Taubman Health Sciences Library Blog- Blog Retired
- Global Innovation – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 20, 2014)
- Local Innovation & #MCubed – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 13, 2014)
- Open Access Journal on Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
- National Medical Librarians Month 2014
- Suicide Prevention & Trauma on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 6, 2014)
- Radiation Oncology Journal Club (#RadOnc) – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 29, 2014)
- From the National Library of Medicine: Roosevelt at NIH
- Patients on the Right TEDMED Questions – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 22, 2014)
- TEDMED on Patient Engagement – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 15, 2014)
Category Archives: community health
Chemical information and the Jan 2014 West Virginia Elk River chemical release
From TOXNET: You may be aware from multiple news sources that little information was available about 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol at the time of the spill in West Virginia’s Elk River earlier this month. Since the spill, government and private sector scientists have … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, emergency preparedness, environmental health, NLM, pollution, risk science
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How Low-Income Americans Experience Health Care: Ranking the States
From the Commonwealth Fund: The first-ever health system performance scorecard focusing on low-income Americans has one overriding message: where you live matters. The new Commonwealth Fund report Health Care in the Two Americas, along with the accompanying interactive map,provides the first state-by-state … Continue reading
Posted in community health, News
Tagged health disparities, health policy, statistics, utilization
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Culturally appropriate care and health education
From the AHRQ Health Innovations Exchange from August 14: The featured Innovations describe three programs that provided culturally and linguistically appropriate health care and education to specific target populations. The programs include one that delivered a community-based, culturally tailored education … Continue reading
Clinical-community relationships as a pathway to improve health – Webinar from AHRQ
From the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ): AHRQ is sponsoring a webinar on how clinical-community relationships can enhance health care delivery. It will provide an overview of recent efforts on these relationships and the need for measures to evaluate … Continue reading
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Tagged AHRQ, health behavior, health communication, health disparities
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HealthyChildren.org en Español has launched!
Hispanics are the largest minority in the United States, so it is critical to address the health needs and issues that impact Spanish-speaking parents. That’s why the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has developed a Spanish-language resource to serve Hispanic … Continue reading
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Tagged consumer health, health disparities
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Two years after the tsunami in Japan, fear and mistrust of food and government
From the New York Times, an Op-Doc, ‘In Japan, a Portrait of Mistrust’: Two years after a huge earthquake, giant tsunami and nuclear meltdown ravaged parts of Japan, life has only seemingly returned to normal. Authorities say that outside the … Continue reading
Posted in community health, Law & public policy
Tagged environmental health, food & nutrition, global, health communication, risk
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A bumpy road to a soda ban
From the New York Times Well blog: Some of the country’s leading public health experts called Monday’s judicial ruling against New York’s limits on the sale of large sugary drinks a predictable setback in what has become a national campaign … Continue reading
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Tagged consumer health, food & nutrition, health policy
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Beyond dissemination: CDC Twitter chats
Never participated in a Twitter chat, but want to? Want to know about upcoming Twitter chats from the CDC? Here’s the information you need! For first time Twitter chat participants If you have don’t have a Twitter account, it’s easy to … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, consumer health, health communication, social media
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Twitter chat 1/16 on binge drinking
Join CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden for a live Twitter chat about CDC’s new Vital Signs issue on binge drinking. This report shows that binge drinking is a serious, under-recognized problem among women and girls. 1 in 8 women and 1 … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, consumer health, health behavior, social media, social networking
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Prevention Research Center update – Nutrition and obesity
From the CDC: New Research in Brief: The PRC Program’s Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (NOPREN) produced a supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine examining policies and processes that promote healthy eating. New Publication: PRCs’ … Continue reading
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