Social Determinants of Health

Hospitals and health systems can’t solve societal challenges alone. But they can play a key role in mobilizing and aligning joint resources to bring positive changes to low-income communities.

Housing managers and health providers are natural partners for health care programming, but misunderstandings and institutional mismatches can get in the way.

There isn’t an exact science to forming partnerships. The slow and sometimes messy process requires patience, allies, and trust.

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In Philadelphia, health care professionals and housing advocates are working together to deliver home repairs to low-income homeowners.

Shelterforce recently spoke with Angela Mingo of Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Rev. John Edgar of Community Development for All People to learn more about their health/housing partnership and how it came to be.

Though it seems the connection between health and community development is on everyone’s lips these days, the two sectors are really still at the beginning stages of learning how to work together.

Children’s hospitals in Ohio are making key investments to address a major cause of poor health: substandard housing.