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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Residents, regardless of zip code or how much money they have, can breathe clean air, eat healthy and culturally appropriate food, and have a safe, affordable place to call home. When housing is unaffordable, it leaves little money left over to buy healthy foods and critical medicines.

Health 100
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Achieving Health Equity: Shared Stewardship and the Vital Conditions Framework

NonProfit Quarterly

At the Rippel Foundation, we are part of a broad movement to change this. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and others, we developed the vital conditions framework. Vital conditions” refers to the properties of places and institutions that all people need for health and wellbeing.

Health 73
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Redesigning the Birth Experience of Native Parents: A Case Study of Community Codesign

NonProfit Quarterly

The hospital already had strong working partnerships with other communities, notably Latinx communities and also homeless populations, whose health disparities were strongly linked to their culture and existing societal inequities. The work of the Better Birthing team is also continuing to evolve.

Medical 85