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- Title
Social Determinants of Health in Public Health Practice: Case Study of Rent Stipends to Augment Tuberculosis Cluster Management.
- Authors
Grande, Katarina M.; Hunter, Paul; Biedrzycki, Paul A.; Swain, Geoffrey R.
- Abstract
Precariously housed patients with tuberculosis (TB) may transmit TB while moving between various relatives' or friends' homes. Here, we describe the experience of the City of Milwaukee Health Department with leveraging funding not traditionally used for housing to help contain a TB cluster embedded in an environment of housing instability.
- Subjects
WISCONSIN; TUBERCULOSIS prevention; TUBERCULOSIS treatment; ENDOWMENTS; HOMELESSNESS; HOUSING; POVERTY; PUBLIC health; PUBLIC welfare; SOCIAL networks; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CONTACT tracing; HEALTH &; social status
- Publication
Journal of Health Care for the Poor & Underserved, 2014, Vol 25, Issue 4, p1799
- ISSN
1049-2089
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hpu.2014.0166