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Where Children Rarely Escape Poverty
Emily DeRuy and Janie Boschma Charlotte, North Carolina, wants to change its status as one of the worst places in the United States for poor children to have a shot at getting ahead as adults. If the city succeeds, its efforts may offer a roadmap...
Group takes a broad look at county’s health
San Juan Community PLACE MATTERS, or SJCPM, is a group of organizations and citizens from throughout San Juan County joining together to make the places where we live, learn, work and play healthier for ALL members of the community. It addresses...
WKKF supports Kalamazoo and Flint
from WKKF: "Over the past weekend, the unimaginable happened in our nearby Kalamazoo community when a shooter took the lives of six people and severely injured two others. We are deeply saddened by such unbearable acts of violence and the...
NHMA & HDA presents 20th Annual Joint National Conference: Advancing Hispanic Health: the Next 20 Years – NHMA and HDA Leading the Way
Join the NHMA & HDA network of physicians, dentists, health care professionals, government and private sector partners from across the nation and learn new strategies for effective health care and policies to improve the health of Hispanic...
Stigma: The Impact on Public Health and Public Health Policy
The Lung Cancer Allinace has launched a Congressional Briefing Series as a platform to educate Members of Congress and Congressional staff on issues related to lung cancer. During the briefing series, they will provide substantive, fact-based...
Blueprints to Action: Community Strategies to End Racism and Promote Racial Healing
In 2009, the PLACE MATTERS teams embarked upon a process called “blueprinting” that bought together subject matter experts, communities, and other stakeholders in a problem solving process for documenting lessons, process, methods, and...
PLACE MATTERS: Advancing Health Equity
Place Matters: Advancing Health Equity documents some of the Place Matters Team's early successes and efforts to transform how communities understand and tackle persistent racial and ethnic health...
The Economic Burden of Health Inequalities in the United States
This study, carried out by leading researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, provides important insight into how much of a fi nancial burden racial disparities are putting on our health care system and society at...
A Lost Decade: Neighborhood Poverty and the Urban Crisis of the 2000s
This report tracks the stubborn persistence of concentrated poverty—poverty rates over 30 percent—in U.S. metropolitan areas over a period of nearly 40 years. Neighborhoods with povertyrates above 30 percent have been recognized as places with...