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Barilla is a national speaker on using community based health strategies to improve the health and well-being of entire communities. [ 9 ] In 2010, she wrote a book, "A New Day, A True Story of Healing, Faith and Miracles," about her husband Tom's recovery from a traumatic brain injury while on duty as a firefighter in Upland, California.
On April 19, 1991, Dr. Bernadine Healy, newly appointed as the first female director of the NIH, announced her plan for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). [15] Planning for the WHI CT/OS study began that year. In order to promote cross-institutional collaboration, and to prevent the loss of funding to other women's health-related studies ...
The 10 Essential Public Health Services (EPHS) provide a framework for public health to protect and promote the health of all people in all communities. [3] In recognition of public health's commitment to provide a fair and just opportunity for everyone to achieve optimal health and well-being, the framework now contains an equity statement, centers equity in the graphic, and incorporates ...
Health indicators are quantifiable characteristics of a population which researchers use as supporting evidence for describing the health of a population.Typically, researchers will use a survey methodology to gather information about a population sample, use statistics in an attempt to generalize the information collected to the entire population, and then use the statistical analysis to make ...
Community health volunteers are members of a local community who have experience and training on the health problems prevalent in their community and care services available, in order to identify and link those in need with local providers. Community health volunteers may be referred to by different titles depending on their local health system ...
The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of health centers ...
Family planning saves lives and money by reducing unintended pregnancy and the transmission of sexually transmitted infections. [14] For example, the United States Agency for International Development lists as benefits of its international family planning program: [15] "Protecting the health of women by reducing high-risk pregnancies"
Among the settings that have received special attention are the community, health care facilities, schools, and worksites. [31] Worksite health promotion, also known by terms such as "workplace health promotion", has been defined as "the combined efforts of employers, employees and society to improve the health and well-being of people at work".