Community Health
You are in the Community Health section of the Casey Foundation Knowledge Center, which offers resources that are either published or funded by the Casey Foundation. Resources include those that explore investments in connecting low-income families to affordable, accessible, and quality health care in community settings.
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Feeding Our Future: Growing Up Healthy with WIC
2009
This report by Children’s HealthWatch highlights the implications of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on very young children. The report details research indicating that WIC improves children’s health as well as reduces the risk of developmental delays.
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KIDS COUNT Indicator Brief: Preventing Low Birth Weight
2009
This brief describes five strategies for reducing the rate of low birth weight births: promote and support research on its causes, expand access to health care, focus intensively on smoking prevention and cessation, ensure that pregnant women get adequate nutrition, and address social and demographic risk factors.
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KIDS COUNT Indicator Brief: Reducing Infant Mortality
2009
This brief describes strategies for reducing the infant mortality rate, including addressing disparities in infant mortality providing pre-pregnancy education and counseling to all women and men ensuring timely prenatal care for all women; and expanding access to medical care for infants in the first month of life.
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Borrowing to Stay Healthy: How Credit Card Debt Is Related to Medical Expenses
2007
Financially stretched low-and middle-income families often find it difficult to meet out of pocket medical expenses, often turning to credit cards and accruing medical debt. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, this report analyzes data from a national household survey of low-and middle-income households with credit card debt.
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Connecting to Community and Building Accountability: Findings From the 2008 Survey of Foundations From Health Care Conversions
2007
This report is based on a survey of more than a hundred healthcare-conversion foundations on a variety of issues related to community engagement, governance policies, and leadership succession planning. Three-fourths of respondents report moderate to high levels of engagement with their communities through their boards, advisory committees, and coalitions. In addition, the foundations actively solicit input about community health needs. Nearly half of the more than one hundred respondents have conducted community health assessments, and almost 80 percent of those have reported changing their strategies or priorities based on the assessments.
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Race Matters: Unequal Opportunities for HEALTH AND WELLNESS
2006
This fact sheet offers a quick source for analysis and strategies related to issues of inequity surrounding health. It is part of a series of documents in the "Race Matters Toolkit" designed to help decision-makers, advocates, and elected officials get better results in their work by providing equitable opportunities for all.
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