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Given the generally higher incidence of obesity, hypertension and other lifestyle ills among African Americans, the church is in a powerful position to do a lot of good. In the 1990s, Marci Campbell, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, helped launch a four-year trial called North Carolina Black Churches United for Better Health. The project signed up 50 churches with a goal of helping the 2,500 parishioners eat better, exercise more and generally improve their fitness. The measures taken included having pastors preach health in their sermons and getting churches to serve healthier foods...
...diabetic employees, based on their specific needs and unique barriers to care. Today Amica covers all co-pays on necessary diabetes drugs but only for patients who attend five key annual preventive-health checkups, including an eye exam and a foot exam. Within eight months of the program's launch in 2008, about half of Amica's diabetic employees were enrolled. It was a win-win situation: members had saved nearly $35,000 in out-of-pocket expenses, and Amica's health-care costs on compliant members dropped 50% within a year. Best of all, unlike the nonparticipants...
...together with Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, will participate in the initial launch of the incentive packages this month. The other schools will follow suit in March...
...Flandres neighborhood - a melting pot of 30 different ethnic groups, with a 20% unemployment rate and over 60% social housing. After hearing about 104 from a French photographer friend, Tricky - the man behind the 1990s music revolution known as trip-hop - decided to come to Flandres in January and launch a project to seek out and record young local talent...
...last capital campaign, which ended in 1999, raised a record-breaking $2.6 billion ($3.3 billion in today’s dollars)—then the largest total in the history of higher education. The University had intended to gear up for another campaign with a 2006 or 2007 launch date, but the 2006 resignation of then-University President Lawrence H. Summers forced Harvard to put a temporary hold on its plans, at least until a new president had been chosen...