Georgia Health Policy Center
Philanthropic Collaborative Publications
Issue Briefs and Reports
Georgia's Youth: Overweight and Under-Active
A statewide assessmen of the physical fitness and physical activity levels of Georgia's 5th and 7th graders.
The Georgia Youth Fitness Assessment (GYFA) studies fitness and physical activity in our youth, as part of an effort to identify ways to reverse the trends in childhood obesity and sedentary behavior in Georgia. The GYFA gives participating students and their parents feedback on an individual child’s health, while also providing school officials and policymakers with an accurate picture of fitness levels among Georgia’s children and youth.
Framework for Community-Based Cancer Prevention and Control: This document outlines a framework for designing a community-based cancer prevention program, offers tips for how to best use it, and suggests additional information and resources for communities that wish to tailor it to their own unique needs and priorities.
Improving Rural Health: How Healthy are Rural Georgians? An examination by the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia on the health status of rural Georgians. The fact that Georgians living in rural areas are not as healthy as those living in urban areas is a major source of concern as is the fact that no county in Georgia has an “excellent” health status.
Evaluates the impact of the funding and support by the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia and the Georgia Department of Community Health on select school health programs.Philanthropic Symposium on School Health: A highlight of presentations and discussions during the Philanthropic Symposium on School Health held October 16, 2000 in Atlanta, GA.
Preventing Overweight Children – A Brief for Foundations: An examination of evidence-based intervention related to nutrition and physical activity from several perspectives: policymaking, health communications, and behavioral and environmental changes.
Preventing Overweight Children in Georgia Opportunities for Foundations and Grantmakers: These papers examined evidence-based interventions related to nutrition and physical activity from several perspectives: policymaking, health communications, and behavioral and environmental changes.
School Health Initiative Evaluation Outcomes: This report describes the evaluation methodology and findings from six of the original Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia school health grantees awarded additional funding from the Healthcare Georgia Foundation to enhance their school health program capacity.
Spotlight on School Health Programs: An Evaluation of Outcomes: This report describes the evaluation methodology and summarizes the findings. It also offers in-depth snapshots of supported school health activities to illustrate the program's impact
Summary Report: School Health Matching Grants Conference: This report summarizes the presentations made during the two-day conference with the Georgia Department of Community Health and the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia.
Update Philanthropic Collaborative Awards School Health Matching Grants: This second issue of Update highlights a new initiative of the Collaborative: the School Health Matching Grants Program. It summarizes recent awards and highlights key features of funded projects.
Update Philanthropic Collaborative Holds Kickoff Meeting: The Update focuses on the kickoff meeting of the Collaborative and two priority program areas selected by the Collaborative for initial emphasis over the next several months.
Update: Philanthropic Collaborative Tackles Childhood Obesity: The goal of the Collaborative’s fourth major initiative is to inform, engage, and energize Georgia’s foundations and other grantmakers in order to reduce the incidence of childhood obesity in the state.
Update: Philanthropic Collaborative Promotes Rural Health: This Rural Health Initiative focuses on improving access and health status and reducing health disparities for underserved populations in rural areas.
Why Provide Health Care to Children In Schools? A focus on the fact that Georgia’s children are less healthy than their counterparts in most other states
Events
Philanthropic Symposium on School Health
A highlight of presentations and discussions during the Philanthropic Symposium on School Health held October 16, 2000 in Atlanta, Ga. The Symposium was designed to provide members with background information about school health. Participants were also introduced to a newly initiated matching grants program.
Poster Presentation
Public/Private Partnerships in Community Efforts to Improve School Health
The focus of this research is to determine the effectiveness of public/private partnerships in expanding access to care for low income and medically underserved school-aged children, and to identify best practices and lessons learned in 13 Georgia communities.