Impacts of Housing Instability on the Health of Vulnerable Populations
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Research increasingly shows the deep impact that housing instability has on the physical and mental health of our patients. Scholarship has indicated the primary role that promoting housing stability has on improving outcomes in vulnerable communities and the unique strategies that institutions and providers can use to network individuals to housing opportunities as well as to wholistically support the unhoused, HUD-assisted families and residents of public housing.
In this webinar, Dr. Kevin Lombardi MD, MPH, the NCHPH team and colleagues presented a unique perspective to supporting these vulnerable populations. Through the lens of the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) we engaged with case studies, promising practices and the latest research and clinical recommendations to provide a wholistic perspective of how providers and institutions can promote the health and wellbeing of the unhoused, HUD-assisted families and residents of public housing.
Among the interventions covered were how institutions can utilize Community Health Workers (CHWs), inter-organizational partnerships and trauma-informed care to improve their quality of care.