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Income Inequality
Ratio of household income at the 80th percentile to income at the 20th percentile.Infant Mortality*
Number of infant deaths (within 1 year) per 1,000 live births.Injury Deaths
Number of deaths due to injury per 100,000 population.Institutional practices
Institutional practices are the ways in which an institution’s members carry out their functions and responsibilities, often through established patterns of behavior and procedures. They can include decision-making processes and resource allocation established by historical precedent, communication protocols, performance evaluations and hiring and promotion practices.Insufficient Sleep*
Percentage of adults who report fewer than 7 hours of sleep on average (age-adjusted).Introducing a new model of health
The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute’s model of health focuses on how power and society’s rules—such as laws, policies and worldviews—shape health and well-being.
Introducing: Civic health
In Solidarity is back for a brand-new series exploring the connections between our civic health, our individual health and the health of our communities. We’re bringing you eight interviews with equity experts and authors Daniel Dawes, Dr. Peniel Joseph, Dr. Erika Blacksher, Dr. Julia Kaufman, Dr. Solange Gould, Aliya Bhatia, Jeanne Ayers and Dawn Hunter.
Introducing In Solidarity: Connecting power, place and health
Welcome to the launch of In Solidarity: Connecting Power, Place and Health. In this debut episode, hosts Ericka Burroughs-Girardi and Beth Silver introduce themselves and the theme for the podcast: social solidarity. Burroughs-Girardi and Silver explore how our lives and fates are interconnected, whether obvious or not. And they discuss how the two of them discovered a connection that shaped their lives before they were even born.
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Introducing: Organizing for health
In Solidarity is back for a new series exploring the power of organizing to improve our health. We’re diving into public health’s history of organizing around just causes and the ways it can return to its powerful, political roots.