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Expanding Voter Rolls Could Improve People's Health, Experts Say — "High level of correlation" between voting and better health outcomes by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today September 20, 2021   share to facebook share to twitter share to linkedin   email article What's a good way to improve population health? One answer might surprise you: increasing the number of patients registered to vote. "There is a high level of correlation between people who are engaged in voting and better health outcomes," Adam Fox, deputy director of the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, said last week at a webinar on voting and health sponsored by the National…

Call for Book Chapters: Climate Change & Health Equity Justice Examining the Intersection of the Climate Crisis With Our Most Vulnerable Populations Summary Framed using the political determinants of health perspective, this manuscript will focus on the historical, contemporary, and future impacts of climate change applying an intersectional lens of health equity, advocacy, and solution-based actions for marginalized communities, domestically and globally. Current works highlight the deleterious impacts due to the climate crisis in under-resourced black, indigenous, and people of color communities. However, this book will advance the conversation of climate change effects on…

WORKFORCE AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT     Enhancing and Strengthening Public Health ASTHO and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at Morehouse School of Medicine, with support from CDC, invite you to apply to the Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health (DELPH) program. This new program will increase and strengthen participants’ visibility and exposure in public health systems, access to key networks, and leadership development opportunities. Program participants will be selected from experienced public health professionals who self-identify from an underrepresented group, including people of color, people with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ+ individuals. This is…

SHLI Lunch & Learn Taking Action: Advancing Conversations On Climate Change, Environmental Justice and Health Equity When: August 25, 2021 ~ 12:00 PM- 1:30 PM EST Topic: Empowering HBCU’s and Vulnerable Communities to Lead Environmental Equity Actions The Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at Morehouse School of Medicine and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have partnered to provide a bi-monthly lunch and learn series for legislators, policymakers, institutional leaders, and community advocates. This series will focus on addressing civic engagement, climate change policies, community mobilization, water quality, carbon emissions, energy and power…

Creation of a Longitudinal Legal Data Set to Support Legal Epidemiology Studies of Mental Health Insurance Legislation Megan D. Douglas , J.D.,  Samantha Bent Weber , J.D.,  Claire Bass , J.D.,  Chaohua Li , M.P.H.,  Anne H. Gaglioti , M.D., M.S.,  Teal Benevides , Ph.D., M.S.,  Vahé Heboyan , Ph.D., M.S. Published Online:29 Jul 2021https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100019   View article   Tools Share Abstract   Objective: This article describes policy surveillance methodology used to track changes in the comprehensiveness of state mental health insurance laws over 23 years, resulting in a data set that…