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Eight Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Social Determinants of Health

Bill of Health

The legal opportunities highlighted above address federal , state , and local policy misalignments that have resulted in among other things, limited access to health care, unstable housing, limited economic opportunity, lack of employment, and harmful criminal records for minor offenses, all of which exacerbate the opioid crisis.

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Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed

Bill of Health

This disturbing health crisis is insidiously ingrained in the culture of corrections and surprisingly neglected in American public health scholarship. Indeed, legislators must heed this scholarship, not only for its potential benefit to inmates, but also for the welfare of the broader American public health.

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U.S. Virgin Islands Launches Health Data Interoperability Pilot

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CRISP Shared Services will help build the islands’ infrastructure for a health data utility (HDU) using federal funds from a number of federal health agencies. Why It Matters OHIT Director Michelle M.