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New Roundtable Released: Reimagining Our Public Health Systems
January 31, 2023Reimagining Our Public Health Systems: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems This roundtable will address the many areas of alignment between the 3 groups, how the recommendations are...
Necessary Conversations: Understanding Racism as a Barrier to Achieving Health Equity
June 15, 2022Genuine discussions about racial inequities are necessary, difficult, and urgent. Many forces work to keep people from discussing racism. Conversations and narratives often generate unproductive fear, shame, guilt, avoidance, and denial in the...
The COVID-19 Crisis: An Opportunity To Build A Fairer, Healthier Nation
June 26, 2020By Nadia J. Siddiqui, Dennis P. Andrulis, Derek A. Chapman, Kimberly Wilson, Beth Jacob, Gail C. Christopher, Naima Wong Croal As Americans struggle with the protracted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is increasingly difficult to avoid some...
The COVID-19 Crisis: An Opportunity To Build A Fairer, Healthier Nation
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Blueprints to Action: Community Strategies to End Racism and Promote Racial Healing
February 22, 2016In 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
February 22, 2016Place 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
February 22, 2016This 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
February 22, 2016This 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...
Better Health through Stronger Communities: Public Policy Reform to Expand Life Paths of Young Men of Color
February 22, 2016A series of reports commissioned in 2006 to the identify the social determinants confronting young men of color, and present public policy recommendations to address those obstacles, paving the way for a positive environmental change for this...
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: Advancing Health Equity for Racially and Ethnically Diverse Populations
February 22, 2016This report provides a comprehensive review of general and specific ACA provisions with the potential to significantly improve health and health care for millions of diverse populations and their...