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Designing for Better Mental Health Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sarah Cusworth Walker Local and personal factors, such as neighborhood, race, gender, and age, significantly influence our mental health status. And it is well known that communities of color experience less access to mental health services than white communities despite similar levels of need.

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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Weak social connections represent an equivalent health risk to smoking and obesity. Here are several tenets of public health and how they are playing out addressing social isolation and loneliness across the globe. Help Health Care Professionals Diagnose Loneliness Diagnosis is the first step to treatment.

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Navigating Trends and Traditions in the Health Industry

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Navigating Trends and Traditions in the Health Industry Innovation will be necessary to keep up with these changes in the landscape for patients and providers in the health industry. Now, the rise of value-based care and patient consumerism is already beginning to define the future.

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Learning From the Climate-Mental Health Convergence

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Aruta & Kelly Davis A convergence is happening between the climate and mental health movements, and social impact practitioners need to pay attention. Characterizing the relationship between these two complex problems is often challenging because the true tolls of the mental health and climate crises are inseparable.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These communities lack access to health care , struggle with food insecurity and water scarcity , and generally have difficulty meeting basic needs. The program is now starting to provide access to financing, as well as health services in countries such as Indonesia and Mexico, including guidance on self-care, nutrition, and family planning.

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Writing New Narratives for Health

NonProfit Quarterly

As a longtime science-fiction fan and health justice practitioner, I’m drawn to works that imagine the future of our healthcare system. Who deserves good health? However—as we’ve explored in the series—organizers, healers, and other change agents have long lifted up counter-narratives of health and healthcare.

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Interview: Dismantling Structural Racism in Health Around the World

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tlaleng Mofokeng & Karabi Acharya In countries and communities around the world there are organizers, leaders, and experts who are working to remove the barriers to health that are rooted in racism and structural discrimination. And yet a lot of the public health messaging had that framing. There was no dignity there.

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