Our neighborhoods are literally making us sick. If we truly want to love our neighbors, we must work to create social environments in which people can be healthy. While working in community redevelopment and treating uninsured families, Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop discovered that we can promote the health of our communities by addressing social determinants that facilitate healing in under-resourced neighborhoods.
Our neighborhoods are literally making us sick. If we truly want to love our neighbors, we must work to create social environments in which people can be healthy. While working in community redevelopment and treating uninsured families, Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop discovered that we can promote the health of our communities by addressing social determinants that facilitate healing in under-resourced neighborhoods.
Breanna Lathrop is chief operating officer and a family nurse practitioner for Good Samaritan Health Center. She earned her doctor of nursing practice from Georgia Southern University and a master of public health and a master of nursing from Emory University. She is passionate about eliminating health disparities through improving health care access and health outcomes among vulnerable populations, and has previously published on the social determinants of health. Veronica Squires is chief administrative officer for Good Samaritan Health Center in Atlanta. She previously served as director of corporate development for Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta and as the Georgia director of ministry partnerships for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. She is a certified CCDA practitioner and serves on the advisory board for the Georgia Charitable Care Network.
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Foreword by Dr. Keri Norris Part One: How We Get Sick 1. Two Journeys to the Inner City 2. What is Making Us Sick? An Introduction to Social Determinants of Health 3. The Trauma of Poverty 4. Working to Death: Employment and Social Status 5. Kool-Aid in a Baby Bottle: Food Insecurity and Nutrition 6. Longevity and Learning: Education and Child Development 7. When Housing Hurts: Environmental Factors 8. The Challenge of Getting Well: Health Care Access in the United States 9. The Unmaking: On Moving Out and Rebuilding Part Two: How We Get Well 10. A New Beginning: What Will Make Our Neighbors Healthy? 11. The Good Sam Story 12. Poverty: Addressing a Distant Disease 13. Hired and Healthy 14. Growing Health from the Ground-Up 15. A Healthy Start 16. A Place to Call Home 17. Reenvisioning Health Care 18. Rx for Change: An Approach to Activism Epilogue: Toward a Better Way Acknowledgments Discussion Questions Notes Subject Index
Foreword by Dr. Keri Norris Part One: How We Get Sick 1. Two Journeys to the Inner City 2. What is Making Us Sick? An Introduction to Social Determinants of Health 3. The Trauma of Poverty 4. Working to Death: Employment and Social Status 5. Kool-Aid in a Baby Bottle: Food Insecurity and Nutrition 6. Longevity and Learning: Education and Child Development 7. When Housing Hurts: Environmental Factors 8. The Challenge of Getting Well: Health Care Access in the United States 9. The Unmaking: On Moving Out and Rebuilding Part Two: How We Get Well 10. A New Beginning: What Will Make Our Neighbors Healthy? 11. The Good Sam Story 12. Poverty: Addressing a Distant Disease 13. Hired and Healthy 14. Growing Health from the Ground-Up 15. A Healthy Start 16. A Place to Call Home 17. Reenvisioning Health Care 18. Rx for Change: An Approach to Activism Epilogue: Toward a Better Way Acknowledgments Discussion Questions Notes Subject Index
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