ResearchThis Commonwealth Fund brief provides an overview of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model, which offers participants comprehensive medical and long-term services and supports and highlights include Mountain Empire’s PACE, which serves older adults in rural Virginia.
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ResearchThe South Carolina Rural Research Center conducted a study of how rural counties were impacted by the 2008 recession, specifically focused on an increase in poverty levels, shifts in population and loss or reduction of healthcare services and facilities.
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ResearchUsing the Three-City Study, which provides longitudinal statistics on low-income children from Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio who live in moderate- or high-poverty neighborhoods, the researchers used data from a random sample of 495 children who lived in a household earning less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level with a primary female caregiver. The authors analyzed various indicators of child outcomes, environmental chaos, family instability, parental functioning, and biological vulnerability from three waves of the study (1999, 2001, and 2005-06).
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ResearchThis VCU Center on Society and Health report focuses on population, community characteristics, and health trends in the Richmond metropolitan area that may affect health outcomes for residents.
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ResearchThis Bipartisan Center report looks at how communities across the country must make meeting the needs of their older residents a priority consideration as they plan for the future.
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ResearchThe Harvard JCHS developed three surveys of homeowners, renters, and contractors with the goal of comparing their perceptions and priorities to the current well-established principles of indoor air and environmental quality in order to begin assessing Americans' healthy housing concerns and awareness.
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ResearchThe County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, highlights the many social and economic factors which influence health, and provides resources to help communities take action.
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ResearchThis brief describes the opportunities for anchor institutions to spur neighborhood revitalization and provides specific guidance for how affordable housing and community development organizations can successfully partner with these anchor institutions to improve neighborhoods and expand housing opportunities.
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ResearchResearch from Children’s HealthWatch shows public investment in housing—including housing for homeless families and rental assistance for food-insecure families—improves the health outcomes of vulnerable infants and young children and lowers health care spending.
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ResearchThis study directly explores the link between affordable housing and health care through the lens of several national health reform metrics: better connection to primary care, fewer emergency department visits, improved access to and quality of care, and lower costs.
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