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WebAccess to quality, affordable health care can transform lives and communities. Urban delivers data and analysis on America’s health care system that deepen understanding …

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Parents with Low Incomes Faced Greater Health …

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

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Health Policy Center Urban Institute

WebOur 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 …

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Why are some Americans more likely to fall off the “cliff …

WebThe cliff of good health has a “third dimension”—shaped by structural forces rooted in race, gender, and economic inequality—that pushes some groups of people …

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Dr. Camara Jones Explains the Cliff of Good Health

WebCamara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, is a senior fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute and the Cardiovascular Research Institute in the Morehouse School of Medicine, …

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More than One in Five Adults with Limited Public Transit …

WebUsing June 2022 data from the Urban Institute’s Health Reform Monitoring Survey, we examine transportation barriers to health care and the association between …

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Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data for Use by Health …

WebThis report is based on a literature review on the status of health plans' R/E data collection and perceived and actual barriers to collecting these data, more than 50 …

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How Are Income and Wealth Linked to Health and …

WebThough 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 …

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The Health Benefits of Parks and their Economic …

WebEXECUTIVE SUMMARY vii positively affects mental health by reducing stress levels and improving mood, with onward benefits from those outcomes to decreased use of mental …

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In Pursuit of Health Equity: Comparing U.S. and EU …

WebThe U.S. report provides an overview of racial and ethnic disparities and unveils a plan for HHS to reduce those disparities. The European Commission report sets forth the …

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Six Opportunities to Improve Health IT Infrastructure to Address a

WebOn March 29, Vice President Mike Pence sent a letter to hospital administrators (PDF) requesting hospitals to email the number and results of COVID-19 …

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More than One in Five Adults with Limited Public Transit …

WebADULTS 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 …

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How Local Governments Can Advance Health Equity through Their …

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

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RESEARCH REPORT Leveraging Community Expertise to …

WebLeveraging Community Expertise to Advance Health Equity . Given the COVID-19 pandemic’s. disproportionate effects on people of color and increased attention to racial …

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RESEARCH REPORT Urban Blight and Public Health

WebUrban Blight and Public Health We spend more than two-thirds of our time where we live, and the state of our homes and neighborhoods invariably affects our …

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Strategies for Connecting Justice-Involved Populations to …

WebEnrolling 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 …

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THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC-SPG no.1, November 2007

Web3 Health Policy Brief Importance of Insurance 5 Levy, Helen and David Meltzer. 2004. “What Do We Really Know about Whether Health Insurance Affects Health?” chapter 4 in …

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Urban Parks as Partners in Youth Development

WebIn three sessions—spring, summer, and fall— young teens are taught such skills as bee-keeping, rose maintenance, and low-flow watering systems. As they become profi-cient, …

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RESEARCH REPORT Community Health Is Maternal Health

WebContents Acknowledgments iv Executive Summary v Challenges to Maternal Health v Supports for Maternal Health vi Community Health Is Maternal Health 1 Methods 3 …

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Promoting Neighborhood Improvement while Protecting Low …

WebProgress against crime is allowing residents of poor neigh-borhoods to shop, play, and walk comfort-fare of low-income families. Revitalization efforts could price low-income …

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The Evolution of the American City

WebThey change the chemical composition, so to speak, of the American identity. And between roughly the 1890s and the 1930s, cities helped define American culture in a way which …

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RESEARCH REPORT Advancing Maternal Health Equity in …

WebEXECUTIVE SUMMARY VII still potentially advance maternal health equity, including pilots to test the efficacy and impacts of new benefits and services, hospital -level investments …

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