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Expanding Pharmacist' Role
Top Paper (@NYTimes) Urges Expanding Pharmacists’ Role; NCPA...
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Expanding Role of Pharmacists
When the Doctor Is Not Needed: "Pharmacists are “remarkably...
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Tech takes another shot at health & wellnes forbes.com
At accelerator Rock Health’s “demo day” last year, Omada Health’s...
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Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes partial-remission chances go up with intensive...
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Traffic Safe Communities Network (TSCN) is a community collaborative...
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Happy Holidays and News from Health Equity Initiative!
See our November/December issue of HEI News! Happy holidays to all...
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Why I do What I do delfiugoconsulting.com
Last week, I was meeting with an HR Director for a wrap-up on an...
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Examining Developing Country Contributions To AIDS Response - Kaiser...
Examining Developing Country Contributions To AIDS Response -...
Examining Developing Country Contributions To AIDS Response - Kaiser Global Health
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Seven facts about America's mental health-care system washingtonpost.com
In the wake of the Newtown school massacre, many have called for a stronger mental health safety net as one way to reduce violent shootings. Shooters in previous massacres had unmet mental health needs. By widening access to...
Seeds of health disparities planted in early childhood
Poor reading scores of African American and Latino children may have their roots in developmental deserts in their homes. We know a poor ...
From their earliest age, children must have words articles.philly.com
Some mornings, as I go out to my porch to get The Inquirer, I trip over a box of gently used books that some anonymous donor has left during the night for children at my hospital. This has been...
Community Health and the Competition for Jobs governing.com
Community health is about more than just the quality of life. Increasingly, companies are basing their location decisions on the availability of a healthier workforce.
New Report Suggest Exercises Could Prevent Dizziness
I was recently reading an interesting article via Medical News Today that is concerned with those who are affected by persistent ...
Expanding Role of Pharmacists
When the Doctor Is Not Needed: "Pharmacists are “remarkably underutilized” given their education, training & closeness to community"
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Well-trained health care workers can do some jobs as well or better, and for much less money.
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Traffic Safe Communities Network (TSCN) is a community collaborative guided by the Public Health...
Changing the Conversation around Health Disparities
A recent Robert Wood Johnson Foundation interview with Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of PolicyLink, focused on the need to be ...
At accelerator Rock Health’s “demo day” last year, Omada Health’s co-founder Sean Duffy outlined not some nebulous wellness program sprinkled with rewards and no measurable results, but a plan based on a landmark diabetes...
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HealthBeat: Black risk of heart death content.govdelivery.com
Researchers say black men and women have double whites’ risk of dying of coronary heart disease, which is a narrowing of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart. You are subscribed to Daily HealthBeat...
The Democratization of Fitness--most people don't use or need health clubs
It's about time we realized that fitness doesn't need to be fancy. A simple walk in the park with a few strengthening and stretching ...
Leader Launches the "Democratization of Fitness" preventobesity.net
New Yorker Nancy Bruning is a certified personal trainer. She also has a master’s degree in public health. But she’s made it her mission to convince people they don’t need any of those things to get healthy — and she wants to...
Healthy People 2020’s December LHI Webinar: Environmental Quality
How does environmental quality affect health? What can public health professionals and educators do to address this Leading Health ...
Text Messaging and Smoking Cessation
Growing evidence suggests that text messaging can help individuals quit smoking. A recent review of 5 studies, found that smokers who ...
Texting may not always be the best method of communication, but it can be a promising support network for smokers who want to quit. Several recent studies show that receiving an encouraging text can help stave off a cigarette...