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Articles from IPPO

  1. Mental Health in the City: Five Key Takeaways

    Mental Health in the City: Five Key Takeaways

    August 26, 2022

    IPPO Cities convened a policy roundtable to explore insights from the pandemic for city policymakers around mental health.  The event discussed how mental health is critical for a place’s productivity, resilience, and economic development, as well as hearing examples of innovative place-based strategies to promote wellbeing. Jeremy Williams Here are five key takeaways from the discussion. 1. Place matters The interface between people and the urban environment is fundamental for mental health.  Place fundamentally shapes our personalities, how we feel, and who we are.  While we have always known this, this insight...

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  4. Social capital’s impact on COVID-19 outcomes at local levels

    Social capital’s impact on COVID-19 outcomes at local levels

    August 17, 2022

    Over the past thirty years, disaster scholars have highlighted that communities with stronger social infrastructure—including social ties that enable trust, mutual aid, and collective action—tend to respond to and recover better from crises. However, comprehensive measurements of social capital across communities have been rare. This study adapts Kyne and Aldrich’s (Risk Hazards Crisis Public Policy 11, 61–86, 2020) county-level social capital index to the census-tract level, generating social capital indices from 2011 to 2018 at the census-tract, zipcode, and county subdivision levels. To demonstrate their usefulness to disaster planners, public health experts,...

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