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USA: Communities And Health Policy: A Pathway For Change
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http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/24/2/339?ijkey=WeASqFnfr1zS6&keytype=ref&siteid=healthaff

[Interesting article but with a limited perspective on health
determinants...]

Health Affairs, Vol 24, Issue 2, 339-342
Copyright © 2005 by Project HOPE
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.2.339

PERSPECTIVE
Communities And Health Policy: A Pathway For Change
Judith Bell and Marion Standish
   Abstract

Improving the health system can reduce the effects of health disparities,
but it can do little to eliminate them. An upsurge in new research is
documenting the impact of physical, social, and economic environmental
factors: air quality, housing conditions, racism, relationship to community
institutions, and neighborhood economic conditions, all of which affect
health status over time. A combined focus on community and the policies
that affect communities’ environments presents opportunities for altering
and ameliorating the underlying forces at the heart of the determinants of
health. This Perspective presents examples of successful community
involvement and policy change

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