Strategies for Health After Breast Cancer
Breast cancer deaths are 38 percent higher in African-American women than in white women. This 30-minute educatonal video addresses the special challenges faced by African-American breast cancer survivors and features survivors discussing their experiences with diagnosis, treatment, follow-up care and support group networks. It also presents guidelines to help cancer survivors make a plan of follow-up care that promotes a healthy lifestyle and helps to prevent cancer recurrence.
The video feat
Student Health Services at ISU
http://www.shs.ilstu.edu/
The mission of Student Health Services at Illinois State University is to enhance the health and wellness of our students, individually and as a campus community, in order to enrich their educational experiences and future lifestyles.
Health Design Technology Institute
The Health Design Technology Institute will be the home of a number of initiatives for designing technologies and ways of working to help people manage their healthcare.
This includes designing better products and systems to help the healthcare industry to manage the diverse needs of a number of people with long-term health conditions.
Training Methods and Continuing Education for Health Workers
This course in Training Methods and Continuing Education for Health Workers identifies the role of training and continuing education as an important component of health service and personnel management. Participants will be guided through the steps of planning training and continuing education activities for a range of health workers from managers to village volunteers. The course draws on real life examples from community-directed onchocerciasis control, village health worker programs, and pate
Delivering Service Indicators in Education and Health: A Proposal
<p>The Delivering Service Indicators seek to provide a set of indices for benchmarking service delivery performance in education and health in Africa in order to track progress in and across countries over time. It seeks to enhance effective and active monitoring of service delivery systems and to become an instrument of public accountability and good governance in Africa. The main perspective by the Delivering Service Indicators index is one of citizens accessing services and facing poten
Delivering Service Indicators in Education and Health: A Proposal
<p>The Delivering Service Indicators seek to provide a set of indices for benchmarking service delivery performance in education and health in Africa in order to track progress in and across countries over time. It seeks to enhance effective and active monitoring of service delivery systems and to become an instrument of public accountability and good governance in Africa. The main perspective by the Delivering Service Indicators index is one of citizens accessing services and facing poten
Delivering Service Indicators in Education and Health: A Proposal
<p>The Delivering Service Indicators seek to provide a set of indices for benchmarking service delivery performance in education and health in Africa in order to track progress in and across countries over time. It seeks to enhance effective and active monitoring of service delivery systems and to become an instrument of public accountability and good governance in Africa. The main perspective by the Delivering Service Indicators index is one of citizens accessing services and facing poten
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
This unit examines the role that Scots played in contributing to the developments in healthcare during the nineteenth century. The radical transformation of medicine in Europe included the admission of women as doctors and the increased numbers of special
Penn State's Deer Research Center studies herd health options
White tail deer studies at Penn State can be traced back to the 1920s. Throughout the years, a variety of research initiatives have focused on improvements in nutrition as well as studies in buck and doe growth, healthy reproduction cycles and humane repellents and fencing to protect forest regeneration. Current research at the facility includes a collaborative effort with the National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins, Colorado. This study focuses on the overpopulation of deer herds in m
Caring for Your Health
Dr. Emillio Carillo comments on healthcare in the Latino community. Program examines a number of health issues, with a focus on the needs of the Latino and Black community. Host Eduardo Diaz interviews Dr. Emilio Carrillo, cofounder of the Boricua Health Organization of Boston, to discuss problems related ...
Youth mental health: Is anybody listening? National Health Reform series
In the fourth of the National Health Reform Series at The Australian National University, a panel of experts discuss the issue of youth mental health. The panellists are Professor Patrick McGorry, Professor Ian Hickie, Professor Helen Christensen, Robert Wells and Carla Frost. The event is moderated by Julie McCrossin.
This video was recorded at The Australian National University on 28 July 2010. For more about the National Health Reform Series visit: http://www.anu.edu.au/aphcri/national_healt
Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet, and Global Health
Supercourse is a global, continuously updated repository of lectures on public health and prevention targeting educators across the world. Supercourse has a network of over 32000 scientists in 151 countries who are sharing for free a library of over 2500 lectures. Originally funded three times by NASA, and now by the National Library of Medicine, this "Library of Lectures" has been developed from passionate scientific lectures from across the world. The result is a technology for inexpensive, su
Fair Health: Health Inequities Within and Between Countries - A Global Challenge
The 20th century has seen impressive gains in health and life expectancy in many parts of the world – but these improvements are unequally distributed. In every country, poor people and those from socially disadvantaged groups get sicker and die sooner than people in more privileged social positions. Not only is there a gap in health between the best-off and the worst-off in society, there is a gradient in health running between them. This gradient can be linked clearly to social and economic
A new career in the health service
In this Podcast, Professor Beasley talks about the importance of optimism in the ever-changing field of Nursing. She also stresses the need to take risks to further your career.
Professor Beasley addresses the Nursing graduating class of 2006.
Education 320: Teaching PE & Health, Elementary Education - Purpose of PE; Warm-up activities
Class Session One, recorded September 24, 2010.
Immunization Hesitancy: A Rising Tide that Challenges the Public Health
Howard A. Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture Series, which began in 1990 with an endowment from Schneiderman, the third biological sciences school dean. The series brings renowned experts to UCI to speak about the social and ethical implications of advances in biology and medicine.
Public Health Students Speak about the Faculty
Students Speak: On the Department of Public Health Sciences Faculty
International Classification of Function, Disability and Health
This package was originally designed for undergraduates in Medicine at the University of Nottingham. It will also be useful to students in nursing, allied health professions and pharmacy. Practitioners in these fields, who are new to the ICF, will also find it a useful introduction. It describes the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), a classification system published by the World Health Organisation to describe health status. This system is widely used in r
4.4 Nitrogen: a developing threat to health
Water is a natural resource that is vital for human survival and health, although only a tiny fraction of the Earth's supply is available to humans and terrestrial animals. In this unit we look at threats, such as pollution, to water's capacity to support life around the world.
Designing Health Communications - Dr David Sless
Dr David Sless, CEO of the Communication Research Institute, gives a talk on health information design.
