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Title: Public/Private partnership 2 address housing & HC for kids w/asthma
Post by: LinksEtc on July 22, 2015, 05:22:27 PM
RT by @eliza68


"Public/Private Partnership To Address Housing And Health Care For Children With Asthma"
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/07/22/publicprivate-partnership-to-address-housing-and-health-care-for-children-with-asthma/ (http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/07/22/publicprivate-partnership-to-address-housing-and-health-care-for-children-with-asthma/)

QuoteThe driving idea behind this program is that these various interventions—medicine provided by clinicians, housing laws and conditions enforced by lawyers, and empowerment-focused asthma education provided by community health workers—can be more effective if their delivery is integrated.
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Commonwealth Medicine and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health are currently conducting evaluations of this program; preliminary results will be available in 2016.