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Prevention for a Healthier California: Investments in Disease Prevention Yield Significant Savings, Stronger Communities

The Prevention for a Healthier California: Investments in Disease Prevention Yield Significant Savings, Stronger Communities report finds that if California were to invest in community-based disease prevention programs both the state and private health insurance payers could save significant amounts in health care costs annually.

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Bob's Blog: Prevention as Cure

A recent New York Times essay (“Campaign Myth: Prevention as a Cure”) by H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., left me scratching my head.

California County Scorecard of Children's Well-Being: Creating Healthier Communities for Our Future

The Children Now 2008 California County Scorecard of Children's Well-Being: Creating Healthier Communities for Our Future is an innovative public resource that measures counties' progress in enabling children to be healthy, safe and ready to learn in an effort to promote inquiry and action.

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The California Endowment awards grants to organizations which support our mission “to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.”

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The Center for Healthy Communities (CHC), builds leadership and capacity within the nonprofit health sector to mobilize communities for social change.
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Building Healthy Communities: Strategic Vision Web Site Online

In 2010, The California Endowment will embark on a new, 10-year strategic direction: Building Healthy Communities. Our goal is to support the development of communities where kids and youth are healthy, safe and ready to learn. We have created a special Web site to answer questions about The Endowment and changes in its programmatic direction.

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