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- In 2016, the Hogg Foundation started its Mental Health Peer Policy Fellows Grant Program to fund the recruitment and training of certified peer specialists, who utilize their lived experience of mental illness to analyze mental health policy for organizations across the state. Latasha Taylor, a member of that cohort and a mental health organizer at Grassroots Leadership, talked with Into the Fold…February 2018Mental/Behavioral Health, Advocacy
- The Best Babies Zone (BBZ) Initiative, launched in 2012 with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is a place-based, multi-site, multi-sector approach to reducing disparities in infant mortality and birth outcomes. Through community mobilization and local partnerships, the Initiative aims to increase health equity by supporting solutions driven by resident needs in neighborhoods most impacted…February 2018Maternal/Child Health
- The project team is developing plausible estimates of the causal effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on infant and child outcomes. The investigators focus on the effects of WIC on children after they are born; spillover effects from targeted children to other family members who are not directly eligible for the programs; and on the effects…January 2018Early Adulthood, Services & Programs
- Most racial/ethnic minority groups overall have similar — or in some cases, fewer — mental disorders than whites. However, the consequences of mental illness in minorities may be long lasting. (author description)December 2017Mental/Behavioral Health
- When comparing suicide in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) population to that in the non-Indigenous populations of Australia, there are significant differences in the rates of suicide and the age groups at risk of suicide. The etiology of these differences includes a history of colonisation and its aftermath including a burden of intergenerational trauma in the Indigenous…September 2017Suicide, Social/Structural Determinants, Historical Trauma, Systemic Determinants
- The coronary artery calcium score plays an Important role In cardiovascular risk stratification, showing a significant association with the medium- or long-term occurrence of major cardiovascular events. Here, we discuss the following: protocols for the acquisition and quantification of the coronary artery calcium score by multidetector computed tomography; the role of the coronary artery calcium…June 2017Heart disease
- Recent literature on racial or ethnic discrimination and mental health was reviewed to assess the current science and identify key areas of emphasis for social epidemiology. Objectives of this review were to: 1) Determine whether there have been advancements in the measurement and analysis of perceived discrimination; 2) Identify the use of theories and/or frameworks in perceived discrimination…April 2017Mental/Behavioral Health
- About 3.5% Americans identify themselves as lesbian, gay, or bisexual while 0.3% identify themselves as transgender. The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community belongs to almost every race, ethnicity, religion, age, and socioeconomic group. The LGBT youth are at a higher risk for substance use, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), cancers, cardiovascular diseases, obesity,…April 2017Chronic Disease
- ObjectivesTo investigate mortality and its causes in adults over the age of 20 years with intellectual disability (ID).Design, setting and participantsRetrospective population-based standardised mortality of the ID and Comparison cohorts. The ID cohort comprised 42 204 individuals who registered for disability services with ID as a primary or secondary diagnosis from 2005 to 2011 in New South…February 2017Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- Advance gender affirming care by applying best practices in organizational change to your health care setting. This guide details a health center’s journey through an organizational assessment process. With practical templates and facilitation guides, you can implement a similar approach in your health center. (author abstract) #P4HEwebinarJune2023January 2017Adolescent Health, Policy and Practice
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