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Public Health and Medicine

WEBPublic health and medicine approach the challenge of health and health care from distinct, complementary perspectives (Table 1). In medicine, the focus is on the individual …

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Evidence-Based Health Promotion Programs for Schools …

WEBHealthy People 2020 includes an objective to increase the proportion of elementary, middle, and senior high schools that provide comprehensive school health education to prevent …

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County Health Rankings

WEBThe County Health Rankings (CHR) provides data for nearly every county in the U.S. on four modifiable groups of health factors, including healthy behaviors, clinical …

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Role of Video Games in Improving Health-Related …

WEBAmong the 38 studies, a total of 195 health outcomes were examined. Video games improved 69% of psychological therapy outcomes, 59% of physical therapy outcomes, …

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What is Population Health and What Should It Do

WEBConcepts of population health have been spreading like wildfire in the health sciences, but what do they mean? Population health is a broad, collaborative movement to update …

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The Meaning of Population Health: Whose Population Is …

WEBThe term population health has been used increasingly in reference to efforts to improve the performance and outcomes of healthcare systems.1 With related terms such as …

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Defining Health in a Comprehensive Context: A New …

WEBDespite investments in health care, good health remains elusive for many people. Healthcare systems generally are disease-focused and concentrate resources …

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Systems Thinking to Improve the Public's Health

WEBImproving population health requires understanding and changing societal structures and functions, but countervailing forces sometimes undermine those changes, thus reflecting …

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The Right to Food: Building Upon “Food Is Medicine”

WEBDuring the past decade, the “food is medicine” movement has captured momentum and successfully acted upon evidence that a nutritionally adequate diet …

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Health Consciousness and Health Behavior: The Application of a …

WEBSelf-consciousness has been an important trait in personality research. It seems logical to investigate whether health consciousness, involving a similar self-focusing, might …

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Characteristics of Population Health Physicians and the Needs of

WEBHealthcare organizations are transitioning from fee-for-service, volume-based care toward value-based care and the Triple Aim. Physicians have critical roles as leaders and …

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Using Mistrust, Distrust, and Low Trust Precisely in Medical Care …

WEBTrust, mistrust, and distrust influence people's ability to utilize critical resources and make decisions that are best for their health and well-being. Trust is …

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Health Promotion and Managed Care:

WEBIntroduction:The purpose was to examine whether health-promotion programs offered by California health plans are a serious attempt to improve health status or a marketing …

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Human Flourishing: A New Concept for Preventive Medicine

WEBThe human flourishing concept suggests a more inclusive and socially responsive vision of disease prevention and health promotion emphasizing combined …

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A Role for Government

WEBThe role of government in health care has expanded over the years and influenced political discourse and policy. Whether this is an appropriate role has been contested. Still, the …

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Student Debt and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among U.S. Adults …

WEBStudent loan debt has become common for young adults in the U.S. and is correlated with poor physical and mental health. It is unclear how the accumulation or …

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New Estimates of Smoking-Attributable Mortality in the U.S. From …

WEBThe often-cited Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate of 480,000 annual U.S. smoking-attributable deaths (SADs), including 439,000 first-hand …

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Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to …

WEBBackground: The relationship of health risk behavior and disease in adulthood to the breadth of exposure to childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, and household …

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The Cognitive Burden of Poverty: A Mechanism of Socioeconomic …

WEBLiving in poverty is strongly linked to poor health and premature death, a reality that manifests in a roughly 10-year difference in lifespan between those at the top …

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