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Let’s Re-Place the Health Opportunity Maps

WEBMapping “Opportunity,” Missing “Place”. A variety of measures and data resources have been developed over the years to help us assess and map the social, …

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Forming Partnerships With Public Health Departments, Part 1: Why …

WEBThe Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII), a collaborative of 10 health departments, has an excellent framework showing the drivers of health and …

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Using Art to Create Community at a Clinic

WEBThe idea was to extend the community wellness mission of People’s Center beyond its walls and into a Minneapolis neighborhood through art, creativity, and culture. …

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Approaching Partnerships Between Health Care

WEBKnowing that employment status and income are key social determinants of health, Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation was committed to ensuring jobs …

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Getting Competitive Health Care Systems to Work Together For …

WEBThe 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) ushered in a new requirement that every three years, nonprofit hospitals must conduct a community health needs …

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Health Care and Community Development Partnerships in

WEBFor health care institutions and community development organizations that focus on low-income communities’ social determinants of health, this year has been a …

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Redlining and Mental Health: Connecting the Dots Across

WEBPoverty, Place, and Mental Health. As the past decade of healthy communities efforts across the country has shown, poverty is also highly correlated with poor physical …

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“Why Would a Hospital Do This

WEBHanaa Hamdi is the director of health impact investment strategies and partnerships at New Jersey Community Capital, the state’s largest CDFI.Michellene …

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The Six Steps to an HIA — Shelterforce Shelterforce

WEBA health impact assessment is a six-step, systematic approach to assessing the likely health consequences — good and bad — of a proposed action.. Screening. …

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Entrepreneurship as a Path to Health

WEBHaving a financial cushion leads to security and stability, and generally lower stress levels. But entrepreneurship in itself brings a sense of control over one’s own …

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Why Organizations Should Invest in Home Repairs to Improve …

WEBIn the 2017 American Housing Survey, which was sent to over 80,000 units across the country, we found that more than one-third, or 35.8 percent, of households …

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Arts, Culture, and Community Mental Health — Shelterforce …

WEBArts and Culture Can Help Address Specific Community Mental Health Concerns. In addition to trauma, the public health sector is responding to pervasive …

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Blame Policies, Not Places, for Poor Health

WEBEmphasizing how place matters has become very common recently. While true, this emphasis can inappropriately put blame and responsibility for health outcomes …

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A Bad Mix: Utility Shut-Offs and Chronic Illnesses

WEBThese lead to adverse social, health, and environmental consequences such as thermal discomfort, the disruption of family routines during a shut-off, and …

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Health Sector Speaking Up for Housing Policy Change

WEBIn partnership with Enterprise Community Partners, a national affordable housing nonprofit, HAN has held two federal Housing for Health Policy Day s in the past …

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What Happens When a CDC Pivots to a Health-First Focus

WEBIn September, Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation officially released a community health needs assessment for the 6-square-mile Cleveland …

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Health and the Spaces Inbetween — Shelterforce Shelterforce

WEBLooking through that lens, it actually becomes quite clear that our entire recent issue, about “third places” (gathering spots that are neither home nor work) in …

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Affordable Housing In Urban Centers Not Enough

WEBMatthew Brian Hersh. Matthew Brian Hersh served as senior editor at Shelterforce from March 2008 to October 2012. He studied English at Rutgers University …

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Target: Problem Properties

WEBHANDS also is working with city planner Alan Mallach and the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey to try to rewrite the state law …

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Interview with Mark D. Constantine, president and CEO of …

WEB#189 Winter 2017-18 — Health . Interview with Mark D. Constantine, president and CEO of Richmond Memorial Health Foundation. Mark Constantine gives us a view of one …

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