February 17, 2005 | Read Time: 1 minute
To Improve Health and Health Care: Volume VIII, edited by Stephen L. Isaacs and James R. Knickman, analyzes the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s efforts to improve the nation’s well-being. Written by journalists, foundation officials, and historians, the volume examines some of the grant maker’s programs, such as its SmokeLess States project, involving statewide coalitions to control tobacco use, and the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention, an effort to reduce gun deaths in some of that city’s most dangerous areas. The book, the eighth in a series, also describes how the foundation evolved since its creation in 1936 and how it developed a system that uses outside groups and experts to administer its programs.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 989 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94103-1741; (317) 572-3986 or (800) 956-7739; fax (317) 572-4002; http://www.josseybass.com; 206 pages; $25.
