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Health Careers Exploration Club: An Upstream Approach to Improving Health Equity
(2022-04-27)Social determinants of health (SDOH), including education, employment, and income, profoundly impact health outcomes. Career exploration and development programs for youth provide an upstream approach for lessening the ... -
Health Careers Exploration Club: Improving the Healthcare Workforce
(2023-04-17)Career exploration programs introduce fundamentals of career pathways to youth and help them explore career interests, employment, and academic advancement. Youth from lower socioeconomic status (SES) have fewer opportunities ... -
Health effects following subacute exposure to geogenic dust collected from active drainage surfaces (Nellis Dunes Recreation Area, Las Vegas, NV)
(2017-12-08)The specific health effects of directinhalation of fine minerogenic dusts generated by natural soil surfaces remain poorly known and relatively little researched. To learn more about this exposure and its contribution to ... -
Health Literacy Improvement in Low Literacy Population
(2024-04-15)BACKGROUND: Health literacy impacts health disparities as it relates to a social determinant of health. There is little research on policies or programs to improve. However, not mutually exclusive, low health literacy ... -
Health Literacy Improvement Project
(2021-07-18)Limited or low health literacy has been linked with negative patient outcomes, higher healthcare costs, and difficulty in healthcare decision making. The goal of the Doctor of Nursing Practice project is to improve the ... -
Health Literacy Perception and Experience among Members of the Pediatric Nephrology Interprofessional Team
(2015-06-17)A project utilizing a twenty-six question web based electronic survey was conducted to examine a convenience sample of pediatric nephrology interprofessional team member characteristics, health literacy perception and ... -
Health Promotion for African-American Men: Improving awareness of the link between erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular disease
(2016-12-02)Emerging literature has shown there is link between erectile dysfunction (ED) and cardiovascular (CVD) disease. It has been suggested that ED is an independent risk factor for CVD. The presence of moderate to severe ED in ... -
A HEALTH PROVIDER NUTRITION EDUCATION INITIATIVE FOR OBESE ADULTS
(2019-04-22)Current statistics and trends for obesity shed light on the overall impact obesity has. Obesity is a global epidemic. This project highlighted the importance of providing nutrition education on the Mediterranean diet to ... -
Healthcare Like Me
(2022-07-26)Shortage in staffing in healthcare is a significant issue in our community and our nation. Unfortunately, this issue continues to be on the rise and will continue for years to come if there is not an intervention put into ... -
A healthy breakfast is best way to start the day
(2022-07-20)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is about the importance of eating a healthy, nutritious breakfast. -
Healthy Eating also is good for the planet
(2020-07-29)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is a discussion between the efforts of our community members to maintain healthy diets while trying to make a more sustainable ... -
Healthy Habits for Healthy Living
(1995)This is a patient education brochure designed to describe the development of food habits of the people of eastern North Carolina (written in collaboration with Kristen Borree, PhD, anthropology. It then localizes the ... -
Healthy Habits for Teens: Changing the Trajectory of Obesity
(2022-04-18)Teenage obesity is an increasing concern throughout the world. Providers and communities need to engage in programs that address this concern. Childhood obesity often precedes obesity throughout the entire lifespan. Healthy ...