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/ … Continue reading »
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Health Information for the New Year from CDC
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 … Continue reading »
Texting Program to Help Teens Quit Smoking
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 … Continue reading »
A New Look for FDA.gov
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 … Continue reading »
Tox Town Introduces New US Southwest Neighborhood
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 … Continue reading »
Coming Soon to PBS – “Designing Healthy Communities”
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 … Continue reading »
Discussion Paper –Attributes of a Health Literate Organization
The following was posted on the HealthLiteracy Listserv. Institute of Medicine Health Literacy Roundtable released a discussion paper on the Attributes of a Health Literate Organization. This brief paper is based on the Roundtable’s November 2011 workshop on the same topic. http://www.iom.edu/Activities/PublicHealth/HealthLiteracy.aspx The item was posted by Cynthia Baur; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and … Continue reading »
Getting Patients to Take Charge of Their Health
[P]atients who were more involved in their health were less likely to smoke, be obese, get hospitalized or go to the emergency room than those who were less engaged. And while more affluent patients tended to be healthier than those who were poorer, patients who were more active in their own care tended to be … Continue reading »
