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How to Measure Social Capital
"Social capital cannot be measured directly, but can be inferred from its determinants or manifestations. The determinants are factors that have an impact on social interactions and therefore allow social capital to come about (read more). Manifestat
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Restoring the Right to Vote is a Pathway to Better Health – a Look at Felon Re-enfranchisement and the 2020 Election
Overview:
With less than two months until the 2020 General Election, one of the issues getting attention is the restoration of voting rights to people convicted of felonies. Some states are following a recent trend to restore voting rights, with five
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Can Social Informatics Improve Social Determinants of Health Data?
Highlights:
- Gathering and integrating social determinants of health (SDOH) data are becoming more common, but the study of social informatics could help ease the integration process.
- The rise of value-based reimbursement has led the medical field to
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Carving Out a Future for Health Equity, Closing Health Disparities
Highlights:
- In order to build a future defined by health equity, it's important to understand the past and how injustices have created health disparities.
- Pre-pandemic, the industry was skirting around the issue of health equity and healthcare dispa
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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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Housing First Charlotte-Mecklenburg Research & Evaluation Project
Key Findings:
Housing First Charlotte-Mecklenburg (HFCM) is a multi-sector collaboration to end chronic homelessness by scaling housing first, and particularly the housing first permanent supportive housing model. Housing first programs prioritize ho
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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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A Systematic Review of Interventions on Patients’ Social and Economic Needs
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Based on a growing body of research documenting inverse relationships between social adversity and health and well-being, social determinants of health (SDH)—including access to food, housing, transportation, and education—have sidled into t
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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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9-25-20 Education Breakout Session Notes
NAA Education Group Breakout Session #1
Friday, September 25th, 2020
Attendees: BJ Walker, Don Barr, Josh Rubin, Maria Gagnon, Matthew Henry, Matthew Tinsley, Adrienne Young, Duane Brown, Elle Gemma Gruver, Cecile Herledan
Missing: Karthik Balakrishnan,
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9/25/2020 Neighborhood and Physical Environment Meeting Notes
Report out topics from this discussion included:
- It’s critical that we focus on systemic and institutional racial and other inequities.
- It’s not just zip code. Zip code is just one of the issues involved.
- Address access to broadband.
- Address ground
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The Colorado Guide to 2Gen
Captured in this publication is thier definition of:
Social Capital
Social capital is a key success factor of the 2Gen approach. Many years of research have
shown that social capital manifests as peer support; contact with family, friends, and
neighbor
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Meanings and Misunderstandings: A Social Determinants of Health Lexicon for Health Care Systems
In this article, the authors highlight some of the key terms being used in work related to social determinants of health in US health care settings.
They propose an initial set of definitions for these terms, using existing definitions where available
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The Looming Housing Crisis and Child Protection Agencies
A few weeks ago, my client, a mother in a child protective case trying to regain custody of her children, informed my students she had lost her housing and was now homeless. Immediately, my students picked up the phone and called the one person taske
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Fighting For Equitable Transportation: Why It Matters
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Walking and bicycling are prevalent among low-income people and people of color – but street conditions are even more dangerous than the walking and bicycling conditions experienced by white, middle-class Americans. In addition, the health, ac
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Caring for patients with lived experience of homelessness
Main Message:
Family physicians can use simple and effective approaches to identify patients who are homeless or vulnerably housed; take initial steps to initiate access to housing, income assistance, case management, and treatment for substance use;
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