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2011-05-01
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies;
We study the effects of urban environment on childhood obesity by concentrating on the effects of walking trails and crime close to children's homes on their BMI and obesity status. We use a unique dataset, which combines information on recreational trails in Indianapolis with data on violent crimes and anthropomorphic and diagnostic data from children's clinic visits between 1996 and 2005. We find that having a trail near a home reduces children's weight. However, the effect depends on the amount of nearby violent crimes. Significant reductions occur only in low crime areas and trails could have opposite effects on weight in high crime areas. These effects are primarily among boys, older children, and children who live in higher income neighborhoods. Evaluated at the mean length of trails this effect for older children in no crime areas would be a reduction of two pounds of the body weight. Falsification tests using planned trails instead of existing trails, show that trails are more likely to be located in areas with heavier children, suggesting that our results on effects of trails represent a lower bound.
2000-01-01
Annie E. Casey Foundation;
Provides an overview of former Mayor Stephen Goldsmith's successful efforts at urban systems reform, community building, and neighborhood revitalization from 1992-1999 in Indianapolis.
2008-01-01
Annie E. Casey Foundation;
Outlines Casey's early investment in the Indianapolis mayor's charter initiative as part of an effort to support innovative but as yet unproven programs, seed results, and attract co-investment. Describes the impact of program-related investments.
1999-01-01
Lilly Endowment, Inc.;
Contains board chair and president's message, program information, community development, religion, and education grantee profiles, grants list, and financial statements.
2000-01-01
Lilly Endowment, Inc.;
Contains board chair and president's message, program information, community development, religion, and education grantee profiles, grants list, and financial statements.
2002-01-01
Lilly Endowment, Inc.;
Contains board chair and president's message, program information, community development, religion, and education grantee profiles, grants list, and financial statements.
2003-01-01
Lilly Endowment, Inc.;
Contains board chair and president's message, program information, community development, religion, and education grantee profiles, grants list, and financial statements.
2005-01-01
Lilly Endowment, Inc.;
Contains board chair and president's message, program information, community development, religion, and education grantee profiles, grants list, and financial statements.
2006-01-01
Lilly Endowment, Inc.;
Contains board chair and president's message, program information, community development, religion, and education grantee profiles, grants list, and financial statements.
2010-02-01
Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest);
This report presents information on the clients and agencies served by The Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc. The information is drawn from a national study, Hunger in America 2010, conducted in 2009 for Feeding America (FA) (formerly America's Second Harvest), the nation's largest organization of emergency food providers. The national study is based on completed inperson interviews with more than 62,000 clients served by the FA national network, as well as on completed questionnaires from more than 37,000 FA agencies. The study summarized below focuses on emergency food providers and their clients who are supplied with food by food banks in the FA network. Key Findings: The FA system served by The Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc provides emergency food for an estimated 160,900 different people annually.43% of the members of households served by The Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc are children under 18 years old (Table 5.3.2).35% of households include at least one employed adult (Table 5.7.1).Among households with children, 84% are food insecure and 33% are food insecure with very low food security (Table 6.1.1.1).45% of clients served by The Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc report having to choose between paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel (Table 6.5.1).33% had to choose between paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care (Table 6.5.1).32% of households served by The Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc report having at least one household member in poor health (Table 8.1.1)The Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc included approximately 331 agencies at the administration of this survey, of which 249 have responded to the agency survey. Of the responding agencies, 194 had at least one food pantry, soup kitchen, or shelter.73% of pantries, 68% of kitchens, and 39% of shelters are run by faith-based agencies affiliated with churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious organizations (Table 10.6.1).Among programs that existed in 2006, 87% of pantries, 77% of kitchens, and 50% of shelters of The Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc reported that there had been an increase since 2006 in the number of clients who come to their emergency food program sites (Table 10.8.1).Food banks are by far the single most important source of food for agencies with emergency food providers, accounting for 61% of the food distributed by pantries, 41% of the food distributed by kitchens, and 33% of the food distributed by shelters (Table 13.1.1).As many as 91% of pantries, 82% of kitchens, and 74% of shelters in The Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Inc use volunteers (Table 13.2.1).
2009-04-30
Center for Studying Health System Change;
Examines whether specialty hospitals draw well-insured patients away from general and safety-net hospitals, reducing their ability to cross-subsidize less profitable services and uncompensated care, in three cities. Notes challenges and implications.
2008-04-16
Center for Studying Health System Change;
Examines from a community-based perspective the scope of the shortages in the public health workforce; contributing factors such as inadequate funding, salaries, and benefits; and strategies for training, recruiting, and retaining public health workers.
