Population/Community Health

Financing Community Health: Unlocking Investments to Address SDOH October 15 | 12:00 PM CDT
Webinar Series: The Patient鈥檚 Voice Integrating the Community Voice in Care Delivery August 15 | 11:00 AM CDT
Webinar Series: The Patient鈥檚 Voice Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems June 26 | 11:00 AM CDT
Webinar Series: The Patient鈥檚 Voice Enhancing Trauma-informed Care July 23 | 11:00 AM CDT
AHA Vice President for Clinical Quality Marie Cleary-Fishman describes how asking 鈥淲hat Matters鈥 helps to develop genuine partnerships for co-creating health.
Community health workers can become crucial links between hospitals and health systems and the communities they serve, helping patients overcome barriers to care. Read examples from a recent workshop, and view a resource developed by the AHA and National Urban League to help hospitals and health鈥
Ashley Thompson, AHA senior vice president of public policy analysis and development, shares some ways AHA is engaged in advocacy and public policy efforts to support national strategies and provide resources to advance community health.
On this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Nancy Myers, vice president of leadership and system innovation for the AHA Center for Health Innovation, and Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, discuss health equity and its relationship to community health.
Hospitals and health systems foster the development of healthy life all around them.  They are caregivers foremost 鈥 working tirelessly to advance the cause of good health for patients and communities. They are economic anchors 鈥 providing jobs and partnering with businesses to bolster the local鈥
The Department of Population Science and Policy, in collaboration with Hillsboro Community Child Development Center staff, created the Little Leaps program with the goals to foster interaction in families, develop awareness around brain development linked to activity and interaction, provide a鈥