Health
Learning from Neighborhoods
A new book makes a strong case for connecting healthcare to neighborhoods, but it could focus more on the role of race and ethnicity.
Review
Tag: Health Care
Health
Caring for an Aging Population
Ideas to help address the challenges of providing better care to low-income elders.
Philanthropy & Funding
The Art of “Muddling Through”
How an emergent funding strategy gave rise to a rapid-learning health system and ultimately became part of a national moonshot to eliminate cancer.
Collaboration
Grantee Inclusion for Community Empowerment
Grantee inclusion can help correct the power imbalance not only between foundations and nonprofits, but also between marginalized communities and the broader power structures that perpetuate inequity.
Health
Reaping the Benefits of Integrated Health Care
Care that links physical and mental health has proven to be economically and medically beneficial, but hard to implement sustainably. We can surmount these common roadblocks by emphasizing community collaboration and self-reliance.
Health
Chronic Problems, Not Just Crises, Should Be a Global Health Priority
Addressing non-urgent, lasting conditions such as poor eyesight can help unlock the full potential of the developing world.
Health
A Plan for Healing
After a period of war and genocide, Rwanda launched a national health insurance program that is now delivering sharply improved outcomes.
Health
Seeing the Big Picture in Medical Science
A 21st-century collaborative framework has the potential to deliver more effective and affordable therapies by aligning and engaging all sectors of society.
Health
The Community Cure for Health Care
Large health care systems are beginning to invest core operating dollars in connecting their patients to community resources, in service of the ultimate solution to better costs and outcomes: keeping patients healthy.