The US is experiencing yet another negative byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic, with new surveying from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) showing enhanced vaccine hesitancy among parents of...
The nation’s public health sector is at a crossroads after two years of a pandemic that illuminated infrastructure shortcomings. And amid work to improve efficiency, governance, and clarity,...
A new study from the Oregon Health & Science University suggests that pediatric vaccination adherence is strongly related to parental vaccination status. These findings may be an answer to quell...
Jonathan Miller, MD, a pediatrician with Nemours Children’s Health, is dancing his way through RSV symptom checks in an innovative approach to patient education during the nation’s RSV and respiratory illness crisis.
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The US will need to leverage strong public health messaging if it plans to increase rates of flu shots and combat the racial health disparities in flu vaccination and hospitalization that has plagued...
Healthcare has hit the internet age, with a growing presence on social media becoming all too familiar as the need for public health information gets greater. But within that growth has emerged a new problem: the broad accessibility of...
In partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), YouTube has launched The-IQ – tackling health equity through Information Quality, a patient education video series scaling communication...
Neighborhood is yet another in a long list of social determinants of health garnering industry attention. Neighborhood is an expansive social determinant of health that ultimately intersects with numerous other social factors, making it a...
For a public health campaign to work, it’s going to have to meet people where they’re at. That much is apparent for Joshua O’Neal, the director of the sexual health program for the Fulton County Board of Health in...
As the medical industry continues to understand how social determinants of health impact overall wellness, the topics of environment and climate change have come into view.
SDOH specifically refer to the environments in which individuals...
Smoking was the leading social determinant of health affecting mortality and life expectancy, although income was another strong SDOH predictor, according to researchers from the Center for Population...
Medical misinformation has been spreading rapidly nationwide, causing many Americans to struggle to identify the difference between fact and fiction and hampering patient health literacy, according to...
More than 50 percent of Americans view COVID-19 vaccine mandates in educational settings favorably, giving credence to what could be an effective policy lever for supporting COVID-19 vaccine access and...
When an emergency strikes, like a global pandemic or a devastating natural disaster, mass education and direction becomes crucial. Federal, state, and local leadership lean on public health...
Nearly half of lower- and middle-income adults struggle to pay their dental and healthcare bills, underscoring latent issues with health equity in this country, according to a report from the Robert...
You are what you eat, the old adage says, but what comes of patients who live in food deserts or who otherwise struggle to access food? New strategies to tackle the social determinants of health are...
As more non-profit hospitals gear up for a new year of addressing the social determinants of health, they have begun issuing notices for completing their community health needs assessments...
Community health program leaders need to develop better measures to assess the success and efficacy of projects that address the social determinants of health, according to a study recently published...
Hospitals play an important role in addressing transportation barriers, patient care access, and other social determinants of health, according to a recent report from the American Hospital...
The AHA has published a toolkit to help drive community health and improve patient outreach efforts in rural regions and vulnerable urban communities.
As healthcare becomes increasingly value-based,...
