Health Literacy Insights for Health Crises
Introduction Typically, the authorities and experts on public health practices are public health officials. The public expects these officials to offer important health information and guidelines to prevent disease and promote good health strategies. In times of public health crisis
Read MoreHealth Literacy and the Arts: An Intersection Worth Exploring
Introduction In recent years, health literacy is increasingly viewed as aligning complexities and tasks with people’s skills and abilities. With this understanding of health literacy, there comes a growing recognition that we, as health care providers, need to improve our communicat
Read MoreA Proposed Framework for Developing Health-Focused Public-Private Partnerships Based on National Sustainable Development Priorities
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute a broad and ambitious agenda for the world to achieve by 2030. Although governments are the primary drivers for implementation of the agenda, it has been widely acknowledged that public-sector resources often fall fa
Read MoreImproving Collaboration among Health Communication, Health Education, and Health Literacy
Health communication, health education, and health literacy are rooted in a common understanding of human communication and share the goals of enhancing human health, improving health outcomes, and reducing health disparities. We have an opportunity to mobilize the wisdom, research,
Read MoreBurnout Among Health Care Professionals: A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care
The US health care system is rapidly changing in an effort to deliver better care, improve health, and lower costs while providing care for an aging population with high rates of chronic disease and co-morbidities. Among the changes affecting clinical practice are new payment and de
Read MoreBreaking Silence, Breaking Stigma
Introduction By Sandeep P. Kishore The NAM Perspectives paper, “Breaking the Culture of Silence on Physician Suicide” [1], brought together four unique voices from surgery, nursing, medical training, and the clergy to consider what had led Kaitlyn, a young medical student, to take h
Read MoreManufacturing Cell Therapies: The Paradigm Shift in Health Care of This Century
Recent advances in cell biology and genetic engineering have changed the way we think about medicine. Indeed, we are witnessing a potential shift from the traditional paradigm of health care to one with greater focus on the possibility of regenerative and curative treatments. Regene
Read MoreA Unified Foundation to Support a Highly Qualified Early Childhood Workforce
As a result of the recommendations from the report Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation (IOM and NRC, 2015), a group of representatives from national organizations came together in a series of meetings in 2016 to discuss how to work as a
Read MoreConnecting Stakeholders to Bridge the Divide: Upskilling Virginia’s Early Childhood Educators
Case Study to Bridge the Divide: Upskilling Virginia’s Early Childhood Educators Over the past 18 months, the Commonwealth of Virginia worked to fully understand and begin solving some of the issues surrounding improved educational opportunities for early childhood educators.
Read MoreAn American Crisis: The Lack of Black Men in Medicine
The current state of diversity within the United States medical workforce does not reflect representative numbers of the Black male population. Research data continues to reveal continuing trends in the areas of discrimination, incarceration, health disparities and mortality with resp
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