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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Thursday, December 10, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

The Missing Piece In America's COVID-19 Isolation And Quarantine
Strategy: Wraparound Services

By Syra Madad, Jennifer B. Nuzzo, and Margaret Bourdeaux

The goal is to remove as many barriers as possible to enable compliance.
The more support we can offer to those needing to isolate or quarantine,
the better our chances of getting out of this pandemic sooner. Read More
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SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

Building Health: Lessons From Seven Years Of The Healthy Futures Fund

By Carol Cahill, Chris M. Kabel, and Emily Bourcier

Between 2012 and 2019, the Healthy Futures Fund (HFF), a collaboration
of the Kresge Foundation, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and
Morgan Stanley, invested $180 million to finance projects that embed
health-enhancing features and services in real estate development. The
fund experimented with two existing tax credit programs to finance those
projects. Lessons from an evaluation of the HFF are especially timely
given the increasing number of hospital systems and health plans
investing in affordable housing and other forms of community
development. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Adding A Climate Lens To Health Policy In The United States

By Renee N. Salas, Tynan H. Friend, Aaron Bernstein, and Ashish K. Jha

In the face of the generational threat of climate change, health policy
must be discussed, funded, and implemented through a climate lens.
According to Renee Salas and coauthors, this means assessing the health
risks driven by climate change and integrating them into policies to
improve the nation's health. Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Health, Climate, and Urban Heat

Urban environments tend to be warmer than rural ones because
infrastructure like buildings and roads absorb and re-emit heat more
than forests and water bodies do. Although the difference is often only
a few degrees between rural and urban areas, it can cause significant
harm to health over time. In a December 2018 blog post, David Introcaso
warns that "future warming, absent any adaptation, will result in an
increase of 2,000 to 10,000 deaths annually in each of 209 US cities
."

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