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Team Profile Summary In King County, there are racial inequities in well-being that are influenced by such factors as: institutionalized racism, income, access to living-wage jobs,  access to education and resource-rich…

Team Profile Summary In King County, there are racial inequities in well-being that are influenced by such factors as: institutionalized racism, income, access to living-wage jobs,  access to education and resource-rich…

Team Profile Summary The Cuyahoga Place Matters team’s focus is to ensure health implications and equity considerations are at the forefront as policymakers and others make decisions that substantially impact…

Team Profile Summary Food justice is the policy reform focus for the Cook County Place Matters team. Our vision of food justice is of a food system where “nobody gets…

Team Profile Summary The Boston Place Matters Team frames its work around racism as a root cause of inequities in health and recognizes comprehensive, multilevel racial justice strategies as fundamental to achieving…

Team Profile Summary Equity Matters supports a vision for Baltimore City in which all children, youth, adults and elders have equal access to social, educational, political, employment and health, equal…

Eliminating Health Disparities By Addressing the Social Determinants of Health PLACE MATTERS is a national initiative of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Health Policy Institute (www.jointcenter.org).  The initiative…

Local Collaborations Implementing Upstream Solutions The premise for structuring PLACE MATTERS Teams on a local level was to establish community-based leadership that could focus on specific social conditions tied to…

Moving from Design to ACTION Since 2006, the PLACE MATTERS initiative has supported multi-disciplinary teams to address social factors that lead to poor health. The PLACE MATTERS initiative provides a…