To Improve Health and Health Care is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's biannual anthology, focusing on the pressing health and health care issues facing the country. This volume covers some of the most important topics in public health, preventative medicine, and health services. Readers will find an in-depth look into the programs funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, providing policy makers, practitioners, and interested members of the public a valuable perspective to inform strategy for the coming years.

As part of the Foundation's efforts to inform the public, this ongoing anthology of the RWJF provides an update on the latest developments and advances taking place in the field of health, bringing readers up to speed on where we are, and where we still need to go.

• Understand the new developments in reducing childhood obesity
• Examine innovations in health care delivery
• Learn how RWJF programs are making a difference to patients and providers

Since 1972, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health. To further its mission of improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation strives to foster innovation, develop ideas, disseminate information, and enable committed people to devote their energies to improving the nation's well-being. To Improve Health and Health Care describes the latest outcomes and progress, for a complete overview of the American health care system.

RESEARCH FOR OUR CHANGING HEALTH ENVIRONMENT

TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE, VOLUME XVI
THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ANTHOLOGY

Since 1972, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the nation's health. To further its mission of improving the health and health care of all Americans and its vision of advancing a culture of health, the Foundation strives to foster innovation, develop ideas, disseminate information, and enable committed people to devote their energies to improving the nation's health. To Improve Health and Health Care, the anthology series of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, offers an in-depth look at the programs it funds. Created for policy makers, practitioners, and interested members of the public, the Anthology series offers valuable lessons for those developing plans and programs in the health field and related fields.

The cases discussed in this volume of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology provide a critical analysis of the Foundation's activities and how it tackles health and health care issues. Written by some of the country's leading journalists, as well as experts from within the Foundation itself, this volume focuses on two themes: finding innovative ideas and people through the Foundation's pioneer portfolio and the Foundation's efforts to reduce childhood obesity. It contains chapters on

Seeking innovation

• How the Foundation gets ideas
• The pioneer portfolio
• The Open Notes program
• Using video games to improve health

Childhood obesity

• The Foundation's approach to reducing childhood obesity
• Childhood obesity research
• Improving the built environment
• The Healthy Schools Program
• The Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities program

Local initiatives

• The 211 LA Pediatric Developmental Screening and Care Coordination program

The foreword by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey discusses how the Foundation arrived at its new vision of advancing a culture of health throughout the nation.