From President Cara James

Health and Well-Being Threatened in The First 100 Days

Statement from GIH President and CEO Cara V. James on First 100 Days

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Power to the People: Advancing Impact Through Participatory Budgeting

Who is best positioned to determine how health funding should be allocated? At the Community Health Commission of Missouri (CHCM), we believe the answer is clear: the people most affected by health disparities.

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Another Call to Go Upstream: Housing Is Health

Research over the decades has indicated that factors, such as education, income, occupation, housing, neighborhood environment, race, and ethnicity, have a powerful influence on health and are often referred to as the “root cause” of poor health.

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Integrating Health Services for People with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

Care for people with co-occurring conditions remains terribly fragmented. Three separate systems exist—health, mental health, and substance use services— to care for each individual problem, each one with its own set of norms, culture, regulations, reimbursement process, and accountability.

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2012 Terrance Keenan Institute Fellows Announced

GIH is pleased to announce the 2012 Terrance Keenan Institute for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy fellows.

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Food and Health for All: Health Equity for Agricultural Farmworkers

Farmworkers—the hands that grow and supply so much of our daily food—pay a high price with their health and often their lives to provide our nourishment. Living below the U.S. federal poverty level, those who feed our nation are a young workforce facing economic, educational, health, and linguistic challenges.

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Better Health Through Better Philanthropy - Grantmakers in Health

Dental Hub and Spoke Project Links Kansans in Underserved Areas to Dental Care

Kansas, like many states with a vast rural geography, has substantial areas with little or no access to oral health services. Studies of the Kansas dental workforce show 93 of 105 counties do not have enough dentists to serve their population.  

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The Partnership to Eliminate Disparities in Infant Mortality

In 2008 the W.K. Kellogg Foundation provided CityMatCH, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, and the National Healthy Start Association with a $400,000 grant to create the Partnership to Eliminate Disparities in Infant Mortality, focused on eliminating racial inequities contributing to infant mortality in U.S. urban areas.

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