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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY – 21 Wonderful Scriptures About Love

Angela Arner — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:40:25 +0000

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I can’t think of a better way to reflect on Valentine’s Day than to think of these scriptures and the joy of God’s love. The Bible is filled with promises about love.

ENJOY!

Memory Cross creates origami style Valentine’s Day tract that shares God’s love. (prweb.com)
Don’t miss your’s Valentine’s Blessing each day! (kirukals.wordpress.com)

Tagged: Bible, God, Love of God, Valentine, Valentines Day

For the Love of Life

Angela Arner — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:32:24 +0000

I wanted to share a short video with you: http://links.causes.com/s/clz8s0 Please take 5 minutes today to check out this video, be inspired.For Life,

Kristan Hawkins
Executive Director
Students for Life of America

Email me anytime at: director@studentsforlife.org

Pro-life movement continues to flourish in Belarus (deaconjohnspace.wordpress.com)
2011 Pro-life Person of the Year (deaconforlife.blogspot.com)
2011 Pro-life Person of the Year (deaconjohnspace.wordpress.com)
Abortion, the controversial topic. (analyticalgirl.com)
The Vision of a Pro-Life Generation (nationalreview.com)
Abortion Pill Available In Vending Machine At Shippensburg University (thedaleygator.wordpress.com)

Tagged: Abortion, Belarus, Pro-life, Right to life, Students for Life of America

Think Cultural Health

Angela Arner — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:11:50 +0000

The following was posted on the BHIC Blog. Think Cultural Health (TCH) is dedicated to advancing health equity at every point of contact. With growing concerns about health inequities and the need for health care systems to reach increasingly diverse patient populations, cultural competence has become more and more a matter of national concern. https://www.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/ [Office of Minority Health]

Care for Cultural Competency? Check Out the Office of Minority Health’s New Web Site (aa47.wordpress.com)
New CE Course on Culturally-Competent Healthcare with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals Added to HealthForumOnline’s Resource Library (prweb.com)
Cultural Competence in Health Communications (pdresources.wordpress.com)
54% of Americans believe the U.S. does not have the best health care system in the world (yubanet.com)
Cultural Competency in Care (journeytosatori.wordpress.com)
Holistic Healing: Addressing the Need for ‘Culturally Competent’ Dementia Assessment and Care (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)

Tagged: Cultural competence, Health, Health care, Health care system, Health Policy, Medicine, Office of Minority Health, United States

Health Information for the New Year from CDC

Angela Arner — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:17:17 +0000

The following was posted on the BHIC Blog.

As the New Year begins, resolve to make 2012 the year that you quit smoking. Help is available to help you quit for good this year.

Read more at: http://ow.ly/8gN00 [CDC Current Features]

Review some of the important contributions CDC made to women’s health in 2011: Read more at: ow.ly/8gByp [CDC Current Features]

Most American Smokers Want to Quit – CDC (inquisitr.com)
The 3 Jobs That Make Employees Likelier to Smoke (healthland.time.com)

Tagged: BHIC Blog, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, New Year, Smoking cessation, United States

MRC Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary

Angela Arner — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:21:02 +0000

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The following was posted on the BHIC Blog.

This year (2012) marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), which was announced during President George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address, and officially launched as a demonstration project in July of 2002. Over the past ten years, the program has grown to over 200,000 volunteers in almost 1,000 units across the country—ready to respond to emergencies and building resiliency in thousands of local communities through prevention, preparedness and public health activities.

Learn more about the MRC at: www.medicalreservecorps.gov .

Tagged: George W. Bush, Medical Reserve Corps, MRC, Public Health, United States

Ormie

Angela Arner — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:56:37 +0000

Laughter is good medicine, so here is something for your day. I’ve had days like this!

Click here: Ormie

Texting Program to Help Teens Quit Smoking

Angela Arner — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:16:23 +0000

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The following was posted on the BHIC Blog.

Teens love their cell phones. In an effort to help young smokers kick the habit, the National Cancer Institute is creating a new program called Smokefree T-X-T (http://smokefree.gov/smokefreetxt/) . It’s a free text message service that provides 24 hour encouragement, advice, and tips to teens trying to quit smoking.

Read more at: http://ow.ly/8hSOF [CNN Health, Janurary 1,2012]

Smokefree TXT Tries To Get Teens To Quit Smoking (boston.cbslocal.com)
Texting Becomes The Latest Tool to Help Teens Quit Smoking (mobilemarketingwatch.com)
NCI launches smoking cessation support for teens (nih.gov)
Smokefree.gov is intended to help you or someone you care about quit smoking (bespacific.com)
First Commercial Text Messaging Smoking Cessation Service Marks One Year of Operation (prweb.com)
Is your teen a smoker? (money-advice.co.uk)
How Do I Know I’m Really Addicted to Nicotine? (everydayhealth.com)

Tagged: CNN, Health, Mobile phone, National Cancer Institute, Smoking cessation, Text messaging, Tobacco, United States

New Financial Literacy Materials

Angela Arner — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:10:15 +0000

The following was posted on the [NATIONALFAMILYLITERACY-L]

The National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) has partnered with the Dollar General Literacy Foundation to teach families the value of financial responsibility through “A Day at Dollar General: Learn While Shopping.” The interactive online game recreates the experience of shopping in a real store and encourages children to learn while shopping.

By expanding the definition of literacy to include smart financial habits, NCFL and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation are teaching children to make informed spending decisions that will help them reach their goals.

“A Day at Dollar General: Learn While Shopping” is tailored to families and children, providing them with a fun and interactive game that teaches good spending habits. The game has four sections that are quick and easy to complete.

Go to http://tinyurl.com/6u9vynw

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posted by Sylvia Cobos Lieshoff, Ph.D.; Senior Training Specialist; National Center for Family Literacy; 325 West Main Street, Suite 300; Louisville, KY 40202-4237
‘ phone: 502.584.1133 ext. 156
7 fax: 502.584-0172
: e-mail: slieshoff@famlit.org
4 web: www.famlit.org

21^st National Conference on Family Literacy
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina

March 25 – 27, 2012
San Diego, California

http://www.famlit.org/conference/

Understanding Health Literacy (aa47.wordpress.com)
Kristi York Wooten: Can Buying a Book Help Kids and the Environment? (huffingtonpost.com)
January is Braille Literacy Month (lvib.org)
Financial Literacy with Robert Kiyosaki (josdejong.wordpress.com)
Literacy Multiple Dimensions in The Digital Age (skillsinfo.wordpress.com)
Low Health Literacy: Impact on Costs (thielst.typepad.com)
Patricia G. Mathes: A Literate Nation for 2012 (huffingtonpost.com)

Financial Literacy with Robert Kiyosaki (josdejong.wordpress.com)
Understanding Health Literacy (aa47.wordpress.com)
Kristi York Wooten: Can Buying a Book Help Kids and the Environment? (huffingtonpost.com)
Low Health Literacy: Impact on Costs (thielst.typepad.com)
January is Braille Literacy Month (lvib.org)
Literacy Multiple Dimensions in The Digital Age (skillsinfo.wordpress.com)
Patricia G. Mathes: A Literate Nation for 2012 (huffingtonpost.com)

Tagged: Braille, Dollar General, Information Age, Literacy, National Catholic Forensic League, National Center for Family Literacy

world’s biggest train set

Angela Arner — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:09:54 +0000

Please, when you open this click to view on the entire screen
TRAIN SET NOT TO BE BELIEVED”
Two German Brothers have put this TRAIN SET together.

BE SURE to click on the link at the end and view this in motion.

This is the world’s biggest train set. It Covers 1,150 square meters / 12,380
square feet. Features almost six miles of track and is still not complete

Twin brothers Fred Erick Gerrit Braun, 41, began work on the ’Miniature Wunderland’ in 2000.

The set covers six regions including America, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Germany, and the Austrian Al ps.
The American section features giant models of the Rocky Mountains, Everglades, Grand-Canyon etc
…and Mount Rushmore .

The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn.
The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long passenger ship floating in a ‘fjord’ .

It is expected to be finished in 2014, when the train set would cover more than 1,800 square meters / (19,376 sq ft)

and feature almost 13 miles of track, by which time detailed models of parts of France, Italy and the UK would have been added

It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages and wagons.
The longest train is 46ft long.

The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings and 4,000 cars – many with illuminated headlights. .
…and 160,000 individually designed figures.

Thousands of kilograms of steel and wood was used to construct the scenery…
The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system that mimics night and day by automatically turning them on and off.
The whole system is controlled from a massive high-tech nerve centre.

In total the set has taken 500,000 hours and more than 8 million euro to put together, the vast majority of which has come from ticket sales.

Gerrit said: “Our idea was to build a world that men, women, and children can be equally astonished and amazed in.”
Fred Erik added: “Whether gambling in Las Vegas , hiking in the Al ps or paddling in Norwegian fjords – in Wunderland everything is possible. “This 4-minute video is worth watching for this amazing stuff.

-wunderland. com/exhibit/ video/4-minutes- wunderland/

< http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/video/4-minutes-wunderland/ >

Medical Animation – Heal

Angela Arner — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:33:59 +0000

Truly amazing what can now be done.
This is beautifully done! From a retired surgeon. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=xMYjfb_M9wM&vq=large

Health Reform Hits Main Street – Video

Angela Arner — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:58:31 +0000

The following was shared on [CLAStalk-list]

A well done and informative new animated video produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation was recently produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The English version of the animated movie features narration by Cokie Roberts, ABC News and NPR commentator and a member of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. The English version of the animation is available at:

http://healthreform.kff.org/the-animation.aspx

Spanish language version

http://healthreform.kff.org/la-reforma-del-cuidado-de-la-salud-llega-al-publ

Tagged: ABC News, Cokie Roberts, Kaiser Family Foundation, NPR

A Message About Friendship

Angela Arner — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:37:06 +0000

If we could only get along like they do!

This is a video of a homeless man in Santa Barbara and his pets.
They work State Street every week for donations. The animals are pretty well fed and are mellow. They are a family. The man who owns them rigged a harness up for his cat so she
wouldn’t have to walk so much (like the dog and himself).At some juncture the rat came along, and as no one wanted to eat
anyone else, the rat started riding with the cat and, often, on the cat!
The dog will stand all day and let you talk to him and admire him
For a few chin scratches.
The Mayor of Santa Barbara filmed this clip and sent it out as a holiday card.
Click below -

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=D85yrIgA4Nk&feature=player_embedded

An “ahhh” moment about friendship [video] (checkthis1out.wordpress.com)

Tagged: California, Cat, Santa Barbara California, United States

New Year’s Resolution: Be Ready

Angela Arner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:16:37 +0000

The following was posted on the BHIC Blog.

Start the New Year right by getting prepared. Check out the daily preparedness tips from the CDC Public Health Matters blog during the month of January: http://ow.ly/8gj

[CDC Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response]

Tagged: CDC, Government, Preparedness, Public Health, Safety

A New Look for FDA.gov

Angela Arner — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:23:45 +0000

The following was posted on the BHIC Blog.

FDA.gov, (http://www.fda.gov/ ) the website for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has undergone a recent “facelift.” Spend some time looking at all the good information on this website, as well as the many ways to stay current with FDA developments.

FDA’s new blog, FDA Voice, debuted in late December. The biweekly blog will feature posts by FDA’s senior leadership and staff at home and abroad (https://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/ ).

Tagged: Department of Health and Human Services, Executive Branch, Government, Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, United States

12 for 2012 – Prevention Institute’s Most Popular Resources

Angela Arner — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:21:03 +0000

The following was posted on the BHIC Blog.

Prevention Institute has posted its 12 for 2012 most popular resources, including “free, online publications, tools and resources designed to help you put prevention and equity at the center of community wellbeing.” For a link – http://ow.ly/8sq9V .

[Trust for America's Health Wellness and Prevention Health Reform Digest, Jan. 11, 2012]

Coming Soon to PBS – “Designing Healthy Communities” (aa47.wordpress.com)
Trust for America’s Health Statement on the Final Mercury and Air Toxics Rule: A Win-Win for the Nation’s Health and Economy (prnewswire.com)

Tagged: BHIC Blog, Emergency management, Politics, Prevention Health Reform Digest, Public Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Trust for America's Health, United State

CDC Warns Against Sharing Insulin Pens

Angela Arner — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:03:33 +0000

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Due to a growing number of reports about improper use of insulin pens, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a reminder that the devices must never be used on more than one person.

Using insulin pens on more than one person puts people at risk for infection with blood-borne pathogens such as hepatitis viruses and HIV, which causes AIDS, the agency warns. Infection can occur even if an insulin pen’s needle is changed. http://bit.ly/ypsrBY [HealthDay]

Manufacturing Issue Causes Shortage of Insulin Pens, as Reported by DiabeticLive.com (prweb.com)
Insulin Delivery Systems: An Overview (diabetes.webmd.com)
Global Insulin Delivery Systems Market (Syringes and External Pumps) to Exceed $5.5 Billion by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. (prweb.com)
Mobile Medicine: post 2 (professionalcontextandpractice.wordpress.com)
Mobile Medicine: Insulin Pen (professionalcontextandpractice.wordpress.com)
Mobile Medicine: Post 3 (professionalcontextandpractice.wordpress.com)

Tagged: AIDS, Blood-borne disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HealthDay, Hepatitis, HIV, Insulin, Insulin pen

Tox Town Introduces New US Southwest Neighborhood

Angela Arner — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:37:16 +0000

The following was posted on the BHIC Blog.

Do you live in the Southwest Region of the US? The newest Tox Town scene, US Southwest, provides good information on the hazards of fracking, uranium tailings, and much more. The complete site , provided by the National Library of Medicine, is also available in Spanish.

Visit the site: http://www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/flash/southwest/flash.php .

Tagged: Food and Drug Administration, Health, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, Spanish, Spanish language, United States, United States National Library of Medicine

Coming Soon to PBS – “Designing Healthy Communities”

Angela Arner — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:44:17 +0000

The following was posted on the BHIC Blog.

Coming soon to public television: A new 4-hour series,” Designing Healthy Communities”, in which host/narrator Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, looks at the impact our built environment has on key public health indices – obesity, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancer and depression.

For more information: http://designinghealthycommunities.org/

[Wellness and Prevention Health Reform Digest, Jan. 19, 2012]

Review of Healthy People 2010 Shows Progress, but Disparities Persist (aa47.wordpress.com)
Healthy People 2020 Leading Indicators Released (aa47.wordpress.com)

Tagged: BHIC Blog, communities, Conditions and Diseases, Health, Heart disease, Obesity, PBS, public broadcasting, Public Health, United States

Health Literacy Challenge for Grades 6-12

Angela Arner — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:09:36 +0000

The following was posted on the HealthLiteracy Listserv.

The ¡VIVA! Peer Tutors of the South Texas Independent School District are conducting a nationwide health literacy challenge. Students enrolled in U.S. schools in grades 6-12 can submit a video promoting the web site MedlinePlus.gov. Video submission will open February 1, 2012 and will close March 23, 2012. Winners will be announced on the ¡VIVA! web site and Facebook page on April 16, 2012, and winning videos will be posted on the ¡VIVA! web site.

For complete details about the video contest please visit the ¡VIVA! web site at: http://bla.stisd.net/viva.html [NN/LM

Tagged: Education, Facebook, Literacy, PRWEB, Social network, South Texas Independent School District, Web Design and Development, Website

3rd Annual Kentucky Health Literacy Summit Building Your Health Literacy Toolkit — March 22-23, 2012

Angela Arner — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:44:31 +0000

3^rd Annual Kentucky

Health Literacy Summit

Building Your Health Literacy Toolkit

March 22-23, 2012

Marriott Griffin Gate Hotel

Lexington, Kentucky

Open to all those interested in improving their health literacy and

patient communications skills.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

- Cindy Brach, AHRQ

- Audrey Riffenburgh, Plain Language Works

- Al Cross, Institute for Rural Journalism

- Bruce Rector, Monday Morning Messages Interactive workshops will provide you with a health literacy toolkit of skills and resources:

- Health Literacy 101

- Usability Testing

- TeachBack

- Social Media

- Electronic Health Records

Contributed papers and posters will highlight local/regional health literacy activities.

For more information or to register, visit http://www.cecentral.com/live/3748

If you require special arrangements to attend, please contact Jane Bryant.

Questions? Contact Jane Bryant at (859) 323 – 5715 or jbryant@uky.edu

Jane Bryant

Health Literacy Librarian

University of Kentucky Medical Center Library

859-323-5715

jbryant@uky.edu

Understanding Health Literacy (aa47.wordpress.com)

Tagged: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Education, Health care, HealthLiteracy, Literacy, Public Health, United State

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