Cleveland has the highest poverty rate among large US cities, with more than 114,000 people living in poverty in 2019, including 37,700 children and nearly 12,000 adults, according to a news release from the Center for Health Affairs.
Those living in poverty face a range of daily challenges, including violence, lack of digital connections, housing, food, access to medical care, and behavioral health providers, unemployment, and more.
"Using technology to help solve the root causes of gun violence is a potential tool in the comprehensive toolbox necessary to develop real and effective solutions that will positively impact our great city and the surrounding region," Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb said in a statement, per Cleveland.com.
The Center for Health Affairs is establishing a Social Determinants of Health Innovation Hub, which aims to address structural racism and poverty that result in gun violence, behavioral health crises, and other factors negatively impacting the health of local residents.
The hub will use data from local and global sources to first address behavioral health precursors to gun violence, then find solutions in a range of areas, including climate change, access to health care, maternal and infant deaths, digital connectivity, education and workforce development, entrepreneurship urban development (smart cities), housing, and transportation.
"The factors that impact health are many and
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