#socialdeterminants
The Tempe Community Council has unveiled an ambitious 2025–26 plan that promises to expand crucial services and ensure financial stability amid evolving community needs.

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#TempeMaricopaCounty #AZ #YouthPrevention #CitizenPortal #SocialDeterminants #CommunitySupport
Tempe Community Council lays out 2025–26 priorities, expands direct services and outlines funding plan
Tempe Community Council presented a 2025–26 strategic direction to the City Council, highlighting program growth (Threads, Open Horizons, Triple P, VITA), a tested three-year renewal funding process, and stable audited finances despite a $68,000 net-asset decline.
citizenportal.ai
February 14, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Underserved communities face barriers to cervical cancer screening that go far beyond healthcare.

Equitable prevention means addressing structural barriers.
#CBIGSCREEN #HealthEquity #CervicalCancer #SocialDeterminants #TransHealth #NonBinary
February 12, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Mental health isn’t just personal. It’s systemic. From work and housing to education and inequality, distress is often built into the structure of society.
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#MentalHealth #MentalHealthSystems #PublicHealth #SocialDeterminants #Society
Mental Health Systems: Why Distress Is Structural, Not Just Personal - Interconnected Earth
Mental health has become a key topic in modern life but it has been made personal, forgetting how Mental Health Systems shape distress.
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February 11, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Does your zip code influence your health more than your genetic code? 🧬🏘️
Scientific evidence suggests that where you live determines your risk of chronic disease just as much as your biology.
A thread on #SocialDeterminants and #GlobalHealth. 🧵 1/4
February 8, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital reveals alarming trends in community health, highlighting that social conditions like food security and housing stability are now the region's top concerns.

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#CT #SocialDeterminants #ChildhoodObesity #HealthAccess #CitizenPortal
Charlotte Hungerford hospital presents needs assessment; Fit Together highlights social-determinant interventions
Hospital representatives told the Northwest Hills Council that social determinants — housing, food access, economic stress and related service access — are now the region’s top health concerns. Fit Together presenters called for local collaboration to address rising childhood obesity and provider shortages.
citizenportal.ai
January 23, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Mental health is shaped by where we live, work, and belong.

Exclusion and insecurity harm wellbeing. Supportive environments are not a privilege.

They are essential.

#MentalHealthEquity #SocialDeterminants #ExpertsByExperience
January 12, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Lincoln Hospital is breaking new ground by connecting patients facing housing instability with essential medical and recovery support, ensuring that health care doesn't stop at the hospital door.

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#Bronx #NY #SocialDeterminants #BronxHousing #HealthAccess #ChronicIllnessSupport
Lincoln Hospital outlines supports for patients facing housing instability and post‑operative recovery
Dr. Aki Fisher described Lincoln’s screening for social determinants, referral partnerships for medical respite and safety‑net and 'home for health' programs that link patients with housing resources to support recovery after procedures and manage chronic illness.
citizenportal.ai
January 4, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Population health programs targeting health-related social needs may function as temporary relief. Sustainable improvements require addressing underlying systemic barriers in #SocialDeterminants. ja.ma/4oW83w6
Rethinking Social Needs and Health Care Utilization
Sidebottom and colleagues1 examined the association between health-related social needs (HRSNs) and health care utilization within the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) model, a national demonstration designed to test whether screening for and addressing social needs could reduce avoidable health...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Only 4% of older adults hospitalized with heart failure or COPD had a documented social needs diagnosis—yet those who did faced significantly higher odds of ED visits or hospital readmissions. #SocialDeterminants #HealthEquity #HospitalReadmissions rdcu.be/eNGYs
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Food and healthcare aren’t optional #budget lines. Pretending basic needs are negotiable engineers harm. Dividing “deserving” vs “everyone else” just keeps people fighting each other instead of seeing who’s pulling resources upward.
#publichealth #socialdeterminants
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November 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The Gravity Project is paving the way for a groundbreaking approach to standardize social determinants of health data, but key challenges remain for community organizations.

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#CO #DataStandardization #CitizenPortal #SocialDeterminants #HealthInteroperability
Gravity Project presentation prompts COSHI alignment questions at Colorado health IT work group
At a September Health IT Data Governance Work Group meeting, Corey Smith of the Gravity Project described standards for social determinants of health (SDOH) data. COSHI staff said they are aligning FHIR components and assessments to Gravity standards; participants discussed mapping nonstandard assessments, implementation tiers and barriers faced by
citizenportal.ai
October 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
October 17th is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - Sharing #TheNCCIH "Social Determinants” resource collection to help spread awareness - loom.ly/3R0y0WY

See also: loom.ly/FltcFi8

#SDoH #EndPoverty #SocialDeterminants #HealthEquity
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🔍 A new study found that pregnant people in the most disadvantaged U.S. neighborhoods had a 73% ⬆️ risk of severe complications during delivery compared to those in the least disadvantaged areas.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41024747/

#MaternalHealth #HealthEquity #PublicHealth #SMM #SocialDeterminants
October 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Healthy communities address social determinants like poverty, discrimination, and exclusion.

They ensure care for one another, make support accessible, and center lived experience in shaping the systems that serve them.

#socialdeterminants #healthycommunities #culturallyrelevantsupport
October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Simultaneous exposure to socioeconomic disadvantages predicts poorer cardiovascular health among Brazilian adolescents—highlighting the urgent need to address social inequities early.
Read more: https://ow.ly/Lwsi50WTiN8

#YouthHealth #SocialDeterminants #HeartHealth #CardioSky #MedSky
September 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Have you registered for Putting Care at the Center 2025 yet?

We’re especially excited about the MLP workshops, including “Advancing perinatal health through medical-legal partnerships!” 🏥⚖️

Join us!📍 Oct 15–17 | Portland, OR
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#MLP #PerinatalHealth #SocialDeterminants #HealthJustice
September 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.

Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It was a great honour to chair the panel discussion at the High‑Level Interactive Dialogue on the social, economic & environmental determinants of health inside UN HQ in New York 🌍
#socialdeterminants #healthequity
September 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"Rising homelessness, single-parent families, dual-income families with rising cost of living - it's much harder to tend to children's basic needs like healthy food." - Dr. Kagalwalla
Listen: https://envirohealthpodcast.co.uk/episode/-OYf49y2BEf1TJ8R4Caz
#SocialDeterminants #ChildPoverty
September 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
is anyone in Baltimore and want the stack of books? They are free!! #epidemiology #injury #stats #PublicHealth #textbooks #racism #SocialDeterminants not a prof anymore and don’t need these. and yes, you gotta take em all. the shipping cost is crazy but if you want to pay it, i will ship
August 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM