The Office of Population Science and Policy, Executive Director, Sameer Vohra, MD, JD, MA, FAAP quoted in Illinois Times recent article What's Behind Bad Behavior? Thursday, October 12, 2017.
The Department of Population Science and Policy strives to protect the most vulnerable of our populations by participating in programs and projects that focus on early childhood development and health. There are both in school and out of school factors that change the way that young students learn and their ability to focus. Some of these things include sleep, stress, housing, and asthma. Our projects include: A program focused on household trigger reduction strategies for low-income families by using community health worker home visits aimed at reducing the emergency department visits of
SIU Medicine partners with The Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation and SIU medical students to address the legal needs of low-income patients and social determinants of health. This program focuses on the unmet legal needs of patients and pairs them with a no-cost lawyer that can help to address upstream, a non-clinical factor that affects health. This program introduces medical students to the complicated web of social determinants of health. It allows them to participate in a clinical setting, practice good bedside manner, and become more aware of factors that affect a patient’s
SIU Medicine partners with The Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation and SIU medical students to address the legal needs of low-income patients and social determinants of health. This program focuses on the unmet legal needs of patients and pairs them with a no-cost lawyer that can help to address upstream, a non-clinical factor that affects health. This program introduces medical students to the complicated web of social determinants of health. It allows them to participate in a clinical setting, practice good bedside manner, and become more aware of factors that affect a patient’s
