Community Violence Streetwork: Paved with Good Intentions
Community violence interventions, like streetwork teams, can bring a sense of trust and healing to those deeply affected by gang-related violence.
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Bridging the Substance Use Treatment Gap
Bridge clinics have emerged as innovative models of care for those seeking treatment for substance use disorder, cutting through the challenges these individuals have faced in other health care settings.
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Kimber King
Kimber King, program assistant for the Massachusetts Overdose Prevention Helpline, shares about her experiences and efforts to center both harm reduction and compassionate understanding in her work.
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Education and Overdose Deaths
People who use drugs had higher death rates than those who did not across all educational levels, with death rates highest among those with less formal education.
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Promoting Housing Stability: Eviction Prediction
Helping the unhoused population requires not only finding stable housing for those without shelter, but also keeping people from losing their homes in the first place.
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Artificial Turf Fields: Grass Is Always Greener
From increased risk of injury to toxic chemical exposure, the public health consequences of artificial turf fields are too deep to ignore.
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Telehealth’s Tech Gap
Despite the widespread push for telehealth adoption, Black patients report having less telehealth visits than White patients, largely due to a lack of internet access.
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Boston’s Housing Waitlists: Lengthy Lists, Tentative Tenants
In Boston, rising rents are forcing poor individuals and families to wait for affordable housing, with the average waitlist time being around 3 years.
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Tourni-Kit Tactics
When emergency strikes, having first aid kits equipped with tourniquets easily accessible and in greater supply can literally be a matter of life and death.
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Expanding Equity
Medicaid expansion had the largest impact on lowering uninsurance rates in states with the greatest amount of historical redlining practices.
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