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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Unfortunately, there are not many health clinics nearby where Elisa can get easy access to primary care with her Medicaid insurance. Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Impact investing, as defined by the Global Impact Investing Network , is an investment tool “made with the intention to generate positive, measurable, social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.” Journal of European Social Policy 22 (4): 377–91. Journal of Health Economics 21 (2): 293–311.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Trends across multiple indicators linked to SDG targets, such as maternal mortality, overdose and suicide rates, and proficiency in reading and math, suggest that the future health and well-being of American youth, women, and minority racial and ethnic groups are particularly at risk.

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The social sector is not the first sector to grapple with measurement—fields like health care, genetic research, and climate change share similar complications: highly differentiated participants, infinite combinations of interventions, complex outcomes, and lots of exogenous variables. Health Care: Patient Registries.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

He needs to be dispossessed not just for society’s benefit but for his own mental health and wellbeing. Because the things we are up against, movements for economic, political, or environmental justice, are huge industries, entrenched systems, and habits of thought. It’s hard to be comfortable with failure.