Articles Tagged With: poverty
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U.S. Funding Targets Cancer Rates in Low-Income Neighborhoods
National Cancer Institute to manage a $50 million program to address structural and institutional factors of poverty related to cancer.
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Case Study Shows Positive Results of Intensive Care Coordination
For one client, care coordination assistance through a Transition to Success framework helped her go from being homeless to housed within 86 days. -
From Homelessness to Self-Sufficiency, Case Management-Style Program Works
Case managers increasingly recognize the importance of addressing social determinants of health among patients across the care continuum, but evidence-based interventions are scarce. One new program seeks to change this with tactics to address one of the most prevalent social determinants of health: Poverty. A novel care transition and community case management program provides an evidence-based standard of care to treat poverty as an environmentally based and treatable condition.
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Contraceptive Access Issues Require a Different Kind of Understanding
Contraceptive access initiatives often have focused on long-acting contraceptive methods, such as intrauterine devices and implants. These initiatives analyzed provider-level and financial access barriers to contraceptive methods. But this way of thinking has changed. Family planning experts now are examining access issues within a person-centered contraceptive care framework. This framework conceptualizes access according to what individual women want in contraceptives — not just around what they can afford and what is available.