Publications & Reports
| 12th Report on Carcinogens - June 2011 http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/roc12 |
| A New Way to Talk About The Social Determinants of Health http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/vpmessageguide20101029.pdf |
| America's Health Rankings 2008 http://www.americashealthrankings.org/2008/index.html |
| 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 |
| Assuring Healthy Caregivers - A Public Health Approach to Translating Research into Practice: The RE-AIM Framework http://www.cdc.gov/aging/caregiving/index.htm |
| 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 |
| CDC Seeks to Protect Older Adults With Shingles Vaccine Message http://www.chronicdisease.org/files/public/shinglesFINAL3_21_08.pdf |
| CDC Urges Older Adults to Improve Health, Increase Longevity, through Smoking Cessation http://www.chronicdisease.org/files/public/smokingFINAL3_21_08.pdf |
| 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 |
| Community Programs to Promote Youth Development. (2002). Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington, DC. http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3775/5444.aspx |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| DeVol, R. & Bedroussian, A. (2007). An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease. The Milken Institute. http://www.milkeninstitute.org/pdf/chronic_disease_report.pdf |
| Education in Chronically Poor Rural Areas Lags Across Generations http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/publications/IB-Ulrich-Education-Poor-Areas.pdf |
| Geography Matters: Child Well-Being in the States. (2008). Every Child Matters Education Fund, Washington, DC. http://www.everychildmatters.org/images/stories/geomatters.pdf |
| Griffin-Wiesner, J. (2005). The Journey of Community Change - A How-to Guide for Healthy Communities+Healthy Youth Initiatives. Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN. http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Community-Change-How-Communities-Healthy/dp/1574828614/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201634030&sr=1-1 |
| Growing Bigger Better - Lessons From Experience Corps' Expansion in Five Cities (2008). Public/Private Ventures (P/PV), Philadelphia, PA. http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/239_publication.pdf |
| 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. http://carseyinstitute.unh.edu/publications/Report_PlaceMatters.pdf |
| 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 |
| Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion. (2004). Institute of Medicine, National Academies Press, Washington, DC. http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3775/3827/19723.aspx |
| 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. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus07.pdf |
| Healthier Communities Through Redevelopment: Rebuilding Neighborhoods for Better Nutrition and Active Living http://www.nplanonline.org/sites/phlpnet.org/files/RedevelopmentPrimer_FINAL_Web_20110307.pdf |
| 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 |
| Healthy Women, Healthy Babies. (2008). Trust for America's Health, Washington, DC. http://healthyamericans.org/reports/files/BirthOutcomesShort0608.pdf |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| National Rural Assembly Final Report June 2007 http://ola.wkkf.org/RPRP/pdf/National_Rural_Assembly_Final_Report.pdf |
| 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 |
| plain language thersaurus for Health Communications, Draft Version 3 (2007). National Center for Health Marketing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), DHHS http://www.nphic.org/files/editor/file/thesaurus_1007.pdf |
| 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 http://www.capc.org/Rural-Toolkit-READER.pdf |
| Reach Higher, America - Overcoming Crisis in the U.S. Workforce. (2008). Report of the National Commission on Adult Literacy, New York, NY. http://www.nationalcommissiononadultliteracy.org/ReachHigherAmerica/ReachHigher.pdf |
| 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 http://www.macses.ucsf.edu/News/Reaching%20for%20a%20Healthier%20Life.pdf |
| Rural Obesity - Strategies to Support Rural Counties in Building Capacity. (2008). National Association of Counties (NACo), Washington, DC. http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=health&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=26506 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Snow, L. (2001). The Organization of Hope: A Workbook for Rural Asset-Based Community Development. ACTA Publications, Chicago, IL. http://www.actapublications.com/ |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=692682 |
| The Foundations of Lifelong Health Are Built in Early Childhood - July 2010 http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/reports_and_working_papers/foundations-of-lifelong-health/ |
| The Guide to Community Preventive Services - What Works to Promote Health? (2005). Oxford University Press http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/?view=usa&ci=0195151097&cp=24510 |
| The Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative Evaluation Final Report (2009). Coffey Consulting, LLC, and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. for the US Department of Labor. http://www.dol.gov/cfbci/20090113.pdf |
| Too Great A Burden: America's Families at Risk. (2007). Families USA, Washington, DC. http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/too-great-a-burden.pdf |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Your Medicare Rights and Protections, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Baltimore, MD. http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/10112.pdf |
