Best Practices Lisa A. Massena, CFA Best Practices Lisa A. Massena, CFA

The Social Determinants of Health (and well-being)

Public policy tends to hyper focus on specific areas of people’s lives - whether health, economic stability, housing, etc. - as if each aspect of our lives exists in a vacuum separate from everything else. People need a lot of different needs met all at the same time in order for them to succeed and thrive. Public policy is starting to recognize the importance of those interdependencies and how they collectively contribute to people’s well-being, and that creates new opportunities for partnership and collaboration across public and private sectors.

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