“Adopting the charter aligns who we have always been as an institution with an internationally known framework and network,” Watts said at the time. He also predicted that the move would “raise UAB’s ...

In a recent Health Promotion Practice (HPP) publication (May 4, 2021), Rabbi Nancy Epstein, MPH, MAHL, professor in the department of Community Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public ...

As the analysis and examples in this report have demonstrated, a wide array of factors influences a community's health, and many entities in the community share responsibility for maintaining and ...

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As the US government distributes some of the most significant investments ever to improve public health, grass-roots organizations that work in underserved communities say they’re being overlooked.

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According to the American Hospital Association, more than half (58 percent, or 2,978) of US community hospitals are nonprofit and therefore maintain 503(c) tax-exempt status. The value of the tax ...

This case study describes and explains the development of health promotion in Canada, with particular emphasis on the social and political context. It explores how health promotion thinking emerged, ...

In Kenya, the informal sector represents 80 per cent of the workforce. Yet, despite its significance, health insurance coverage among informal sector workers remains alarmingly low, resulting in high ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Measurement Tools for a Community Health Improvement Process." Institute of Medicine. 1997. Improving Health in the Community: A Role for Performance Monitoring. Washington, DC: ...