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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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:
Read more…The COVID-19 pandemic has shed more light on the pressing need for health information technology (HIT) interoperability.
With a surge in patients at hospitals and emergency rooms, providers and support staff are constantly under stress with limited t
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COVID-19 is an unprecedented public health crisis. As the disease continues to spread through communities across the U.S. and abroad, information about the illness continues to evolve. To slow the spread, public health officials are tur
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Senior citizens are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is due in large part to the fact that the risk of severe illness (e.g. hospitalization, intensive care, need for a ventilator or death) increases with age. As a re
Read more…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
Read more…Creating the Healthiest Nation: Health & Housing Equity examines how structural racism and discriminatory policies led to housing and health inequality in America for low-income communities and people of color.
To equip public health professionals wi
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Stable, safe, and affordable housing is a key determinant of health. To address housing’s role in health, many states use Medicaid waiver and demonstration programs to pay for housing-related services and tenancy supports that help people beco
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Tackling the affordable housing crisis will require actors from every sector to finance housing development for low- and moderate-income people. We developed this guide to help nonprofit hospitals and health system understand how their inst
Read more…This policy guide focuses on the Healthy Places Index indicator of housing habitability. The guide describes the connection between housing quality and health, and how and where to start with addressing housing issues, and policy opportunities to add
Read more…This discussion paper identifies a number of approaches for advancing health and health care, all of which similarly need to marshal and align forces across sectors and communities toward disease prevention.
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Health care stakeholders have long recognized that factors outside the health care system—the social determinants of health—influence an individual’s health and well-being. Many hospitals and health systems are working to navigate
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The Affordable Care Act requires all nonprofit hospitals to complete a community health needs assessment (CHNA) process every three years. While CHNAs are a recent requirement, community health assessments (CHAs) have long been used as a
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About the SCALE Series:
From January 2015 to January 2017, with the generous support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, four 100 Million Healthier Lives partner organizations (Institute for Healthcare Improvement [IHI], Communities Joined in Acti
Read more…Centering racial equity is not a single, discrete step. A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration describes positive and problematic practices for centering racial equity across the six stages of the data life cycle:
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This paper focuses on the best practices based on available evidence and research gaps across the key steps in the tapering process:
Report Description:
The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviewed VA facilities and community providers for usage of health information exchanges (HIEs) in their respective communities and to identify any barriers that may impede the use of HIEs.
Read more…In this concept paper, NASDOH, with the guidance from the work of the CARIN Alliance, outlines key opportunities to enable an interoperable data ecosystem where social needs information is shared seamlessly, privately, securely, and with consent to a
Read more…In this concept paper, NASDOH, with the guidance from the work of the CARIN Alliance, outlines key opportunities to enable an interoperable data ecosystem where social needs information is shared seamlessly, privately, securely, and with consent to a
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