Population Health News Roundup: February

We curate the top population health news each month. This month, a park on top of an expressway, Copenhagen reveals its secrets, hookworm in the U.S.,  how home repairs help health, and more…

Interdisciplinary spotlight

Changing the global health paradigm: Michelle Barry, MD, discusses bringing all disciplines to the table to combat global health problems (Global Health Now, January 31, 2018)

Place

• Driverless cars and population health: Will everyone benefit equally? (Philly.com, March 22, 2017)
• Smoky mountains: Appalachia residents less protected by smoke-free laws (AJPH, January 18, 2018)
• The mayor knows?: How mayors do at calling out disparities in their cities (National League of Cities’ CitiesSpeak, December 13, 2017)
• You want that tree where? A park on top of an expressway could save lives (Columbia Mailman Public Health Now, January 30, 2018)
• Maybe it’s the Viking thing: Copenhagen reveals its secrets for a healthy city (The Guardian, February 11, 2018)
• Back to the neighborhood: Improving high-risk population diabetes management through community-based programs (MedicalXpress, January 31, 2018)

Health Equity and Disparities

• Unequal air: Smoking rate decline still shows disparities (U.S. News and World Report, January 24, 2018)
• Hookworm in the U.S.?: Americans living in extreme poverty at a greater risk of neglected diseases (Huffington Post, January 30, 2018)
• Technology’s inequalities: Making genetic testing available to everyone could improve disparities (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 2, 2018)
• Working for a (healthy) living:  The key role of work in population health inequities (AJPH, February 7, 2018)

Programs and Policy

• Making the kids alright: Trauma informed care, a systems-wide approach, helps traumatized kids (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia PolicyLab, January 9, 2018)
• Giving 26 years (!) back with housing first: Hospitals subsidizing housing for the homeless (Fast Company, January 29, 2018), and ER use goes down as hospital program pays homeless people’s rent (NPR, January 30, 2018)
• If they had a hammer: How a home repairs initiative improved health (Drexel Urban Health Collective, January 2018)
• SNAP helps seniors, too: SNAP helps keep seniors out of hospitals and long-term care (RWJ Culture of Health Blog, February 1, 2018)
• Collaboration wins: Partnering to help seniors and people with disabilities (Health Affairs, February 2, 2018)
• Communities bring unique programs:  Watch community-based organizations making health equity happen (National Academy of Medicine Spotlight Video Series)
• Doctor, why does my city hurt?: A Philadelphia program trains medical students to think like urban planners (Next City, January 22, 2018)