NCDHHS: Healthy Opportunities Pilots
NCDHHS is addressing the conditions in which people live that directly impact health, known as “social determinants of health,” or SDOH.
Resource Hub
The following resources were collected from a number of partnering organizations and are offered to foster learning and collaboration to help advance the field in areas of Climate & Health; Public Health, Housing for Health, Social Health, Food is Medicine, and more.
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Full Circle Health Network: Driving CBO Success with CalAIM
The largest integrated network of community-based organizations in California delivering coordinated services to vulnerable children, individuals and families.
Full Circle Health Network: Connecting CBOs & MCPs
Enabling CBOs to connect with Medi-Cal payers and systems to support children and families.
CHCF Exploring Emerging Medi-Cal Community Care Hubs
This comprehensive study highlights various models and solutions deployed to address the needs of community providers, MCPs, and members.
Good health requires more than health care
Everyone needs a safe place to live, healthy food to eat, and other essentials. We offer support to help people live well and thrive.
White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities
As a continuation of the work started at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, the Biden-Harris Administration launched a nationwide call-to-action to stakeholders across all of society to make commitments to end hunger and reduce diet-related diseases by 2030.
How Health Care Can Lead the Food Is Medicine Movement
Food and nutrition insecurity is a health issue far too big to ignore. Diet-related diseases are the leading cause of death in the US for adults. While the connection between food and health is evident, how can health care make a more meaningful difference in preventing diet-related diseases?
HHS Food is Medicine Virtual and Toolkit Briefing
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services worked with federal partners, NGOs and communities to develop a Food Is Medicine Virtual Toolkit with resources that can be used to advance FIM in communities across the country.
Food Is Medicine | odphp.health.govFind resources to prevent, manage, and treat
Supporting Access to Nutritious Food for Healthy Communities
Kaiser Permanente has committed to providing $50 million by 2030 to support programs that increase food and nutrition security and improve health outcomes for the country’s most vulnerable populations.
Food Is Medicine—Now, Recognize It As “Primarily Health-Related”
Health Affairs Forefront blog by Hilary Seligman and Rocco Perla
USDA Report Reveals Alarming Rise in Food Insecurity in America
A staggering 18 million households were food insecure in 2023, as shown by the Household Food Security Report published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.
Integrating Food into Healthcare: A Conversation with Pam Schwartz
Pam Schwartz, Executive Director of Community Health for Kaiser Permanente, speaks to the Root Cause Coalition about her work and the vision for the FIM Center of Excellence.
FIM @ Tufts
A collection of downloadable FIM resources developed by experts at Tufts and other leading organizations.
HealthBegins
With a deep understanding of scientific research and years of frontline experience working in historically marginalized communities, health begins where we live, work, eat, sleep, and play.
CityHealth
CityHealth, an initiative of the de Beaumont Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, advances a package of evidence-based policy solutions that will help millions of people live longer, better lives in vibrant, prosperous communities.
National Center for Medical Legal Partnership
Medical-legal partnerships integrate the unique expertise of lawyers into health care settings to help clinicians, case managers, and social workers address structural problems at the root of so many health inequities.
Expanding Support for Housing Stability
Innovative medical-legal partnerships keep families in stable housing to improve health and health equity.
Season 3 Toolkit: The Way Home
This toolkit is designed to help community partners reflect on the series and guide viewers through a meaningful discussion on the documentary.
The Way Home
The Way Home is a short-form documentary series sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and produced by KTF Films and Bread and Butter Films aimed at deepening understanding, sparking dialogue, illuminating root causes, and promising solutions to the homelessness crisis across the country.
Special themed issue of NEJM Catalyst
Featured initiatives were published in a special themed issue of NEJM Catalyst, guest edited by Dr. Nicholas Stine. The edition includes articles, case studies, and research reports on coordination across public health and care delivery, COVID 19 response, tuberculosis screening, the 2022 mpox outbreak, pediatric asthma intervention, abortion and reproductive
Common Health Coalition
The Common Health Coalition is uniting America’s leading health care organizations in pursuit of a reimagined health system: one in which the nation’s health care and public health systems work hand in hand.
Epic Share: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
To educate families about health effects from pollution, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children integrated air quality data into Epic. Clinicians review patients’ local air quality levels in the chart, helping initiate conversations about the environmental determinants of health.
Using Air Pollution Data to Offer a More Complete View of
CDC Announces Important Advances in Protecting Americans from Heat
New Heat and Health Initiative, developed in response to increased health risks from heat exposure, aims to improve Americans’ ability to stay safe during heat events.
Huge Climate and Health Risks Require Urgent Action
The challenges posed as our planet warms up are wide-ranging and will impact almost every aspect of our lives.
The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
New projections presented in the eighth annual global report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change.
Climate change will affect all our health – but some will suffer more. What can we do?
Tackling the climate crisis and advocating for health equity requires collective action.
Healthy Environment, Healthy People - Earth Day and every day
Every action counts when it comes to tackling climate change and its impacts on health. Even simply talking about it can make a difference.
Connecting Climate Change and Mental Health: Impact and Hope
Climate change is not just an environmental issue; its impacts are far-reaching and extend to various aspects of human life, including mental health.
Advancing Health and Health Equity Through Climate Action
Learn more about whose health is most affected by climate change and how it affects businesses.
Why businesses should care about Climate and Health - The Business Imperative
The health of the workforce and community is integral to successful, thriving businesses. Learn the five steps businesses can take to better align climate and health.
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