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Getting Nutrition and Training Wherever You Can Find Them
When searching for public health training, you may need to look beyond departments or degrees with the specific topic in the title. Some public health degrees are general, with specific concentrations or minors. For example, one of the doctoral level nutrition...
NPHW: The Week of All Public Health Weeks
Since 1995, the American Public Health Association has coordinated a National Public Health Week during the first full week of April. The goal of the week is to raise awareness of public health issues and educate and motivate the public, policymakers, health...
Consultants to the ACO Rescue?
Last Saturday, Kaiser Health News reported on one way that health consultants are benefitting from last year's federal health care reform law. In this case, health professionals are seeking support for the development of new accountable care organizations or ACOs. It...
Make Business Your Business
In my business and organizational theory courses, I was taught that efforts requiring more than one person could benefit from management or business principles. For example, once responsibilities are divided among different people, money changes hands (or accounts) or...
How and Why Real Community Partnerships Matter
A central tenet of health behavior and health communication research is the full engagement of communities, called community-based participatory research or CBPR. CBPR at its best involves researchers working with community leaders to determine their health...
Lazy [fill in the blank]? Why Didn’t I Think of That?
Normally, I don't even hint at condoning laziness...and, I haven't really changed :). Meet The Lazy Environmentalist, Josh Dorfman. He found a creative and easily accessible approach to informing and promoting green choices. His latest blog entry topics (great...