An Unprecedented Health Challenge Working with Border Communities
The Paso del Norte region is experiencing an unprecedented public health challenge – over the past three years, more than 8,000 individuals were murdered in Ciudad Juárez.
The NPA: Supporting Collective Impact on Health Equity
This webinar provided an overview of the NPA, including discussions regarding how philanthropic organizations can engage with other entities and sectors through the NPA for greater collective impact on achieving health equity.
Supporting Children’s Healthy Development: Place DOES Matter
There is increasing recognition that children and their families are generally as safe, healthy, and productive as the communities in which they live, work, and play. As a result, there is more focus on improving community conditions and mitigating negative influences on people’s health and well-being.
2011 Annual Meeting on Health Philanthropy
The 2011 Annual Meeting on Health Philanthropy was held March 2-4, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.
Health, Housing, and Community Development: Aligning Ideas and Priorities
On this audioconference, funders learned about HUD’s approach to creating sustainable communities, which marks a shift in the agency’s spending, policies, and programs.
Healthy and Safe Housing: A Foundation for Healthy Futures
The link between housing and health is well known and well established. Efforts to improve public health through housing improvements go back to the origins of the public health movement.
Racism: Combating the Root Causes of Health Disparities
Reducing health disparities in communities of color has been a public health priority in the United States for the past decade. To date, however, substantial improvements have not been achieved. Even more troubling is the evidence that disparities persist even when overall health trends improve.
Intervening Early to Address Children’s Health Disparities
In the United States, children of color and those in low-income families continue to lag behind white and affluent children on nearly every health indicator. In addition, many of these indicators and conditions, such as preterm birth, low birth weight, and asthma, can have long-term influences on children’s healthy development and functioning.
What’s in a Name? Untangling Health Disparities, the Social Determinants of Health, and Health Equity
Health disparities…social determinants of health… health equity. These phrases are used to talk about differences in health, but what do they mean?
Tackling the Tough Work of Community Change
While somewhat new to health foundations, place-based community change work is not new to philanthropy. Grantmakers who are considering such ventures have to judge how comfortable they are with the roles they might be called upon to play in a community change effort.
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