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Ending LGBT Health Inequities
Philanthropy can pursue several effective approaches to improve LGBT health.
Tag: Public Health
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Achieving Healthy Communities Through Transit Equity
Expanding public transit systems to connect low-income communities to healthy environments, high-quality education, and well-paying jobs isn’t enough. Transit has to be affordable as well as accessible.
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Using Fair Housing to Achieve Health Equity
Fair housing initiatives that focus on dispersion ignore the social structures and processes that result in the inequitable distribution of resources necessary for health.
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Reducing Health Disparities in Atlanta
A coalition of organizations is improving the health of low-income communities.
Human Rights
Belief-based Social Innovation: Gender-Lens’ Next Frontier
The gender-lens movement is beginning to fund culturally led efforts to transform underlying beliefs that systematically disempower females in the first place.
Energy
Reflections from Fukushima
Confronting the risks and rewards of the world’s largest low-carbon energy source.
Business
Corporate Philanthropy for Real-World Health Interventions
Corporate philanthropy can play a powerful role in addressing pervasive public health problems—a look at three effective practices from the Merck Childhood Asthma Network.
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Health
Only in New York?
City officials under Mayor Michael Bloomberg made advances in public health that were important but hardly unique.
Water & Sanitation
Water to the People
One of India’s biggest challenges is providing clean water to all of its 1.3 billion citizens.
IMPACT INDIA
Troubled Water
One of India’s largest, and most intractable, challenges is providing clean water to all of its 1.2 billion citizens.