July Roundup: Population Health in the News

Each month, we scan the globe to bring you the latest in population health news.

What’s new this month? Keep reading…

Programs and population health: failure in Venezuela and hope in North Kivu and…Santa Monica?

In Venezuela, a once-leading AIDS program lies in ruins (Globe and Mail, June 21, 2017)

A truck seeks to improve the health of children in remote North Kivu (Reliefweb, July 12, 2107)

Helping the homeless starts by knowing their names (RWJ Culture of Health Blog, June 22, 2017)

Economic inequality and population health: Sonoma County statistics, the persistence of childhood inequalities, and housing burdens

Sonoma County life expectancies can vary by as much as ten years between neighborhoods (The Windsor Times, July 12, 2017)

Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood undernutrition persist (Harvard School of Public Health, July 12, 2017)

Single-parent households often burdened by housing costs (Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard)

Health insurance: the relationship between health insurance and health–and mortality

What the recent evidence tells us about health insurance coverage and health (NEJM, June 21, 2017)

Is lack of health insurance deadly? (Annals of Internal Medicine, Medicine and Public Issues, June 27, 2017)

Racial disparities: changing the dialogue among African American men, racism and asthma, and childbirth death disparities

Brother, you’re on my mind – changing the national dialogue on mental health among African American men (National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities)

Racism against African American children and young adults makes treatment-resistant asthma worse (UC San Francisco)

Black moms die in childbirth three times as often as white moms…except in North Carolina (Vox, July 3, 2017)

Place and population health: a city-level data tool, learning from rural hospitals, air pollution disparities, and community health records

Expanding a population tool that provides city-level data (Healthcare Informatics, June 27, 2017)

What can urban areas learn from rural hospitals? (Healthcare Informatics, June 27, 2017)

Approved US air pollution levels still cause thousands of early deaths (Science Alert, June 29, 2017)

Achieving population health through community health records (Berkeley School of Public Health, June 28, 2017)