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The Build Health Challenge: Addressing Healthcare’s Blindside in Albuquerque’s South Side
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Addressing Healthcare’s Blindside in Albuquerque’s South Side

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This report highlights the efforts of the Albuquerque, New Mexico, BUILD initiative: Addressing Healthcare’s Blindside in Albuquerque’s South Side (AHBASS) to address high chronic disease rates in the SE Heights and South Valley communities.

This report analyzes core partner interviews—representing community-based organizations, hospitals and health systems, and local public health departments—and presents findings from their points of view in an effort to highlight lessons learned and share insights related to collaboration, data use, policy and advocacy, health equity, and sustainability.

AHBASS aims to create an environment that makes “the healthy choice the easy choice.” by working to integrate key social determinants of health (economic stability, education, food, community, neighborhood, and physical environment) within primary care services accessed by prioritized communities, AHBASS seeks to reduce chronic disease rates in the focus communities by creating a wellness ecosystem.

Publication

Ensuring That Money Intended for Health Equity is Well Spent

publication highlights how a national framework to measure equity can help state and local jurisdictions employ American Rescue Plan Act funds as intended — and hold city, county and state leaders accountable for focusing on equity in their decision-making and programmatic choices.

Brief

The Process of Partnering with Community Members: Preliminary Findings

This brief presents lessons learned about the community partnership process from a series of interviews and a focus group with community members engaging in cross-sector collaboratives.

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Community Member Experiences with Collaboratives: Preliminary Findings

This brief presents findings from interviews and a focus group with 15 community members who have participated in, and in some cases been affected by, cross-sector collaboratives in their communities.