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These non-traditional settings could include community centers, pre-school and non-traditional school environments, child and older adult foster care facilities, older adult day care facilities, half-way homes, assisted living and long-term care facilities.

In essence, the objectives of the program are all in conjunction with the idea of health promotion and disease prevention, as well as improving the quality of patients by successfully and continuously their symptoms.

In addition, the program also focuses on research studies that concentrates on symptom management so as to support and improve the existing understanding of symptoms and at the same time, develop new strategies that will drastically improve the quality of life of people who have been exposed to non-traditional settings.

The NIH and its partner agencies are ready to administer funds in the amount of $275,000 to support the initiatives under this program.

The institutions and organizations who will be deemed eligible to submit an application under the Environmental Exposures and Health: Exploration of Non-Traditional Settings Program are the following:

a) Higher Education Institutions such as Public and Private Institutions of Higher Education

b) Nonprofit Organizations

c) For-profit Organizations Such as Small Businesses

d) State Governments, County Governments, City or Township Governments, Special District Governments, and Indian/Native American Tribal Governments

e) Independent School Districts, Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities, Native American Tribal Organizations, and Faith-based or Community-based Organizations

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Biomedical and Behavioral Research Innovations to Ensure Equity in Maternal and Child Health
the National Institutes of Health has recently partnered with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to establish the Biomedical and Behavioral Research Innovations to Ensure Equity (BRITE) in Maternal and Child Health Grant Program.

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Cancer Education Grants Program
The National Cancer Institute has developed the Cancer Education Grants Program wherein it seeks to financially support innovative educational efforts that would contribute to the reduction of cancer incidences, morbidity and mortality rates; as well as the improvement of the quality of life of surviving cancer patients.

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Genomic Advances to Wound Repair
The National Institutes of Health has coordinated with the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) to establish a program called Genomic Advances to Wound Repair in an effort to jump-start research studies that have the potential to deepen the understanding of genomic mechanism associated with the repair and development of wounds that are chronic in nature, which implies that these wounds have failed to enter into a reparative process after three months.

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Health Care Innovation Challenge
The Centers for Medicare and & Medicaid Services has recently established the Health Care Innovation Challenge in an attempt to solicit proposals to establish interesting new models of service delivery that can potentially deliver the three-part aim of better health, better health care, and finally, lower costs through the improved quality of Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Program.

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