Project HEALTH

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Project HEALTH

• Francesca Marangell
• Summer 2008

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The Mission

• To lessen the correlation between poor health and
  poverty
• To connect social determinants of health to the
  health care provider
• To empower families through access to resources

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What is Project HEALTH?

• Boston Medical Center

• A series of Help Desks and Programs.
• Boston Medical center and their services.

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Project HEALTHs Beginning

• Rebecca Onie and Dr. Barry Zuckermans story

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My Role at Project HEALTH Shift

• The Womens Resource Center
• Who we served
• The issues we faced
• The people we met and their stories Tamoura and
  Eva.

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Asthma Needs Assessment

• Would a resource desk designed specifically for
  asthmatic children benefit the community at BMC?

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Summer Polytech Institute

• Bi-weekly lectures and discussions on Public
  Health issues.
• Our most famous speaker Economist David Cutler.

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Reflection Sessions

• Weekly meetings with our Program Coordinators to
  discuss difficult issues
• Program development
• Statistical analysis

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Project HEALTH and the Hepburn Center

• The focus of the womens resource center is on
  women and their families.
• Empower women by giving them the resources to
  succeed and grow healthy children.
• Targeting women in poverty

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Project Health and my Career

• Exposure To

• A clinical setting
• Public Health and Social Work
• The Massachusetts Healthcare system.
• The US healthcare system in comparison to other
  nations.
• Issues of poverty and health in urban
  environments.