Agency, Belonging & Health
February 2020 - December 2022
A look at the medical evidence to see whether having agency (A) and belonging (B) can change the conditions (C) in which we live
Reports
I explored the bio-medical literature to understand whether having agency and a sense of belonging make good health more likely. This work was in partnership with the California Endowment. In December 2020, we published a report on the link between community agency and health and in December 2022 we published a Policy Insight article in Health Affairs on how community power could dismantle policy-based structural inequity.
Reports
The Bio-Medical Evidence
Linking Community Agency
and Health
Pritpal S Tamber
December 2020
Building Community Power To Dismantle Policy-Based Structural Inequity In Population Health
ANTHONY ITON, ROBERT K ROSS, PRITPAL S TAMBER
December 2022
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