/

Health Care for All

Big changes to federal policy are cascading into local programs and breaking down barriers to healthier lives for some of our most vulnerable residents

More
13 mins read

Will hospitals become allies in the fight for clean air?

The Smog of War by Heather Shayne Blakeslee In Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 2013, a giant digital television was broadcasting pictures of a blue sky and white clouds: The toxic smog over the city prevented people from seeing the actual sky.  For years, some weather forecasters said the opaque skies were caused by “fog,” without

More
2 mins read
//

Environmental Effects

Patients as Person, City as Healer?by Nathaniel PopkinIn the earliest days of the Center for Community Partnerships at Penn, a project I was a part of for a few years in the mid-’90s, we considered (but never executed) a “misery/happiness index” for West Philadelphia. The index was an idea of the historian Lee Benson, the

More
3 mins read