Community Voices from North Carolina's Healthy Opportunities Pilots Program: Implications for Designing and Evaluating Programs to Address Upstream Drivers of Health
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Description
Describes experiences of participants in North Carolina's Healthy Opportunities Pilots program, including enrollees, care managers, and staff at community-based organizations. The program tested impacts of providing services to eligible Medicaid members to address upstream drivers of health in 3 predominantly rural regions of the state.
Author(s)
Alida Austin, Katie Huber, Brianna Van Stekelenburg, Kody Kinsley, Rebecca Whitaker
Date
07/2026
Organizations
Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, Milbank Memorial Fund
Tagged as
Community and faith-based initiatives
· Food security and nutrition
· Housing and homelessness
· Medicaid
· Social connectedness
· North Carolina