State of Health explores how communities, organizations, and leaders across Michigan are working to address the state’s most pressing health challenges. The series highlights innovative programs, partnerships, and solutions improving health and well-being for residents across the state. Funding for this series comes from a growing coalition of supporters, including Delta Dental Foundation and the Michigan Health Endowment Fund.
For many people, it's not always easy to find and buy fresh food. Culinary medicine initiatives aim to address that by increasing access to healthy food and building awareness of the importance of nutrition.
Distrust, misunderstanding, and disconnection often exist between at-risk communities and the healthcare system. Community health workers use deep knowledge of their communities to mitigate those issues.
Michiganders may experience dramatic differences in their quality of health due to a host of social factors. We took a look at some of those factors, and what's being done to address them.
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