Project HEALTH

Francesca MarangellSummer 2008

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

What is Project HEALTH?

• A series of Help Desks and Programs.

• Boston Medical center and their services.

Boston Medical Center

Project HEALTH’s Beginning

• Rebecca Onie and Dr. Barry Zuckerman’s story

My Role at Project HEALTH: Shift

• The Women’s Resource Center

• Who we served• The issues we faced• The people we met and

their stories: Tamoura and Eva.

Asthma Needs Assessment

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

Summer Polytech Institute

• Bi-weekly lectures and discussions on Public Health issues.

• Our most famous speaker: Economist David Cutler.

Reflection Sessions

• Weekly meetings with our Program Coordinators to discuss difficult issues

• Program development• Statistical analysis

Project HEALTH and the Hepburn Center

• The focus of the women’s 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

Project Health and my CareerExposure 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.