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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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Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.

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“More Than Just Giving Them a Piece of Paper”: Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations

This publication characterizes referrals to community-based organizations by primary care practices, which are increasingly being used by healthcare organizations to invest in social care.

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Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022

This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs