Community-Academic Partnerships: A Win for Communities, Schools, and Public Health - Improving Nutrition in a Faith-Based Setting

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Faculty and students from Georgia College worked with churches in nearby counties to develop a program that improved the nutritional habits of more than 600 residents. CPSTF findings informed decisions about how to use limited resources to fos

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Welcome to the Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator for Partnerships to Address the Social Determinants of Health

This calculator is designed to help community-based organizations and their health system partners plan sustainable financial arrangements to fund the delivery of social services to high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients. HNHC patients, who account for

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Meanings and Misunderstandings: A Social Determinants of Health Lexicon for Health Care Systems

Policy Points:

• Health care systems and policymakers in the United States increasingly
  use language related to social determinants of health in their strategies to improve health and control costs, but the terms used are often
  misunderstood, conflated,

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The National Action Agenda Kickoff Meeting Presentation Slides

Part 1: (12:30 – 2:00)​

• Welcome​
• Invocation ​
• Acknowledgements​
• Background​
• Our Goal and Action Plan​
• Roadmap, Logistics, Timing​
• Activities, Materials, Templates​

Part 2 (2:30 – 4:30)​​

• Workgroup Breakout Sessions ​
• Orientation/Introductions​
• Dis

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No Going Back: Policies for an Equitable and Inclusive Los Angeles

Executive Summary:

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, families across Los Angeles County have endured multiple waves of sickness, insecurity, joblessness, learning loss, and challenges to mental health. These impacts have been felt across Ange

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Interoperability in Healthcare

To better understand the basics of interoperability and health information exchange, HIMSS walks you through the following elements:

What is Interoperability?
Interoperability Standards
The Interoperability Ecosystem
Uses of Information Exchange
Workflow

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SOCI 2020/2021 National Action Agenda to Advance Upstream Social Determinants and Race Equity Action Plan: September 15, 2020 Presentation Slides

On September 15th a preparatory call for the National Action Agenda workgroup leads and co-leads was held.

Agenda topics included:

• Introductions
• Overview of the goals, objectives and logistics of the NAA and workgroups
• Orientation to the process

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Why Teamwork Is Key to Addressing Social Determinants of Health

Healthcare organizations setting out on a social determinants of health program must rely on community partners to effectively meet patient needs.

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Zeroing in on Racial Health Disparities Related to Patient Matching

COVID-19 has shown the importance of patient matching, but gathering patient data from all ethnicities is not a simple matter.

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HHS: Rural Action Plan

The Rural Action Plan provides a description of the current rural health care and human services landscape, particularly the challenges rural individuals and communities face in accessing and financing health care and human services. The characterist

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Which Priorities for Health and Well-Being Stand Out After Accounting for Tangled Threats and Costs? Simulating Potential Intervention Portfolios in Large Urban Counties

Policy Points:

• Interventions in a regional system with intertwined threats and costs
  should address those threats that have the strongest, quickest, and most
  pervasive cross-impacts.
• Instead of focusing on an individual county’s apparent shortcomings,

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Well-Being in the Nation: A Living Library of Measures to Drive Multi-Sector Population Health Improvement and Address Social Determinants

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The past five years has seen a substantial increase in initiatives and activities that foster community-level multisector collaboration to advance population health. The rise in awareness of how social determinants drive health outcomes, advan

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The Social Determinants of Health: Improving Population Health With Data-Driven Insights - White Paper

ZeOmega and Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE) recently partnered together and created a white paper and shared their goal to "present a new approach to improving population health outcomes by applying public and proprietary data sources to the i

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Housing and Delivery System Reform Collaborations: Issue Brief

This project examined current collaborations between housing providers and health care providers. Recent delivery system reforms have provided new or expanded opportunities at the state, local, and organizational level to forge collaborations between

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Community-Driven Health Equity Action Plans

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Culture of Health Program is proud to present a model for developing Community-Driven Health Equity Action Plans. The NAM piloted the model in collaboration with five diverse communities across the United States

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Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity

Key Findings:

Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age that shape health. This brief provides an overview of social determinants of health and emerging initiatives to address them. It shows:

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Healthy People 2030

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Healthy People identifies public health priorities to help individuals, organizations, and communities across the United States improve health and well-being. Healthy People 2030, the initiative’s fifth iteration, builds on knowledge gained ov

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How an ACO, FQHC Model Leveraged Social Determinants of Health

Community Care Cooperative’s (C3’s) unique accountable care organization (ACO) model enables population health management to overcome the social determinants of health needs of their patients.

Christina Severin, MPH, president and chief executive off

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