Stakeholders are developing and testing screening tools and interventions to address nutrition insecurity, additive to and distinct from food insecurity. Given nutrition and health inequities in diet-related diseases, achieving nutrition security must be a priority for health care systems, government programs, and community efforts.
Residential segregation is a fundamental, structural determinant of health because of its role in mediating exposure to key social determinants of health, including education, income, employment, and housing, among others.
Several policies and programs and evolving case law address residential segregation and health disparities in the United States, combatting more than a century of exclusionary policies embedded in land use and housing codes.
Today in Forefront, Nancy Wittmer and colleagues from Denver Health write about their experience with inclusive race and ethnicity data collection, and the need for data equity principles.
Health Affairs' Chris Fleming and Rob Lott discuss how health care would fare under in current legislation negotiated by the White House and Congressional Republications. to suspend the debt limit..
During June, we're highlighting influential voices and organizations who have made an impact on LGBTQ+ health equity and policy.
In a May 2023 Forefront article, Madeline Noh discusses the harm and negative impact on mental health caused by anti-LGBTQ+ state policies.
Noh provides
recommendations on how to decrease minority stress & affirm LGBTQ+ youth’s identity.
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