Community health - Topics

How contact tracing works and why it fell apart at scale Local health departments are the front line nobody funds properly Community health workers in rural chronic care: what they can and cannot do What recovery means in mental health beyond symptom relief What makes a neighborhood healthy or unhealthy? Building trust between a community and its health services Life expectancy between two neighborhoods ten minutes apart Life expectancy gaps between rich and poor countries: how much is medicine? How a community health assessment is actually done Walkability and green space change population health How residents can influence local health priorities Income is one of the strongest predictors of health Air quality and asthma rates in industrial neighborhoods Food deserts and their effect on community health Peer groups shift health behavior more than any app notification Community health workers and the trust they build Data quality problems that wreck a population health dashboard Community health centers and the patients they were built to serve Social isolation is a community health problem Health education that people actually act on Free blood pressure checks at churches and barbershops Community gardens and heat islands: the health claims that are hard to measure What actually goes into a community health needs assessment? Community paramedicine: home visits instead of another ambulance run Meals and transport and housing are now part of some health care budgets How do city housing and transit policies end up shaping local health outcomes? Mask mandates in schools: what the evidence review actually found Walkability audits: counting curb cuts and crosswalks to argue for safer streets Lead in the water: how a neighborhood organizes after the test results arrive Protesting a hospital closure: what a neighborhood can actually do What a community health center does that an emergency room cannot Rural clinic closures are leaving whole counties with no obstetrics care