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ICYMI, Ingrid Gould Ellen of the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service appeared on A Health Podyssey to discuss her paper on how neighborhood environments can affect health and health equity.

Mortal Systemic Exclusion Yielded Mortality-Rate Increases In Homeless Population

In the February 2024 Housing & Health issue of Health Affairs, Matthew Fowle of the University of Pennsylvania and Giselle Routhier of New York University assess mortality rates among people experiencing homelessness between 2011-20.

They find large increases in both all-cause and cause-specific homeless mortality rates, with the largest increases in cause-specific mortality related to drug and alcohol overdose, diabetes, infection, cancer, homicide, and traffic injury.

TennCare Disenrollment Led To Increased Evictions in Tennessee

Also in the issue, Mir Ali of the University of Maryland, College Park, and coauthors examine the associations between TennCare disenrollment in 2005 and eviction filings in Tennessee. 

They determine that relative to other southern states, TennCare disenrollment led to a 27.6 percent greater increase in county-level eviction filings and a 24.5 percent greater increase in completed evictions at the county level.

To learn more about their findings, check out a video abstract featuring author Ashley C. Bradford below.

Community & State is the business segment of UnitedHealthcare that provides health care coverage for the economically disadvantaged, the medically underserved and those without the benefit of employer-funded health plans. These state-based health plans meet local needs, while leveraging the national resources of UnitedHealthcare.

In a special series leading up to the release of a theme issue on housing and health, Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews an assortment of authors who have shared briefs on the topic.

• Corianne Scally Gives an Overview on Housing and Health

• Craig Pollack on Low Income Housing Tax Credits

• Ingrid Gould Ellen on Housing Mobility and Health

• Michael Lens on Low-Density Zoning and Neighborhood Segregation

• Behind The Pages of the theme issue with lead editor Ellen Bayer

Reforming The Medical Device Recall Process—A Call For Accountability

Kushal T. Kadakia et al.

Who Will Finally Put Diabetes On The Global Health Agenda?

Madison Featherstone

Join us for the following events in February!

• February 22: Policy Spotlight: One-on-One with Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
• February 26: Journal Club: “Housing-Sensitive Health Conditions Can Predict Poor Quality Housing”