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Children's Hospital Los Angeles Lands $25 Million for Pediatric Mental Health Program

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

philanthropists Gene and Mindy Stein aims to help young children with complex medical conditions navigate mental health challenges. The gift from L.A.

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It’s Not in Your Mind: Addressing Mental Health Through a Social Justice Lens

NonProfit Quarterly

There is good reason to wonder whether collecting all types of suffering into medicalized mental health disorders is the most accurate or ethical approach when it comes to addressing these crises,” says Dr. Zenobia Morrill , a psychology professor at William James College.

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How Interior Design Can Improve Health Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

One of the systemic issues she seeks to address is the exclusion that people of color experience in health and wellness spaces. Yet, health justice advocates often overlook one important aspect of medical exclusionthe physical environment. In health spaces, color theory is most palpable in wall paint and upholstery.

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How Mobile Health Clinics Advance Health Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Missvain on Wikimedia Commons Equitable access to healthcare is a key element to lessening the racial health disparities that have existed throughout the history of the United States. Mobile health clinic programs have also been effective in reducing emergency department visits.

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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

This disparity is all the more striking considering the magnitude of challenges here, even before the stormbroadband, health care, and food deserts; intergenerational poverty born from extraction; and the ongoing opioid crisis. Its a deep wound to the fabric of our region. And thats just two of 2024s storms.

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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

The growing popularity among consumers who use them as a lifestyle tool, not to manage diabetes, is exacerbating existing health inequities. The growing popularity [of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)]as a lifestyle tool, not to manage diabetes, is exacerbating existing health inequities. Yet, for many, CGMs remain out of reach.

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Music: A Prescription for Health and Social Connection

NonProfit Quarterly

1 And without intervention, health inequities will persist. For public health professionals, this raises the question: What can be done to mitigate the burden of dementia? For public health professionals, this raises the question: What can be done to mitigate the burden of dementia? What is dementia?

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