November 10, 2025
By Dennis Archambault Emergency food providers throughout the nation are bearing the weight of the halt of full funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The government is...
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September 23, 2025
By Dennis Archambault Often an idea is sparked by persistent observation: Low-income pregnant women tend to have poorer maternal health outcomes than society at large. What if we provide...
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July 22, 2025
By Dennis Archambault It’s not about politics, it’s about principle, notes James Bell III, assistant administrator for the Michigan Health and Human Services. As a health equity thought leader,...
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April 24, 2025
By Dennis Archambault Michele Calloway kept her word. And that means a lot to Otis Robinson, who is a Medicare client of hers. Ms. Calloway, Authority Health’s outreach...
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February 5, 2025
By Dennis Archambault The author Daniel Dawes, in his book The Political Determinants of Health, argues that there is a layer of influence over what has been known as...
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September 8, 2024
By Dennis Archambault It isn’t too much of a stretch to call chronic school absenteeism a public health problem. When you look at the root causes — the social...
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June 27, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, criticized the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s regulation that beneficiaries should not wait more than...
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March 25, 2024
Food is a healer, and it builds resilience. Both of these qualities are absent in populations who live with food insecurity and the malnutrition that comes from consumption of...
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February 28, 2024
Food heals. It comforts. It sustains. But good food is not found where many people who need it the most live. At a recent healthy food preparation demonstration at...
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February 26, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Credit Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities in Traverse City for fostering the vision and advocacy to create a healthier environment based in the preservation and distribution...
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February 26, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Healthy students learn better. Conversely, unhealthy students struggle to learn. Keeping kids healthy results in improved academic performance, through improved mental acuity, increased immunization rates, and...
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January 11, 2024
By Rep. Julie Rogers, D-Kalamazoo – Chair, House Health Policy Committee (guest commentator) Over the past 13 years, the people of Michigan have benefited from the Affordable Care Act...
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