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- What happens when your zip code threatens your health? Broadband access is often framed as a tech issue, but in some rural communities it’s a matter of health equity. Broadband internet is so limited in some areas that patients can’t use remote monitoring devices, hospitals can’t support telehealth, and electronic health records slow down care instead of streamlining it.On this week’s episode of…May 2025Social/Structural Determinants
- Helping someone less fortunate feels good, right? But when people from rich countries show up in low- and middle-income countries dispensing goodwill and largesse, their efforts may, at best, be too little and, at worst, could do harm. Dr. Kirk Scirto, a family practice physician in Buffalo, New York, has devoted more than two decades to trying to help others through global health promotion…February 2023Interventions, Global Health
- In this plenary session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, panelists conducted a Q&A session with audience members revolving a series of questions on how lower-income minority communities are impacted by climate change and natural disasters, as well as what the future could look like for these populations. #P4HEsummit2022December 2022Climate Change
- Are you working to promote economic mobility for children and families? Are you curious about how cross-sector partnership can address systemic challenges? Want to learn more about how housing and education can come together to advance mobility from poverty? This toolkit is intended as a resource for individuals and organizations seeking to build and advance cross-sector partnerships to…November 2022Services & Programs, Social/Structural Determinants
- There are many common myths about how to end homelessness. At RWJF’s Evidence for Action program, we wanted to test what truly works. We funded Sarah Gillespie and Dr. Devlin Hanson at the Urban Institute to conduct an evaluation of the Denver SIB program. What we learned is that supportive housing has several benefits. It can help end the homelessness-to-jail cycle, free up public resources for…June 2022Healthy Housing
- Hospital at Home (HaH) has been demonstrated to be effective in a variety of settings and patient populations.1, 2 However, it is unknown whether HaH is feasible or effective for socioeconomically disadvantaged patients. Our aim is to determine whether HaH services were received by disadvantaged patients, and if so, whether effectiveness differs for patients depending on socioeconomic status (SES…April 2022Environment/Context
- Rural communities throughout the United States lack access to health care. While only 14 percent of Americans—almost 46 million people—live in rural areas, rural communities represent nearly two-thirds of primary care health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) in the country. This amounts to more than 4,100 primary care HPSAs in rural areas. A 2018 report by Pew Research Center found that the…February 2022Interventions, Services & Programs, Social/Structural Determinants, Access
- There is an urgent need to extend essential services and offerings to those who are disadvantaged due to socio-economic factors, racial injustice, advanced age, and other differentiators that are biologic or societal in nature. Microsoft is working closely with our customers, public health teams, and partners across the globe to achieve more for the communities they serve. Currently we are…June 2021Policy & Law, Social/Structural Determinants, Environmental/Community Health, Racism
- Immunization inequity contributes to negative health outcomes for both individuals and the population as a whole. Equitable immunization systems not only prevent potentially devastating vaccine-preventable illnesses, but also generate health more broadly by attracting people, including marginalized populations, into healthcare to improve other health inequalities. While longstanding inequities in…June 2021COVID-19/Coronavirus, Vaccine Access and Uptake, Social/Structural Determinants
- Cross-sector collaboration and systems alignment can address social determinants of health, improve family well-being, and create a more equitable society. In attempts to align Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Medicaid to promote health through its trauma-informed program, The Building Wealth and Health Network (The Network) encountered three major challenges to meeting those…March 2021Medicaid, Social Environment, Systemic Determinants
- This paper explores the intersection of poverty, housing, and health among low-income weatherization program participants in the United States. These income-qualifying programs seek to reduce energy burden, which is the proportion of a household’s annual income spent on residential energy. These programs produce secondary benefits by reducing material deprivation, health inequalities, and energy…March 2021Healthy Housing
- Primary health care offers a cost–effective route to achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However, primary health-care systems are weak in many low- and middle-income countries and often fail to provide comprehensive, people-centred, integrated care. We analysed the primary health-care systems in 20 low- and middle-income countries using a semi-grounded approach. Options for strengthening…November 2020Services & Programs, Global Health
- This blog post covers a Dutch participatory research project called The Workspace, a study which brought policymakers together with unemployed people to share perspectives on municipal initiatives to encourage unemployed people's participation in society. The article outlines how The Workspace encouraged dialogue and furthered the goals of action participatory research.October 2020Structural Violence, Systemic Determinants
- The rapid growth of the global aging population has raised attention to the health and healthcare needs of older adults. The purpose of this mini-review is to: (1) elucidate the complex factors affecting the relationship between chronological age, socio-economic status (SES), access to care, and healthy aging using a SES-focused framework; (2) present examples of interventions from across the…June 2020Aging and Life Course
- Group model building (GMB) is a qualitative method aimed at engaging stakeholders to collectively consider the causes of complex problems. Tackling inequities in community nutrition is one such complex problem, as the causes are driven by a variety of interactions between individual factors, social structures, local environments and the global food system. This methods paper describes a GMB…May 2020Sustainable Development
- The relationship between housing and health is more than just the four walls that shelter an individual or family each night. More broadly, the link between health and housing is a result of influences from both the individual home unit and a variety of structural and societal factors within a neighborhood. These elements have the potential to provide safety, recreation, access to transportation…May 2020Housing Discrimination, Social/Structural Determinants, Environment/Context, Systemic Determinants, Healthy Housing, Racism
- As COVID-19-related quarantines were being implemented across America, homelessness researchers were estimating the immediate needs of people experiencing homelessness. They concluded that $11.5 billion is necessary for 400,000 new shelter beds needed to accommodate everyone who is unsheltered and to ensure appropriate social distancing, andthe creation of quarantine locations for the sick and…March 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus, Social/Structural Determinants
- Many public and subsidized housing developments in the US are aging and in need of significant repairs. Some observers worry that their poor condition threatens the health of residents. We evaluated a recent renovation of public housing that was undertaken through the transfer of six housing developments from the New York City Housing Authority to a public-private partnership. We studied whether…February 2020Healthy Housing
- While the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness has decreased over the last ten years, the number of older adults experiencing sheltered homelessness is on the rise, as we report in Housing America’s Older Adults 2019. Incomes for the lowest-income older adults have not risen as fast as rents, leaving a growing number of older adult renters at risk for homelessness as they…November 2019Environment/Context
- Digital technologies shape the way in which individuals and health systems interact to promote health and treat illness. Their propensity to exacerbate inequalities is increasingly being highlighted as a concern for public health. Personal, contextual and technological factors all interact and determine uptake and consequent use of digital technologies for health. This article reviews evidence on…October 2019Systemic Determinants
- Housing is a major pathway through which health disparities emerge and are sustained over time. However, no existing unified conceptual model has comprehensively elucidated the relationship between housing and health equity with attention to the full range of harmful exposures, their cumulative burden and their historical production. We synthesized literature from a diverse array of disciplines…September 2019Housing Discrimination, Social/Structural Determinants, Environment/Context, Healthy Housing, Racism
- The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends permanent supportive housing with Housing First (Housing First programs) to promote health equity for people who are experiencing homelessness and have a disabling condition. Evidence shows Housing First programs decrease homelessness, increase housing stability, and improve quality of life for homeless persons living…June 2019HIV, Healthy Housing
- Our work is based on the idea that health and education outcomes are intrinsically linked. We seek to improve these outcomes collectively and across multiple projects. We developed ETR’s Health Equity Framework to help us, and others, think about improving interrelated outcomes from multiple, overlapping perspectives. (author abstract) #P4HEsummit2022April 2019Early Childhood Education
- Homelessness represents an enduring public health threat facing communities across the developed world. Children, families, and marginalized adults face life course implications of housing insecurity, while communities struggle to address the extensive array of needs within heterogeneous homeless populations. Trends in homelessness remain stubbornly high despite policy initiatives to end…April 2019Environment/Context, Systemic Determinants
- Fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake is inversely associated with obesity, which is disproportionately high in urban food deserts and low-income populations, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants. This cross sectional study sought to examine factors associated with food desert SNAP recipients’ F&V purchases and weight status in multi-person households. Socio-…February 2019Environmental/Community Health
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