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Unlocking the Promise of Public Health Surveillance Data

A process overhaul in creating and approving data use agreements is needed to help achieve the promise of health data transformation into actionable public health information more

Viral Hepatitis: The Alarm is Sounding on a Silent Epidemic

More Americans are dying from viral hepatitis than HIV/AIDS. National Viral Hepatitis Awareness Month is a time for all Americans to learn more about this silent epidemic. more

Health Care Transformation: Still a Work in Progress

Where does “health care transformation” exist? It's still an evolving process, but it is taking place. more

FDA’s Mini-Sentinel: Active Surveillance of Drug Safety

Mini-Sentinel is the Food & Drug Administration’s newest tool to assist in monitoring the safety of drugs and medical products. more

Guest Contributors

Health Care Transformation: Still a Work in Progress

Written by: Taylor Walsh

Posted May 10, 2012

Topics: Health Policy, Hospitals, Military & Veterans Health

Where does “health care transformation” exist? Google finds us 70,600,000 hits on the subject. Good luck with that. Is it out there in parts? On the horizon: in accountable care organizations; patient-centered medical homes? In gene therapy and epigenetics?

Healthy Food Choices and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Written by: John E. Courtney, Ph.D.

Posted May 3, 2012

Topics: Childhood Obesity, Obesity, Public Health

With the rapidly changing economic trends within the United States, participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has ballooned recently.

Dignity-Driven Care as the Driver to Addressing Health Costs

Written by: Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D.

Posted Apr 24, 2012

Topics: Aging, Chronic Disease

The goal of a more effective and efficient system of care is straightforward—better care at lower costs. The path to that goal has proven far more elusive.

Where You Live Shouldn’t Determine How Healthy You Are (But it Can)

Written by: Laura Segal

Posted Apr 17, 2012

Topics: Chronic Disease, Community Health, Public Health

Your health shouldn’t be determined by where you live, but two new reports show that where you live, learn, work and play have a major impact on how healthy you are and how long you live.