JAMA Forum: How “Wrong Pockets” Hurt Health [newsatjama.jama.com]
Every month about 30 researchers, policy makers, and practitioners from 4 different sectors—health, education, housing, and social services—meet at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. We discuss policy reforms that would boost collaboration between sectors to improve the health of households and communities. We are especially interested in “social determinants”—nonmedical social factors affecting health. The focus of a discussion might be children’s mental health, housing...