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Community Health Workers Can Fight COVID and Historic Inequities
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Community Health Workers Can Fight COVID and Historic Inequities

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This op-ed discusses hiring workers who will be able to fill gaps in our current public health and community workforce and meet the needs of the communities most adversely affected by the pandemic.

Building a stronger system that can prevent or reduce the impact of a future pandemic means much more than this. It means building a public health system that has a workforce that can:

  • Reduce the inequities in our society that have resulted in a disproportionate impact of this pandemic on communities of color;
  • Assure that every community is served by a public health system with certain foundational capabilities that give real time capacity to understand and respond to public health threats;
  • Address the health-related social needs of individuals and the social determinants at the community level that can mitigate the impact of a pandemic and make communities more resilient during a pandemic; and
  • Empower communities to be active participants in their public and community health systems so they trust them during an emergency.
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Social Bonds as a Pooled Financing Mechanism to Address Social Drivers of Health Equity

This study investigates whether a novel type of social bond can pool resources across multiple competing health plans and create stable, long-term financing for interventions that address social determinants of health.

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Closing Gaps in Health and Social Services for Low-Income Pregnant Women

This webinar explores the effectiveness of the Los Angeles Maternity Assessment Management Access and Service initiative.

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Development and Validation of a Measure to Assess Readiness to Advance Health and Equity: The Assessment for Advancing Community Transformation

This publication reports on the development and validation of the Assessment for Advancing Community Transformation - a tool that allows groups to directly collect and use data about their multi-sector collaborative by creating a shared point of reference for where partners are at in their stage of development across multiple factors.