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Image Thumbnail Why Our Greatest Health Concern Isn't Diet or Exercise - It's Neighborhood E-mail to a friend
OP-ED by Larry Adelman on AlterNet.org, February 19, 2009

Series Creator and Executive Producer Larry Adelman expands upon economist Robert Evan's analogy of health care as a repair shop to illustrate the crucial role that "road conditions" play in determining our health status.

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Image Thumbnail Why Place & Race Matter: Impacting health through a Focus on Race and Place E-mail to a friend
PolicyLink

This report builds on PolicyLink's earlier work to look more intentionally and explicitly at race and ethnicity and what they mean in the context of building healthy communities. "Why Place and Race Matter" dives deeply into these issues and profiles dynamic groups and initiatives throughout California and beyond. Although approaches vary, each illuminates the interplay among people, place, and race. We hope these strategies and profiles will facilitate the exchange of ideas, encourage partnerships across disciplines and sectors, and stimulate action to build healthy communities.

Image Thumbnail Why Place Matters: Building a Movement for Healthy Communities (pdf) E-mail to a friend
REPORT by J. Bell and V. Rubin, PolicyLink.org

This report explains the framework of place (economic, social, physical, and service environments) to understand the relationship between community conditions and health, analyzes the connections among all the environmental factors that contribute to a healthy community, and identifies environmental effects on community health.

Image Thumbnail Why Social Determinants? E-mail to a friend
Healthcare Quarterly

There is overwhelming evidence that social factors have profound influences on health. Children are particularly sensitive to social determinants, especially in the early years. Mounting an effective response to social determinants will involve both direct social policy initiatives designed to eliminate poverty and inequality, and indirect approaches focused on disrupting pathways between social risks and poor health outcomes. To be effective, these indirect strategies will require nothing short of a transformation of existing child health systems. Parents and professionals must work together from the ground up, raising public awareness about social determinants of health and implementing cross-sector place-based initiatives designed to promote positive health in childhood.

Image Thumbnail Women and Gender Equity (pdf) E-mail to a friend
REPORT from the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, 2007

Focuses on mechanisms, processes and actions that can be taken to reduce gender-based inequities in health by examining different areas.

This is an interim report, submitted by the Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network to develop the Commission's final report in May 2008.

Image Thumbnail Women Are Now Equal Victims of Poor Economy E-mail to a friend
NEWS ARTICLE , New York Times, July 22, 2008

A Congressional study using government data indicates that the supposed "motherhood movement"—women leaving the workforce to focus on home-making—has actually been a largely involuntary withdrawal based on a stagnant economy and high unemployment. The percentage of men aged 25-54 who are employed has dropped from its peak at 96% in 1950 to 86% in 2008. Employment rates among women increased steadily from the women's movement until 2000, but have declined ever since.

Image Thumbnail Work and its role in shaping the social gradient in health E-mail to a friend
Jane E. Clougherty, Kerry Souza, and Mark R. Cullen

Best evidence in 2009 suggests that occupation does affect health.Most recent research on the relationship has been directed at disentangling the pathways through which lower-status work leads to adverse health outcomes. This review focuses on six areas of recent progress: (1) the role of status in a hierarchical occupational system; (2) the roles of psychosocial job stressors; (3) effects of workplace physical and chemical hazard exposures; (4) evidence that work organization matters as a contextual factor; (5) implications for the gradient of new forms of nonstandard or “precarious” employment such as contract and shift work; and (6) emerging evidence that women may be impacted differently by adverse working conditions, and possibly more strongly, than men.

Image Thumbnail Zip Code as Important as Genetic Code in Childhood Obesity E-mail to a friend
ARTICLE in Science Daily, 2012

Report on a new study that indicate that where a child lives, including factors such as the neighborhood's walkability, proximity to higher quality parks, and access to healthy food, has an important effect on obesity rates. 

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