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Low-income Washington state households still struggling with food insecurity as pandemic protections end

UW School of Public Health Blog

The first survey in this series was conducted in the summer of 2020, the second from December 2020 to January 2021, and the third from July to August 2021. Buszkiewicz, research investigator, Epidemiology at University of Michigan SPH; Shawna Beese, assistant professor of Rural Health Promotion at WSU Health Sciences; Sarah M.

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One story does not fit all: How to change the narrative on veteran suicidesĀ 

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increase compared to 2020, and a sharp increase from the often publicly cited data. Many veterans health advocates say the updated number may still be underestimating the crisis. This community-based program leverages veterans to help fellow veterans build mental health resilience.

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ā€˜No one can see you nowā€™: What states are doing to boost primary care

Association of Health Care Journalists

The Fund is a more than 100-year-old operating foundation that improves population health and health equity by connecting leaders with evidence and sound experience. Before joining the Fund in 2013, he served the state of Rhode Island for eight years as the countryā€™s first health insurance commissioner. In 2020, U.S.

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

The Health Care Blog

It is important to acknowledge here that hundreds more hospitals, many in rural health shortage areas or in inner cities, would have closed had they not been rescued by larger systems. How to Think about Measuring Social Benefit from Large Health Systems. Forty years later, there were 700 fewer facilities generating about $1.2