Task force will soften funding language on social determinants to avoid prescriptive county commitments
Members agreed to remove or rephrase prescriptive recommendations to "adopt and fully fund" an equity-focused health-in-all-policies framework, favoring wording that places such items in future budget considerations because the county faces fiscal constraints.
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Anya walked the task force to the recommendations addressing social determinants of health, including a passage that originally read "adopt and fully fund a multifaceted health in all policies framework to advance health equity." Members, including Erica Turner, said the county should avoid language that could be read as mandating future budget allocations.
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