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A Blueprint to Help Communities Achieve Health Equity for All Children and Families: A Q & A with Kate Kingery
Kate Kingery, CHR&R’s deputy director of community transformation, discusses how and why she became involved in the development of ChangeLab Solutions’ A Blueprint for Changemakers: Achieving Health Equity Through Law & Policy, which presents legal strategies and best practices to help policymakers,...
A Catalyst for Conversations about Health
The County Health Rankings provide local leaders, community partners, and residents an opportunity to look at factors that influence how well and how long residents live. A catalyst for conversations about health in communities all across the country, the Rankings also garner significant national and local media attention.
Since the Rankings release on...
A Culture of Health Gets Built as a Team: Celebrating Algoma, Wisconsin
Situated along the Lake Michigan shoreline, 2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Culture of Health Prize winner Algoma, Wisconsin is a thriving community of caring hearts and big ideas committed to building ...
A Dialogue about Poverty in America
Reducing poverty is necessary for a healthy society. In this webinar, we will explore a new County Health Rankings data tool that highlights differences in poverty rates by race in the healthiest counties and have a frank conversation the roots of poverty and strategies to advance equity in all counties.
A Farmers Market on the Move in North Carolina
Many people in Rowan County, N.C., don’t have access to healthy foods – so Jon Barber, a local food advocate and farmers market owner, is bringing the fruits and vegetables to them. A non-profit venture in the county trucks a mobile farmers market to food deserts, giving people who have little to no transportation options the opportunity to buy...
A Guide to Actionable Measurement
This tool (from the Gates Foundation) provides guidance on evaluating policy initiatives, including a list of Good Practices in Measurement (p.19) applicable to any evaluation. It can be found in Evaluate Actions under...
A history of wealth inequities
The 20th century is full of deliberate acts to restrict Black families from building wealth in this country. In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Dalton Conley, a Princeton University professor and author of Being Black, Living in the Red. Conley traces the massive wealth divide to the enslavement of human beings and follows it through Reconstruction, the New Deal, redlining, the G.I. Bill, and beyond. Conley suggests a race-neutral solution may be the most effective way to close the wealth divide.
A Holistic Approach: Making Social Determinants a True Vital Sign
Recently, TEDMED hosted a Google Hangout to examine the impact of poverty on health—specifically how health professionals can incorporate social determinants of health into everyday clinical encounters. To explore this issue, Philadelphia NPR Senior Health Reporter Taunya English moderated a diverse panel of experts including Dr. Yolande Pengetnze of the Parkland Center for...
A Rankings Founder Urges Senate to Focus on Socio-Economic Factors of Health
With the County Health Rankings, you can see just how much effect socio-economic factors such as income or where you live have on your health. Today, members of a US Senate subcommittee are hearing that message from one of the founders of the Rankings, who was part of a recent article that dives deeper into the socio-economic factors of health for women.
Dr. David...