America's Health Rankings 2008
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America's Health Starts With Healthy Children: How Do States Compare? (2008). Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America
http://www.commissiononhealth.org/Documents/ChildrensHealth_Chartbook.pdf |
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Assuring Healthy Caregivers - A Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework
http://www.cdc.gov/aging/caregiving/index.htm |
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Blueprint for a Healthier America - Modernizing the Federal Public Health System to Focus on Prevention and Preparedness. (2008). Trust for America's Health
http://healthyamericans.org/assets/files/Blueprint.pdf |
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CDC Seeks to Protect Older Adults With Shingles Vaccine Message
http://www.chronicdisease.org/files/public/shinglesFINAL3_21_08.pdf |
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CDC Urges Older Adults to Improve Health, Increase Longevity, through Smoking Cessation
http://www.chronicdisease.org/files/public/smokingFINAL3_21_08.pdf |
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Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health. (2008). World Health Organization (WHO), Albany, NY.
http://www.who.int/social_determinants/final_report/en/index.html |
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Community Programs to Promote Youth Development. (2002). Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3775/5444.aspx |
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Creating Healthy Communities - The Process of Community Discovery (2002). Cooperative Extension Service, College of Rural Alaska, University of Alaska, Faribanks, AK
http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=102&CID=274&CatID=274&ItemID=2743785&NID=20&LanguageID=0 |
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Creating Healthy States: Building Healthy Communities. Issue Brief, Feb 25, 2006. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices.
http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/0602CREATINGHEALTHYSTATESCOMM.PDF |
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DeVol, R. & Bedroussian, A. (2007). An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease. The Milken Institute.
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Geography Matters: Child Well-Being in the States. (2008). Every Child Matters Education Fund, Washington, DC.
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Griffin-Wiesner, J. (2005). The Journey of Community Change - A How-to Guide for Healthy Communities+Healthy Youth Initiatives. Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN.
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Growing Bigger Better - Lessons From Experience Corps' Expansion in Five Cities (2008). Public/Private Ventures (P/PV), Philadelphia, PA.
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Hamilton, L., Hamilton, L., Duncan, C. & Colocousis, C. (2008). Place Matters - Challenges and Opportunities in Four Rural Americas. A Carsey Institute Report on Rural America. Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.
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Health and Behavior: The Interplay of Biological, Behavioral, and Societal Influences. (2001). Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3775/5444.aspx |
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Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion. (2004). Institute of Medicine, National Academies Press, Washington, DC.
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Health, United States, 2007 - with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans. National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services; 2007. Washington, DC.
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Healthy Food Healthy Communities - A Decade of Community Food Projects in Action. (2007). CSREES, USDA.
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/newsroom/news/2007news/cfp_report.pdf |
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Healthy Women, Healthy Babies. (2008). Trust for America's Health, Washington, DC.
http://healthyamericans.org/reports/files/BirthOutcomesShort0608.pdf |
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Institute of Medicine (IOM). 2008. Retooling for an Aging America. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12089 |
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Johnson, J. & Strange, M. (2007). Why Rural Matters 2007: The Realities of Rural Education
http://www.ruraledu.org/site/apps/nl/content.asp?c=beJMIZOCIrH&b=3508831&ct=4537855 |
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Kretzmann, J.P. & McKnight, J.L. (1993). Building Communities from the Inside Out - A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets. ACTA Publications, Chicago, IL.
http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/publications/community/buildingblurb.html |
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Mead, H., Cartwright-Smith, L., Jones, K., Woods, K. & Siegal, B. (2008). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Health Care: A Chartbook. The Commonwealth Fund.
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=672908 |
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National Rural Assembly Final Report June 2007
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Overcoming Obstacles to Health - Report From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the Commission to Build a Healthier America
http://www.commissiononhealth.org/PDF/ObstaclesToHealth-Report.pdf |
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plain language thersaurus for Health Communications, Draft Version 3 (2007). National Center for Health Marketing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), DHHS
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Providing Hospice and Palliative Care in Rural and Frontier Areas. 2005. Center to Advance Palliative Care; National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization; National Rural Health Association
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Reach Higher, America - Overcoming Crisis in the U.S. Workforce. (2008). Report of the National Commission on Adult Literacy, New York, NY.
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Reaching for a Healthier Life - Facts on Socioeconomic Status and Health in the U.S. (2007) The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health
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Rural Obesity - Strategies to Support Rural Counties in Building Capacity. (2008). National Association of Counties (NACo), Washington, DC.
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Rural Philanthropy - Building Dialogue From Within by Rachael Swierzewski (2007). National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
http://www.ncrp.org/downloads/PDF/NCRP2007-Rural_Philanthropy_REVISEDEDITION_FINAL-Lowres.pdf |
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Shortchanging America's Health 2008 - A State-By-State Look at How Federal Public Health Dollars Are Spent (2008)
http://healthyamericans.org/reports/shortchanging08/Shortchanging08.pdf |
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Snow, L. (2001). The Organization of Hope: A Workbook for Rural Asset-Based Community Development. ACTA Publications, Chicago, IL.
http://www.actapublications.com/ |
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Snow, L. (2004). The Power of Asset Mapping - How Your Congregation Can Act on Its Gifts. The Alban Institute, Herndon, VA.
http://www.alban.org/bookdetails.aspx?id=956 |
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Stapel, C.J. (2008). No Longer Alone - A Resource Manual for Rural Sexual Minority Youth and the Adults Who Serve Them
http://www.nyacyouth.org/docs/ruralyouth/NoLongerAlone.pdf |
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The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, Why Not the Best? Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2008, The Commonwealth Fund, July 2008
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The Guide to Community Preventive Services - What Works to Promote Health? (2005). Oxford University Press
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Too Great A Burden: America's Families at Risk. (2007). Families USA, Washington, DC.
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Transportation Solutions to Create Active, Healthy Counties - Collaboration for Childhood Obesity Prevention. (2008). National Association of Counties; Issue Brief #1.
http://www.naco.org/Content/ContentGroups/Programs_and_Projects/Health_Care/July2008.pdf |
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Uninsured and Dying Because of It: Updating the Institute of Medicine Analysis on the Impact of Uninsurance on Mortality
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411588_uninsured_dying.pdf |
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Yoon, J. & Nickel, J. (2008). Reentry Partnerships: A Guide for States & Faith-Based and Community Organizations. New York: Council of State Governments Justice Center.
http://www.usdoj.gov/fbci/docs/reentry-partnership.pdf |
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Your Medicare Rights and Protections, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Baltimore, MD.
http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/10112.pdf |
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