Force for Health Academy gets upgrade!
Student interns with senior faculty support are building the Force for Health Academy online resource for free use in the community. Under the leadership of senior editor, Claudia Meyer, the team is adding courses based on the community’s needs.
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The Juniata College Wellness Committee is a Force For Health in Huntingdon By Emma Hannan Since 2005, Juniata College’s Wellness Committee has been providing opportunities…
In the fight to end smoking, mass media efforts to change social norms have led to historic declines in smoking. But the tobacco industry isn’t giving up. These companies aggressively market flashy, new electronic and flavored products in hopes of growing the market among youth and young adults. Still, these individuals are not so easily …
The post Report: Latino Young Adults Distrust the Tobacco, Vaping Industry appeared first on Salud America.
The U.S. has a violent child death problem. Developing strategies to prevent violent child deaths death from firearms and traffic crashes is a demanding task that requires consideration of numerous upstream, interrelated, and tangential issues. To help safety advocates develop strategies to prevent violent child death, we compiled five frameworks to help: Understand and explain …
The post 5 Essential Frameworks for Preventing Violent Child Death appeared first on Salud America.
Since the 1960s, community health centers (also called Federally Qualified Health Centers) have made it their mission to increase people’s access to primary healthcare by reducing barriers, such as cost, lack of insurance, distance, and language. But beyond clinic walls, many people have big social needs, like unstable housing, that hurt their health. That is …
The post SDoH Screening Is Tackling the Social Needs of Patients in US Community Health Centers appeared first on Salud America.
Does someone smoke in your apartment complex? You might be inhaling your neighbor’s secondhand smoke. Inside multifamily dwellings, secondhand smoke can travel through doorways, halls, windows, ventilation systems, electrical outlets, and gaps around fixtures and pipes. Secondhand smoke, already a cancer-causing killer of millions, also might contribute to the spread of coronavirus. While there is …
The post How a Smoke-Free Policy Protects Apartment Tenants from Secondhand Smoke, COVID-19 appeared first on Salud America.
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