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Community Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States

RWJF asked the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to help delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States ...

We Need More Community-Based Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are the cornerstone of drug innovation in modern medicine, providing a systematic, evidence-based framework for determining the efficacy and safety of treatments before they reach ...
Health Affairs

Creating Safe And Healthy Neighborhoods With Place-Based Violence Interventions

Violence is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States and abroad, with far-reaching consequences for individuals and communities. Interventions that address environmental and social ...
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Improving Health in the Community: A Role for Performance Monitoring

As the analysis and examples in this report have demonstrated, a wide array of factors influences a community's health, and many entities in the community share responsibility for maintaining and ...
The Conversation

Growing a garden can also bloom eco‑resilient, cross‑cultural, food‑sovereign communities

Ranjan Datta works for the University of Saskatchewan and University of Regina. He receives funding from the Nutrien Community Investment Development, Saskatoon, Canada. Currently he is serving as a ...
Science Daily

Nature-based activity is effective therapy for anxiety and depression, study shows

Researchers evaluating a nature-based program of activities for patients with mild to moderate mental health conditions have shown that improvements in mood and anxiety levels can be seen in as little ...