Building Healthy Neighborhoods

Birds sit on a telephone line near Skid Row.

Housing as a hub for health, community services, and upward mobility

Stuart M. Butler and Marcela Cabello

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Clorissa Jones (L) looks on as Dr. Lauren Jansson (R) checks her six-month-old son Braxton at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, November 23, 2015. Picture taken November 23, 2015. To match Special Report BABY-OPIOIDS/ REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - GF10000257831

Building blocks for addressing social determinants of health

Stuart M. Butler

Monday, October 9, 2017

22-year-old Errol Samuels from Queens, New York, who lost the use of his legs in 2012 after a roof collapsed onto him at an off-campus house party near where he was attending college in upstate New York, walks with a ReWalk electric powered exoskeletal suit during a therapy session with Alexandra Voigt, a clinical research coordinator and therapist, at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City March 26, 2014. Made by the Israeli company Argo Medical Technologies, ReWalk is a computer controlled device that powers the hips and knees to help those with lower limb disabilities and paralysis to walk upright using crutches. Allan Kozlowski, assistant professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai hospital, where patients like Samuels are enrolled in his clinical trials of the ReWalk and another exoskeleton, the Ekso (Ekso Bionics) hopes machines like these will soon offer victims of paralysis new hope for a dramatically improved quality of life and mobility. The ReWalk is currently only approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in rehabilitation facilities like at Mount Sinai, as they weigh whether to approve the device for home use as it already is in Europe. Picture taken March 26, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY HEALTH BUSINESS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EA3S1RTR01

Nurses as intermediaries in the promotion of community health

Stuart M. Butler and Carmen Diaz

Friday, September 22, 2017

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It’s time to disrupt the existing hospital business model

Stuart M. Butler

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Librarians Bertrand Bobis (L) and Josh Soule (2nd R) teach senior citizens how to set up and use a Facebook account during a class to learn the software at a branch of the New York Public Library in New York August 13, 2012. Seniors, some in their 90s, could soon be making new friends on Facebook thanks to New York libraries offering classes to help the elderly learn, or brush up their social network skills. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION) - RTR36TKG

How public libraries help build healthy communities

Marcela Cabello and Stuart M. Butler

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Re-balancing medical and social spending to promote health: Increasing state flexibility to improve health through housing

Stuart M. Butler, Dayna Bowen Matthew, and Marcela Cabello

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Kyle Schwartz (C), a 3rd grade teacher, works with students Mckylah Lenkiewicz (L) and Juliana Enquist in her classroom at Doull Elementary School in Denver

Hospitals and schools as hubs for building healthy communities

Stuart M. Butler and Carmen Diaz

Monday, December 5, 2016

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Community schools: A place-based approach to education and neighborhood change

Reuben Jacobson

Friday, November 18, 2016

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“Third places” as community builders

Stuart M. Butler and Carmen Diaz

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Colleagues meet in a room overlooking the city

Why capital markets are tough for scrappy non-profits

Stuart M. Butler

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

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School-centered approaches to improve community health: Lessons from school-based health centers

Olga Acosta Price

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

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Social spending, not medical spending, is key to health

Stuart M. Butler

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

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Using intermediaries to improve health

Stuart M. Butler

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

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Using intermediaries to improve health

Stuart M. Butler

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

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How can we know if social programs will work?

Stuart M. Butler

Tuesday, March 22, 2016