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Volume 2021-06-08
CHI TIPbits
Timely Information and Points (TIP) for public health community providers from the Center for Health Innovation, New Mexico's Public Health Institute.
Greetings from the Center for Health Innovation (CHI), New Mexico's Public Health Institute. You've been recognized as one of the leading public health professionals in our state, which is why you have been sent our newest publication TIPbits. Every month, we will be sending out timely information and points to aid your efforts to foster better public health in the state. Feel free to share them with your networks and community. Thanks for all you do for New Mexico, and let us lend you a helping hand with TIPbits!
Professional Development/Webinars
The Colorado Health Literacy Coalition’s webinar Health Literacy's Impact on Law & Policy, June 9, 11:30 am MST (Click here to register.) looks at legal trends on patient understanding and SDoH. 
Watch a Public Health Communications Collaborative webinar on successful COVID-19 messaging in rural communities, and get responses to tough questions on COVID-19.
Brookings recently held a webinar on cannabis legalization, restorative justice, economic opportunity and ways to advance equity and opportunity through cannabis policy reform. Watch the webinar .
In emergencies, people living with disabilities bear greater burdens due to inequities in preparedness and response. Listen here. for ways Public Health can better and more equitably serve people with disabilities.           
Resources and Research
Health Equity: In the May Health Affairs, research looking at whether availability and geographic accessibility of pharmacies varied by neighborhood racial and ethnic composition in cities, including Albuquerque, found there are fewer pharmacies located in predominantly Black and Hispanic/Latino neighborhoods than in majority White or diverse neighborhoods.
Mental Health: The Bipartisan Policy Center has released results of a national survey on patients’ experiences receiving mental health/substance use treatment during the pandemic. It reaffirms challenges Americans face in accessing affordable and available treatment.  View survey results here.
Reconstruct Resilient Communities: ASTHO's Bounce Forward campaign challenges public health professionals to help communities recover from COVID-19 by being more resilient and equitable than before. Find new resources each month on rethinking food systems, expanding health service access and other relevant topics here.  
Environmental Health and Equity: The American Lung Association’s 2021 State of the Air report notes people of color are “over three times more likely than whites” to be exposed to polluted air.
COVID Communication: The Kaiser Family Foundation + Black Coalition Against COVID + Unidos US provide THE CONVERSATION, website. Find brief videos of Black and Latinx health care workers answering COVID-19 vaccine questions and other interactive tools/resources from leading organizations and COVID experts.
Substance Misuse: America's opioid crisis continues to devastate communities, so read how CDC's 10 Evidence-Based Strategies in Overdose Prevention can counter this in our new Journal of Public Health Management & Practice column.
Special Language Section
Special Language Section: Continued updates on changing language and terms in the field of Public Health:    
  • Structural Competency: “the capacity for health professionals, communities, and governments to recognize and respond to health and illness as the downstream effects of broad social, political and economic structures.”
  • Positive Disruption: constructive change in times of turmoil and which can benefit institutions or systems.
  • Collective Resistance: occurs when people choose to challenge injustice together.
Public Health and Business
How Corporate Executives View Rising Health Care Cost and the Role of Government. Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH) and the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) surveyed executives in over 300 large private employers on their views regarding costs of health care and health coverage and potential advantages/ disadvantages of increasing the government’s role in providing health coverage.
Financial Solutions Lab is innovating by showing how traditional financial organizations can work with nonprofits and entrepreneurs to improve Americans’ financial health. It finds candidates for its Accelerator program by asking start-ups and non-profits to apply to its annual challenge to identify solutions to a specific financial problem.