The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening all adults ages 45 to 75 years for colorectal cancer. The USPSTF notes that the risks and benefits of different types of screening tests vary.  Similarly, The American Cancer Society recommends that people at average risk of colorectal cancer start regular screening at age 45. For adults ages 76 to 85 years, the USPSTF and the American Cancer Society recommend individualizing the decision to screen for colorectal cancer based on a person’s overall health, history of screening, and preferences.

According to Healthy People 2030, in 2021, the most recent year for which colorectal cancer data is available, 58.7% of adults aged 45-75 years received a colorectal cancer screening. The same HHS initiative looks to increase the proportion of adults who receive a colorectal cancer screening to 68.3% by 2030. Despite efforts, in 2023 the percentage of patients 45-75 years of age who had appropriate colorectal cancer screening in health center settings was 41.10%.

This NCHPH podcast will review current screening recommendations and discuss challenges faced by health center programs and promising practices to increase colorectal cancer screening among public housing residents and other patients served by health centers in or immediately accessible to public housing, and it will help health centers to improve their health center framework maturity level by addressing needs such as outreach, equity, and patient care related to colorectal cancer screening.

Local Forecast - Elevator Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The podcast explores the HUD Strong Families Initiative and its efforts to strengthen, empower and improve the quality of life for HUD-assisted families, by focusing on three areas: health, education and economic empowerment. Built on a long standing Father’s Day effort to involve father in the lives of their children, the Strong Families Initiative now includes mothers, children and parents of all kinds and provides an opportunity for communities to deliver a wide variety of resources to families. 

Discussion highlights include HUD’s focus on health and wellness and the importance of partnerships between public housing agencies and other providers of HUD-assisted housing and health providers, including health centers and local departments of health. Our featured guests from the from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),  Office of Public and Indian Housing, Community and Support Services Division, are two leaders of the HUD Strong Families Initiative Maria-Lana Queen, Public Housing Grant Manager, and Lewis Dorman, ROSS Program Manager and a Jobs Plus Grant Manager.

In this podcast, we go over various techniques that can be used when screening for social determinants of health.

In this podcast episode, we discuss the difference between being overweight and obese, obesity causes, complications, and how food choices can impact being overweight or obese. We also provide information on what health centers are doing to address this issue.

Conducting a Social Determinants Of Health (SDOH) assessment is very important to improve patient and population health. In this episode,  NCHPH collaborated with La Maestra Community Health Centers to discuss  screening tools to assess SDOH.

On this episode of the Health in Public Housing Podcast Series, NCHPH interviews Teresita Lawson, RPh, CDE to further address various factors that contribute to the social determinants of health in addition to the effects that they have on persons living with diabetes.   

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On this episode of the Health in Public Housing Podcast Series, NCHPH   interviews Teresita Lawson, RPh, CDE to further address various factors  that contribute to the social determinants of health in addition to the effects that they have on persons living with diabetes. Music credits: Local Forecast by Kevin MacLeod