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Health and health care Urban Institute

WebAccess to quality, affordable health care can transform lives and communities. Urban delivers data and analysis on America’s health care system that deepen understanding …

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Parents with Low Incomes Faced Greater Health Challenges and …

WebIn this report, we use data from the April 2021 Health Reform Monitoring Survey to assess health status, health insurance coverage, health care access and …

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Health Policy Center Urban Institute

WebOur Issues. For nearly 40 years, our health policy scholars have helped lawmakers understand the scope of the country’s health care problems and costs, evaluated how …

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The Picture of Health

WebThe United States spends nearly twice as much per person on health care as other rich nations, but we’re no healthier for it. Americans are sicker and die younger than people …

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Policy Briefs Urban Institute

WebThe Urban Institute's Health Policy Center produces a series of policy briefs drawing on the HRMS. The briefs provide information on trends in health insurance coverage, health …

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How Does Housing Stability Affect Mental Health

WebFor people with less-severe mental health challenges, lack of stable housing can exacerbate symptoms. A study analyzing the impact of long-term housing …

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How Are Income and Wealth Linked to Health and Longevity

WebThough it is easy to imagine how health is tied to income for the very poor or the very rich, the relationship between income and health is a gradient: they are connected step-wise …

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RESEARCH REPORT Urban Blight and Public Health

WebUrban Blight and Public Health We spend more than two-thirds of our time where we live, and the state of our homes and neighborhoods invariably affects our …

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Emerging Strategies for Integrating Health and Housing

WebThis study examined emerging interventions that integrate housing and health services in neighborhoods, in cities, and across the country, focusing on interventions …

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How Are Income and Wealth Linked to Health and Longevity

WebThe greater one’s income, the lower one’s likelihood of disease and premature death. Americans at all income levels are less healthy than those with higher …

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Six Opportunities to Improve Health IT Infrastructure to Address a

WebOn March 29, Vice President Mike Pence sent a letter to hospital administrators (PDF) requesting hospitals to email the number and results of COVID-19 …

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Why are some Americans more likely to fall off the “cliff of good

WebThe cliff of good health has a “third dimension”—shaped by structural forces rooted in race, gender, and economic inequality—that pushes some groups of people …

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The Health Benefits of Parks and their Economic Impacts

WebEXECUTIVE SUMMARY vii positively affects mental health by reducing stress levels and improving mood, with onward benefits from those outcomes to decreased use of mental …

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How Will Physicians Be Affected by Health Care Reform

WebAlthough physicians understandably have focused on the sustainable growth rate policy and its potential for large Medicare fee cuts, many may benefit from the key …

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Moving Upstream to Achieve Better and Equitable Health in Texas

WebRacial and ethnic health disparities in Texas cost the economy $40.6 billion annually in excess medical spending, lost job productivity, and lost earnings. Racial and …

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RESEARCH REPORT Health Needs in the Washington …

WebContents Acknowledgments iv Introduction 1 Methods 2 Health, Health Care, and Social Determinants of Health across the Six Jurisdictions 5 Needs Assessments Covering the …

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How Local Governments Can Advance Health Equity through Their …

WebEvents. Urban Wire How Local Governments Can Advance Health Equity through Their Built Environments. Emily Bramhall, Joseph Schilling. July 14, 2020. The …

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RESEARCH REPORT Community Health Is Maternal Health

WebContents Acknowledgments iv Executive Summary v Challenges to Maternal Health v Supports for Maternal Health vi Community Health Is Maternal Health 1 Methods 3 …

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Advancing Rural Health Equity through Partnerships, Data, and …

WebJoin the Urban Institute and Partners for Rural Transformation for a discussion about challenges and solutions for advancing rural health equity. Speakers …

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Urban Parks as Partners in Youth Development

WebIn three sessions—spring, summer, and fall— young teens are taught such skills as bee-keeping, rose maintenance, and low-flow watering systems. As they become profi-cient, …

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How Long Must State and Local Employees Work to …

WebOnly 19 percent of plans enable state and local government employees hired at age 25 to accumulate any employer-financed pension benefits within the first 10 years of …

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Promoting Neighborhood Improvement while Protecting Low …

WebProgress against crime is allowing residents of poor neigh-borhoods to shop, play, and walk comfort-fare of low-income families. Revitalization efforts could price low-income …

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