Dispositional Optimism Protects Older Adults from Stroke
October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Higher optimism was associated with a lower incidence of stroke in a nationally representative study of people over age 50.
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Making Health a Part of the School Day
May 9, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A group of professionally-attired policy-makers, influencers and public health professionals in Washington started their day this morning the way students at Namaste Charter School in Chicago do every day—doing upper and lower body exercises and str ...
New IOM Report Identifies Key Strategies to Prevent Obesity
May 8, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new report from the Institute of Medicine, Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention, released today in conjunction with the Weight of the Nation Conference, finds that progress in stemming the obesity epidemic has been too slow, and that obesit ...
Federal Trade Commission: Advertising Practices to Promote Public Health
April 30, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy is about to celebrate its first anniversary. The Strategy offers a comprehensive plan aimed at increasing the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life. A cornerstone of the Nati ...
Happiness is Hot
April 30, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Happiness is gaining currency today, particularly in relationship to health and medicine. That’s what we’ve been hearing ever since Harvard School of Public Health researchers Julia K. Boehm and Laura Kubzansky published their report “The Heart’s Co ...
National Prevention Strategy Series: Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
April 24, 2012 | New Public Health Post
>>Follow the full National Prevention Strategy series on NewPublicHealth.org. NewPublicHealth:What is the scope of the problem of drug abuse in the United States and who does it affect? Gil Kerlikowske: Well, we know that it affects everyone. I’ve s ...
New Evidence Continues to Build the Field of Positive Health
April 17, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Today, the Psychological Bulletin published research by Julia K. Boehm and Laura Kubzansky from the Harvard School of Public Health suggesting that positive psychological well-being – such as life purpose, positive emotion, life satisfaction, happin ...
Office of National Drug Control Policy: Preventing Drug Use in Our Communities
April 16, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A NewPublicHealth Q&A with Jack B. Stein The National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy is about to celebrate its first anniversary. The Strategy offers a comprehensive plan aimed at increasing the number of Americans who are healthy at every ...
Life Purpose May Help Reduce Heart Attack Risk
March 21, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Life Purpose May Help Reduce Heart Attack Risk
Health Affairs Policy Brief on the Prevention and Public Health Fund
February 27, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation looks at the Prevention and Public Health Fund created under the Affordable Care Act of 2010. The fund was originally authorized to spend $15 billion over its first ten ye ...