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Creating a Health-Promoting Work Environment

Timi Gustafson, R.D. | Posted 12.31.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Health Care Costs, Healthy Work Environment, Health Promotion, Health Programs, Wellness Programs, Health and Wellness Workplace, Work Wellness Programs, Healthy in the Workplace, Health Incentives Workplace, Health at Work, Workplace Health Care, Workplace Health, Work Wellness, Personal Health, Health Incentives Work, Health Work, Health Care Work, Health Workplace, Healthy Living News
Timi Gustafson, R.D.

More and more companies are enrolling their workforce in health and wellness programs to cut staggering health care costs, reduce absenteeism and foster productivity as well as morale and loyalty, according to several studies on recent changes in employer-based health care policies.

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Sustained Strategic Philanthropy

Jane Wales | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Food Programs, U Penn, Strategic Giving, Preventing Foreclosures, High Impact Philanthropy in the Downturn: Focus on Housing, Health Programs, Health & Hunger, Philanthropy, Nonprofits, Sustainability, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, Health Care, Impact News
Jane Wales

Philanthropists can get the biggest bang for their buck in the current economic climate by helping with three basic needs: Preventing foreclosures, sustaining health programs and ensuring access to food.

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The Global Fund Seeks Additional Grants from the G8 in Hopes of Helping Millions More

Michel D. Kazatchkine | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Foreign Aid, G8, Health, Global Fund, Health Programs, L'Aquila, Malaria, Funding Gap, Tuberculosis, World News
Michel D. Kazatchkine

It is the very success of hundreds of health programs supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that has produced the surge in demand for fresh grants.

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Gender Apartheid

Amy Coen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Corruption, Foreign Aid, Women's Rights, Fgm, Apartheid, Foreign Assistance, Ethiopia, Violation, Prenatal, Conflict, Prevention, Africa, Aids, Racism, Female, Development, Developing Countries, Public Health, Hiv, Gender, Ngo, Contraceptives, Female Genital Mutilation, Health, Sex, Health Programs, Hospitals, Communities, Sexual Education, Condoms, Healthy Living News
Amy Coen

Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.

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