A new set of life expectancy maps released today illustrates that opportunities to lead a long and healthy life can vary dramatically based on where you live. For example, life expectancy differs by 20 years in the 5.5 miles it takes to drive between the Richmond, Va neighborhoods of Westover Hills and Gilpin and by…
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The greater one’s income, the lower one’s likelihood of disease and premature death. Americans at all income levels are less healthy than those with higher incomes. Not only is income associated with better health, but wealth affects health as well. Though it is easy to imagine how health is tied to income for the very…
Can we spend less on health by investing in education? Americans without a high school diploma are living sicker, shorter lives than they did in the 1990s, and spending on programs like Medicare and Medicaid is expected to steadily rise each year over the next decade. A new set of policy briefs released today explores…
A short distance can lead to a large difference in life expectancy. This is the focus of the Center’s life expectancy mapping project, a study that illustrates through media-friendly maps the vastly different health outcomes experienced by Americans living just a few miles apart. On March 4, 2015, the Center released the first in a…
By Valerie Burrell-Muhammad, Dr. Mom, Community Researcher and Engaging Richmond team member The world of academia and research is a challenge for those who are not so blessed to work in that realm day in and day out. As a community researcher with Engaging Richmond (ER), we welcome the opportunity to help shape a better…
Civic engagement is at the core of both the Informed Neighbors Corps, a team of Creighton Court residents working to promote transparency and the well-being of residents throughout the redevelopment of Church Hill North and Engaging Richmond, a community-academic partnership comprised of East End residents and VCU Center on Society and Health staff. On Monday,…
Laudan Aron is a senior research associate in the Urban Institute’s Labor, Human Services and Population center. In this post, borrowed from the Urban Institute’s Metro Trends blog, she offers a set of guidelines for making community-based investments that promote health. Thankfully, the profound connections between healthy human development and the social and economic conditions…
Laudan Aron is a senior research associate in the Urban Institute’s Labor, Human Services and Population center. In this post, borrowed from the Urban Institute’s Metro Trends blog, she looks at the health of teenagers as an indicator of a community’s overall culture of health. Last week, I shared a starter list of principles that…
Mental Health First Aid. Since emerging as one of the top priorities in Engaging Richmond’s community needs assessment, mental health has been a focus of the ER team’s ongoing work. Recently, ER team member Chimere Miles (pictured above, third from right) became certified in mental health first aid training and has been training many East…
To mark the fourth anniversary of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), VCU researchers Steven Woolf and Alex Krist were invited to describe the influence that PCORI has had on their work and their perspectives on clinical research. An excerpt from their guest blog article on how their research has changed as they have engaged…