Showing posts with label public health advocates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public health advocates. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

How podcasts can help patients with health literacy, KevinMD.com

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by Robert Rodvien, MD When a person is told that they have a serious illness , they are similar to Alice falling down the rabbit hole. They...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Partnership for Patients - Win, Win, Win for American Healthcare

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It's called the Partnership for Patients .  (I like it already - it's focused on patients.)  It's a program being developed by...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

CDC Sees EHRs As Public Health 'Game Changer' -- InformationWeek

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Sometimes forgotten in the rush to install electronic health records (EHRs) is that improving population and public health is a major goal ...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

Nurse practitioners are charting a new course - Roanoke.com

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A turf war with potential economic, political and health care consequences is under way in Virginia. It has been gaining momentum for yea...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Hospital worker had deadly blood infection

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All Children's Hospital has contacted all the families whose children were exposed to an outpatient therapist who died Monday from a c...

AIM: Adverse event reporting is on the rise

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Although the FDA 's Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) database has been in existence since 1969, more than half of the incidents ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Two-thirds of states cut mental healthcare funds: advocacy group | Reuters

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Two-thirds of states cut mental health funding from their general fund budgets over the last two years, according to a report released by a...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: Rethinking Societal Attitudes About People Who Get Cancer

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In her 1978 book, " Illness as Metaphor ," Susan Sontag argued that societal myths and metaphors surrounding disease can kill. Ho...

Prevalence and Correlates of Eating Disorders in Adolescents: Results From the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement, March 7, 2011, Swanson et al. 0 (2011): archgenpsychiatry.2011.22v1

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Lifetime prevalence estimates of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder were 0.3%, 0.9%, and 1.6%, respectively. Im...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Texas Senate panel advances bill to protect nurses | AP Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

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A Texas Senate committee approved legislation Tuesday aimed at strengthening protection for nurses who report abuse by doctors. The bill...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

HHS Releases National Plan to Improve Health Literacy | HHS.gov

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Today, the United States Department of Health and Human Services released The National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy aimed at mak...

Helping Patients Understand Their Medical Treatment - Kaiser Health News

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An elderly woman sent home from the hospital develops a life-threatening infection because she doesn't understand the warning signs lis...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Patients find plenty of health information on line, but not all of it is reliable

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The Internet has no equal as an information storehouse. The trick is to know how to get right to a source of useful information and not was...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Patient Stories May Improve Health, NYTimes.com

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The only reservation that he mentioned was the same one all the other patients had — he feared that death would come before the perfect...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

CMS Initiative Will Link Incentives With Reduced Infections, Readmissions - California Healthline

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CMS is planning a "major multi-year financial commitment" involving Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers that aims to curb hos...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Nurses to Help Thousands of Smokers Butt Out During National Non-Smoking Week - Nursing Link

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When nurses intervene, smokers quit. That’s the message the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario ( RNAO ) wants to spread when Nationa...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

I'll Never Ration. Not Me. Not I. - NYTimes.com

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Opposition to health-care rationing is a little like opposition to growing up. It sounds great. It’s just not very practical. A society’s...

Nurse Leadership Helps Treatment of Patients With Multiple Conditions | All Sites Nursing News

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Team care led by a nurse appears to improve patient outcomes in cases of multiple chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and de...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Nurse-Family Partnership Celebrates 10 Years - WGHP

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Nearly 500 first-time mothers can thank a Guilford County program for getting them on their feet. The Nurse-Family Partnership program ...

Myths Fuel Dangerous Decisions to Not Vaccinate Children | Vaccination Decline | Bacterial Meningitis & Vaccine Myths | LiveScience

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Over the course of one summer vacation, Tyler Ludlum went from being a healthy 10-year-old, looking forward to the pool, to an emotionall...