
| Date: | JUNE 28, 2007 | ||
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| Manager: | Jennifer Ryan | ||
| Summary: | This National Health Policy Forum workshop discussion was designed to consider the existing evidence base around social and environmental determinants on children's health and take the discussion to the next level to consider action steps. Participants offered insights into their experiences implementing community-based intervention strategies and discussed some of the barriers to success, including silos across financing streams, lack of coordination among government programs, and the general absence of political will to address population-based solutions. The workshop also identified some potential changes that could be made at the federal level to begin to incorporate the social determinants model into considerations for expanding children's health insurance coverage. A report describing background on these issues and the discussion from the workshop is also available. Workshop participants included: |
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See also the report compiled from this session. |