodity Programs on School Meal Nutrition
• RWJF Awards 15 Nurse Faculty Scholars

Advances December 2007

• RWJF Grant to the AARP Foundation Launches Center to Address Nursing Shortage
• Significant Progress in Nation's Public Health Preparedness, But Critical Gaps Persist
• 2007: The Year in Research
• States Spend Less Than Half the Minimum Recommended by CDC for Tobacco Prevention
• Study Reveals Seriousness of Adolescent Overweight on Future Adult Coronary Heart Disease
• Policy Briefs Offer Insight Into Fighting Antibiotic Resistance
• New Personal Health Record Approaches Require New Views of Privacy and Related Policies
• Evaluating the Covering Kids & Families® Program
• Commentary: Benefiting Patients Through Health Research