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Aetna Foundation Awards Grants to Support Healthy Eating and Exercise in Local Communities

Release Date:

12/18/2015

More than $3 million will go to 75 nonprofit organizations as part of GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities, a program that helps healthy food choices and active living take root in underserved communities.

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Food Systems

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CrainsNY Looks at Helmsley-Supported DATA2GO.NYC

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12/18/2015

New data reveals a yawning chasm in life expectancy among the city’s residents, with startling implications. But, surprisingly, the relationship between life expectancy and health insurance across neighborhoods is not statistically significant,...

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Community Development

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What's Driving Variation in New York's Hospital Spending and Prices? (NY State Health Foundation)

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12/17/2015

James R. Knickman, President and CEO of the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), writes about price variation in the New York health care system.

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Commonwealth Fund Advice: It’s Important to Read the Fine Print of Healthcare Coverage

Release Date:

12/16/2015

Findings from the most recent Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Tracking Survey reveal that two of five adults with private coverage are unaware that their health plan fully covered preventive care services—and fully half of privately...

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Aetna Foundation: Closing the Health Divide, One Community at a Time

Release Date:

12/16/2015

Among the greatest challenges we're faced with today, is the growing health divide in underserved communities, writes Garth Graham, M.D., president of Aetna Foundation.

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Century Foundation Releases Proposals to Strengthen ACA

Release Date:

12/15/2015

Health care experts Harold Pollack and Timothy Jost identify 19 steps that federal, state, and local actors can take to ensure that health care in America is accessible and consumer friendly.

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The Century Foundation

Harvard University, Wildlife Conservation Society Launch ‘Planetary Health Alliance’ with Support from Rockefeller

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12/14/2015

The Planetary Health Alliance is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, following on the recent release of the groundbreaking Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health, which outlines key opportunities to advance public health...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Amy Berman, of the Hartford Foundation, to Be Honored with Grantmakers In Health's Terrance Keenan Award

Release Date:

12/14/2015

Amy Berman, Senior Program Officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation, will receive Grantmakers In Health's (GIH) 2016 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy.

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Scorecard: New York Ranked 13th in Overall State of Health

Release Date:

12/11/2015

New York may be ranked 3rd for per capita health funding, but it is 40th when it comes to physical activity according to the 26th American’s Health Rankings Annual Report. In addition, New York was ranked 13th in the nation on a separate scorecard...

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Donald Moulds of Commonwealth Fund Joins Grantmakers in Health Board

Release Date:

12/11/2015

Donald Moulds, executive vice president for programs at The Commonwealth Fund, was elected to a three-year term of the board of directors of Grantmakers in Health.

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