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Poverty's High Cost to Health
Published: September 01, 2009
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In the September 2009 Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity webcast, RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., discusses social and economic factors that influence health, including access to high quality health care, healthy neighborhoods and grocery stores. In the interview, Lavizzo-Mourey explores how investments in disease prevention can mitigate health disparities and examines how health reform legislation will affect low-income Americans.
"The Intersection of Poverty and Health" is the latest in the Spotlight webcast series available at the Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity Web site. Spotlight is perhaps the leading nonpartisan forum on poverty in the United States, known for presenting “big tent” ideas and solutions for reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity through its comprehensive Web site, policy events, and original research and surveys.
In addition, RWJF funded a recent report, The Poor Pay More: Poverty's High Cost to Health, which describes many social and economic factors influencing health and points to policies that have the potential for restoring the prospect of good health to the lives of the poor. The author presents compelling evidence that poverty leaves a broad footprint on the health of individuals—effects which have also been noted in published reports from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America.
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Listed below is one grant that supported this project.
| Grant | Awarded to | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Support for Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity: Foundations Ask Presidential Candidates What They'll Do for America |
Center for Law and Social Policy (Washington, DC) ID#: 64527 |
Actual award: $100,000 August 2008 to September 2009 This grant has ended. |
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Publication date:
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Summary:
This issue brief examines how work can affect health, exploring the health effects of both physical and psychosocial aspects of work as well as of work-related opportunities and resources.
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By:
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Publication date:
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Summary:
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By:
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Publication date:
October 02, 2008
Summary:
This issue brief examines the many ways in which housing can influence health, and discusses promising strategies to improve America's health by ensuring that all Americans have healthy homes.
Neighborhoods and Health
By:
Cubbin C, Pedregon V, Egerter S and Braveman P
Publication date:
Oct 2, 2008
Summary:
This issue brief examines the current evidence linking neighborhoods and health, the opportunities for Americans to live in healthy neighborhoods, and promising programs and interventions to make neighborhoods healthier places to live, learn and play.
Beyond Health Care: New Directions to a Healthier America
Publication date:
April 02, 2009
Summary:
There is more to health than health care--where we live, work, learn and play can have more to do with how healthy we are than the health care we get.
