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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Thursday, December 10, 2020
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
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 >>
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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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