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The Picture of Health

The United States spends nearly twice as much per person on health care as other rich nations, but we’re no healthier for it. Americans are sicker and die younger than people in other high …

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Parents with Low Incomes Faced Greater Health …

In this report, we use data from the April 2021 Health Reform Monitoring Survey to assess health status, health insurance coverage, health care access and affordability, and …

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How Are Income and Wealth Linked to Health and …

Though it is easy to imagine how health is tied to income for the very poor or the very rich, the relationship between income and health is a gradient: they are connected step-wise at every …

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Health Policy Center Urban Institute

Our Issues. For nearly 40 years, our health policy scholars have helped lawmakers understand the scope of the country’s health care problems and costs, evaluated how public policies affect …

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Why Health Insurance Is Important Urban Institute

Having health insurance is important for several reasons. Uninsured people receive less medical care and less timely care, they have worse health outcomes, and lack of …

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How Are Income and Wealth Linked to Health and …

The greater one’s income, the lower one’s likelihood of disease and premature death. Americans at all income levels are less healthy than those with higher incomes. Not …

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Social determinants of health Urban Institute

The Urban Institute’s Social Determinants of Health initiative analyzes how social, economic, and environmental factors—where we live, learn, work, and age, and whether our communities are …

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Emerging Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for …

As the COVID-19 pandemic exposed health disparities that have long existed in cities worldwide, Urban Institute and Impact on Urban Health convened a dialogue series with …

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How Will Physicians Be Affected by Health Care Reform

Although physicians understandably have focused on the sustainable growth rate policy and its potential for large Medicare fee cuts, many may benefit from the key provisions …

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A Blueprint for Promoting Equitable Health and Health Care …

Institution-led health equity initiatives often fail to produce effective, sustainable changes, in part because of superficial partnerships with the community that the interventions …

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Strategies for Connecting Justice-Involved Populations to …

Enrolling the Justice-Involved Population into Medicaid. In this chapter, we offer strategies in three areas: (1) bolstering the eligibility and enrollment workforce for justice-involved people, (2) …

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How Local Governments Can Advance Health Equity through Their …

Events. Urban Wire How Local Governments Can Advance Health Equity through Their Built Environments. Emily Bramhall, Joseph Schilling. July 14, 2020. The buildings we …

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RESEARCH REPORT Urban Blight and Public Health

od conditions and the well-being of residents. Many of these public health studies focus on the impact of deleterious housing and neighborhood conditions on particular health …

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The Health Coverage of Noncitizens in the United States, 2024

About 8.0 percent of nonelderly noncitizens are covered by nongroup insurance, including the Basic Health Program and Marketplace PTCs, compared with 6.7 percent of the total …

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Improving and Expanding Programs to Support a Diverse …

vi EXECUT IVE SUMMARY Academic enrichment programs are invaluable to entry into and graduation from medical school. Study participants noted the competition for top-performing …

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The Health Benefits of Parks and their Economic Impacts

23. 23. 24. The Literature Is Strongest for Quantifying Physical, Mental, and Environmental Health Outcomes in Parks Confirming the Actual Relationship between Parks and Outcomes Is …

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More than One in Five Adults with Limited Public Transit …

ADULTS WITH LIMITED PUBLIC TRANSIT ACCESS FORGO HEALTH CARE 5 FIGURE 2 . Share of Adults Ages 18 to 64 Who Missed or Skipped a Scheduled Health Care Visit in the …

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A Guide to Community Strategies for Improving Emerging …

This guide’s sections highlight three focus areas for practitioners looking to improve outcomes for emerging adults: (1) relationships and support networks, health and well-being, and (3) …

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How Long Must State and Local Employees Work to …

Only 19 percent of plans enable state and local government employees hired at age 25 to accumulate any employer-financed pension benefits within the first 10 years of employment, …

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