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The Wellville Quadrant Chart: Looking Far and Looking Wide wellville.net/the-wellville-…

Wellville Gathering 2023 wellville.net/wellville-gath…

Who decides? A Wellville story in quadrant charts wellville.net/who-decides-a-…

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These data call for action at all levels, from Medicaid- and insurance-covered doulas to long-term strategies to eradicate systemic racism. The first step is to admit to ourselves that there's a problem.

For every 100,000 births: 173 babies born to the richest white mothers die before their 1st birthday. 350 babies born to the poorest white mothers die. 437 babies born to the richest Black mothers die. 653 babies born to the poorest Black mothers die. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

“I hate when people [...] tell us what we need, as opposed to listening [...],” says Dani Singerman, director of comms for @healthyharthub. Read more about how @TheCaseMade helped her collaborators articulate an aspirational vision for North Hartford: thecasemade.com/hear-from-our-…

This is a clear distillation of the complexities of providing public safety vs policing. The solution must be systemic and involve a dramatic shift in funding. "Sending Help Instead of the Police in Albuquerque" newyorker.com/news/dispatch/… via @NewYorker

This op-ed by @phdworkin highlights how 2 Wellville communities (Spartanburg and North Hartford) are building trust and improving child wellbeing - both of which are long-term investments in health. ctmirror.org/2023/01/25/gra…

"If you want [public safety] policies that actually work [and save $$!], you have to change the political conversation from 'tough candidates punishing bad people' to 'strong communities keeping everyone safe.' " nytimes.com/2022/12/12/opi…

"What I want our government to do," she says, is "invest in people, [and] think long term rather than vote cycle to vote cycle. People are addicted to drugs. The government is addicted to the next [election]."

Earlier this week at the @MilkenInstitute's Public Finance Forum, @edyson "predicted" that the US will reframe so-called "spending" - on things like healthcare, education, training, and so on - as critical long-term *investment* in human infrastructure. milkeninstitute.org/video/forecast…

"...keeping people healthy instead of trying to fix them when it’s too late – all that money delivers a huge return on investment." 2/1 pewresearch.org/internet/2021/…

Wellville founder @edyson: "The money one spends keeping pregnant/new mothers healthy, providing child care (and paying care workers’ wages that honor their work), educating children... 1/2

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"...improvements related to care services; and enhancements to the environment (such as greater access to green space, less polluting practices in local industry, and better health and safety conditions for workers)." 4/4

"...[C]ommunity power is linked to better prevention of disease (such as improved rates of immunization and reductions in cardiovascular risk factors); reductions in the severity of disease (such as lower infant mortality and positive impacts on mental health)... 3/4

ICYMI, read this report in Health Affairs co-authored by Wellville Advisory Board member @dr_tonyiton. healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13… "Policy reform must be at the center of population health. This requires communities to have power." 1/4