Towards Health Equity in Connecticut
DataHaven's new report focuses on health equity, social inequality, and the impacts of COVID-19 in Connecticut communities.
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Four Recommendations To Ensure Connecticut’s COVID-19 Response Does Not Leave Anyone Behind
A new policy brief from the Connecticut Health Foundation offers four recommendations for ensuring that the state’s COVID-19 response reaches those who are most at risk.
Making Community and Clinical Integration Work: A Guide for Moving from Idea to Implementation
The Connecticut Health Foundation's report aims to help social service organizations and clinical care providers build partnerships to address the many factors that influence people’s health.
Understanding Community Health Workers: Who they are and why they matter for Connecticut
Connecticut Health Foundation's new reportdescribes the role of community health workers in Connecticut and their potential to improve health outcomes.
Funder Rountable Discussion - State Innovation Model (SIM) Health Enhancement Community Initiative
HARTFORD, CT -- On December 4, 2018, funders from across Connecticut came together to discuss an opportunity to create community-driven solutions to poor health, health inequity, and growing health care costs in Connecticut. The topic for the discussion was the Health Enhancement Community (HEC) Initiative. Access the meeting brief.
Connecticut Health Care Survey
Six health foundations sponsored the Connecticut Health Care Survey (CTHCS), a study of Connecticut residents’ own views on their health and health care, shows that many in Connecticut have access to and receive consistent, high quality health care. However, much work remains to be done particularly as it relates to chronic disease prevalence among adults and children.