Opinion: Nail salon workers helped us turn the idea of community-centered health into reality
The young nail salon workers kept coming back to the clinic for the same ailments. We worked with them to fix the causes of their problems.
One by one, the young nail salon workers came to the HOPE Clinic in Houston battling serious coughs, neck and arm pain, and fungal infections in their fingernails. Clinicians would help them with these ailments — but they kept coming back.
Health care practitioners routinely see how social, economic, and environmental factors affect their patients’ health. Poverty, substandard housing, poor working conditions, lack of affordable healthy food, and limited places to exercise safely are just a few of the community conditions
