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Primary Care Physicians
Ratio of population to primary care physicians.Public health and the new administration
As a new administration rolls into D.C. this month, those of us in public health are asking ourselves what the future holds. To kick off 2025, we’re bringing our listeners an interview with a nonprofit public health leader to ask his perspective on issues most relevant to the field.
Quality of life
Quality of life underscores the importance of physical, mental, social and emotional health throughout the life course. Quality of life reflects internal conditions, such as perceived health, life satisfaction and self-esteem. Quality of life also includes external aspects that enable people to live well, such as environmental and housing quality and community safety. Quality of life data tell us how people assess their overall well-being. Self-assessed health correlates with actual health outcomes. Health-related quality of life focuses on how a person’s health impacts their ability to live a full life.Reading Scores*
Average grade level performance for 3rd graders on English Language Arts standardized tests.Reparations: A solution to the racial wealth divide
In this episode, we explore reparations as a possible solution to bridging the racial wealth divide. We're joined by Dr. Andre Perry, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and a scholar-in-residence at American University. Perry has authored the book, Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities and co-authored a Brookings policy brief: “Why we need reparations for Black Americans.” Perry argues that reparations are not only the solution, but they’re also the morally right thing to do.
Residential Segregation - Black/White*
Index of dissimilarity where higher values indicate greater residential segregation between Black and White county residents.Returning to our public health roots
How does public health return to its roots of organizing to improve health? In this episode, we will share recent organizing success stories with specific examples and strategies that work on the ground.
Reviving public health’s roots in organizing
The first episode of In Solidarity's four-part series covers how the field of public health is rooted in organizing and how practitioners can re-engage and reconnect to their powerful, political origins. Physician, epidemiologist and host of the America Dissected podcast, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, joins the conversation to discuss public health's history with organizing and the ways we can use organizing to improve health.