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Patrizi, Patricia A. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2010
The author discusses an assessment of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's work over a 20-year period to improve end-of-life care in America. The case illustrates the evolution of the strategy from one focused on a multiyear randomized control trial of a series of hospital-based interventions that produced findings of "no effects" into several…
Descriptors: Terminal Illness, Health Services, Hospices (Terminal Care), Patients
Sareen, Harvinder; Visencio, Diane; Russ, Shirley; Halfon, Neal – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2005
If early childhood systems are to be effective at the population level then they must be able to provide family-centered care to all the racial, ethnic and cultural groups that they serve. Despite major policy driven and technological advances in healthcare, health disparities across different races and ethnicities persist. For example, the infant…
Descriptors: Pediatrics, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Differences, Parent Attitudes