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October 14, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Earlier this week, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), met to examine the role chronic disease prevention plays in improving health and, importantly, controlling health care costs. Speakers at the hearing included H ...
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A disconnect is evident—some task force-recommended services are not covered while other nonrecommended services are covered.
November 10, 2009 | Report/Video/Presentation Material
Nearly two-thirds rank prevention investments as important.
September 8, 2011 | New Public Health Post
In the U.S., the most recent data show that over 34,000 lives are lost to suicide each year, and over 350,000 people are seen in emergency rooms every year for self-inflicted injuries. To bring attention to this health issue, World Suicide Preventio ...
August 11, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The top three winners of the "I'm Your Community Guide!" Contest have been announced by the Public Health Foundation (PHF). The PHF contest was designed to identify model practices based on the evidence-based strategies in the Guide to Community Pre ...
November 3, 2010 | Journal Article
A tailored communication and intervention effort–the Fall Prevention Tool Kit–can reduce hospital falls, especially in elderly.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
While low levels of negative emotion or high levels of cardiorespiratory fitness are predictors of long-term survival in men and women, being both fit and not unhappy provides a strong combined effect, reducing premature death by 63 percent, according to this study.
July 6, 2011 | New Public Health Post
A recent commentary article in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that the biggest threat to public health actually may be funding cuts to programs outside the health sector. The author, Steven Woolf, M.D. , M.P.H., director of ...
July 1, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Budget cuts, fires and droughts have forced cancellations of many public fireworks displays for the 2011 July Fourth weekend, including almost every county in the state of Texas. Those cancellations have many public health officials concerned that a ...
June 16, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The National Prevention Strategy was released today. Required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the goal of the Strategy is to increase the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life. The plan includes evidence-ba ...