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January 3, 2012
Promoting Wellness, Health and Grant Awarded to Help Safety-Net Hospitals Adopt Integrated Care Aetna Inc., with support from the Aetna Foundation, has awarded a $250,000 research grant to the National Public Health and Hospital Institute (NPHHI) to evaluate the readiness of the nation's safety-net hospitals to become fully integrated health systems for the millions of underserved patients who rely on them to meet all their health care needs. The goal of the one-year study is to help safety-net institutions restructure their services to provide seamless, efficient patient-centered care that improves health outcomes and moderates costs. Our news release provides more details.NPHHI is the research affiliate of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH). Call for Abstracts for Special Volume on Successful Obesity Interventions Meharry Medical College's The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (JHCPU) has announced a Call for Abstracts for its upcoming special volume, Obesity Interventions with Underserved U.S. Populations: Evidence and Directions, to be published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in early 2013. Sponsored by the Aetna Foundation, this peer-reviewed special publication will feature scholarly papers that highlight a range of successful anti-obesity interventions in minority and other medically underserved communities in the U.S. The editors have expressed interest in abstracts in three categories:
Deadline for abstracts is January 23, 2012. Full invited papers will be due on March 15, 2012. Abstract guidelines and the criteria for selection can be found on the JHCPU website. The editor of Obesity Interventions with Underserved U.S. Populations is Virginia M. Brennan, PhD, MA, of Meharry Medical College. The guest editors are Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Ruth Zambrana, PhD, of the University of Maryland.
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