Funding Opportunities to Support Health Initiatives
Voices for Healthy Kids is partnership between the American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This initiative has a focus on helping all children grow up at a healthy weight. The focus of the grant opportunities is on public policy that will impact healthy weight and healthy living among children. Voices for Healthy Kids has several tools on their website to help potential applicants prepare a proposal.
The National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO) is accepting applications for Health in All Policies Technical Assistance. This will allow health departments to receive support ...
Source: BHIC - January 22, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Erin Seger Tags: Scholarships and Grants Source Type: blogs
Reports to Influence Healthy Communities
This report presents research discussing stress as a contributor to health disparities. Included is information about how stress influences health disparities, the chronic diseases linked to disproportionate stress and selected interventions that can be used to address stress related disparities.
In relation to healthy communities, the American Planning Association (APA) recently released the Healthy Communities Policy Guide. This guide discusses the role of community planning in addressing the social determinants of health. This report also highlights metrics that can be used to measure success when planning a healthy com...
Source: BHIC - January 22, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Erin Seger Tags: Chronic Disease Mental Health Minority Health Concerns Public Health Source Type: blogs
Review of Primary Care Recruitment and Retention Strategies
Academy Health is a nonprofit organization focused on health services research published a rapid evidence review titled, What are Effective Approaches for Recruiting and Retaining Rural Primary Care Health Professionals? This review summarizes peer-reviewed systematic reviews discussing recruitment and retention strategies for primary healthcare providers in rural areas that were published between 2004 and 2017. (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - January 22, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Erin Seger Tags: General Rural Source Type: blogs
A look at health literacy from National Library of Medicine (NLM)
From NLM in Focus, a Look Inside the U.S. National Library of Medicine
Focus on: Health Literacy Check out the interview with resident expert Rob Logan, PhD, in the Office of Communication and Public Liaison at NLM to find out what’s going on in the growing field of health literacy. Logan is the co-editor of a new book on health literacy research and practice. (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - January 19, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Michelle Burda Tags: General Health Information Literacy National Library of Medicine News Source Type: blogs
From the CDC: Not too late to get a flu shot
While seasonal influenza (flu) viruses can be detected year-round in the United States, flu viruses are most common during the fall and winter. The exact timing and duration of flu seasons can vary, but influenza activity often begins to increase in October. Most of the time flu activity peaks between December and February, although activity can last as late as May.
Flu Vaccine Finder – find where you can get the flu shot near you.
Prevent the flu– YouTube video from the CDC. This informational, 1-minute-50-second video raises awareness about preventing influenza (flu), including receiving a flu vaccine every year. (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - January 19, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Michelle Burda Tags: General Public Health Source Type: blogs
From the FDA Office of Women ’s Health: Medicine and Pregnancy
The FDA Office of Women’s Health offers resources to help women and healthcare providers get informed about medicines and other products used during pregnancy. For 2018 the FDA Office of Women’s Health will continue to advance the understanding of women’s health issues, launch new research, and lead outreach activities to help women make safe and healthier choices.
In observation of National Birth Defects Prevention Month, you are encouraged to visit their Medicine and Pregnancy webpage. Please share the resources in this update to help pregnant women start a conversation with their healthcare providers about t...
Source: BHIC - January 19, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Michelle Burda Tags: General Websites Source Type: blogs
Behavioral Health Among College Students Information and Resource Kit
SAMHSA has released a new information kit for college and university prevention practitioners, health center staff and administrators. The Behavioral Health Among College Students Information & Resource Kit “supports substance misuse prevention and mental health promotion initiatives on college and university campuses.” It includes “fact sheets, extensive resources, PowerPoint slides, and more.” For a brief overview of college campus substance use, mental health, and the toolkit, visit the “Prevention Works on College Campuses” blog post by Frances M. Harding, Director, SAMHSA C...
Source: BHIC - January 17, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Annette Parde-Maass Tags: Mental Health Substance Addiction and Misuse Source Type: blogs
Managerial Perspectives on the Role of Public Libraries in Disaster Response
Disaster Info Specialist Program Webinar from DIMRC
February 8, 2018 1:30pm ET
Speaker: Michal Linder Zarankin, PhD, Adjunct Faculty at Virginia Tech
The Natural Hazards Center at the University of Boulder recently posted a summary by Dr. Linder Zarankin outlining her research on how public service organizations, specifically libraries, perceive their roles in disaster response. In this webinar, she will discuss managers’ perceptions of their organization’s role in natural disasters affecting their community.
Go to the DIMRC Disaster Info Specialist Program Webinars page for information on how to join the webinar an...
Source: BHIC - January 17, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Annette Parde-Maass Tags: Emergency Preparedness Public Library Webinars Source Type: blogs
NIH MedlinePlus Salud Magazine Now Available
The annual issue of NIH MedlinePlus Salud magazine is now available online and in print.
Salud, which means health in Spanish, is a free magazine of NIH and the Friends of the National Library of Medicine.
Salud brings accurate and timely information in Spanish and English on health topics to patients and helps explain how NIH turns “discovery into health.”
This issue covers—
Black Eyed Peas’ Taboo on music, research, and his fight against cancer
Journalist Liz Hernandez on how Alzheimer’s has affected her family
Breast cancer and Latinas
Latest asthma research
Tips for your doctor visit
Clinical trials
Sub...
Source: BHIC - January 17, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Annette Parde-Maass Tags: Articles Minority Health Concerns Multilingual National Library of Medicine News Source Type: blogs
Native Youth Website
The Indian Health Service has launched a website that targets Native Youth and adults who work with Native Youth. The Generation Indigenous Initiative will build resiliency and promote positive development through the use of partnerships and programs that offer resources, information and tools that focus on suicide and substance abuse prevention, sexual health/responsibility, mental health and professional development (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - January 10, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Children and Teens Minority Health Concerns Source Type: blogs
Social Determinants of Health: Transportation
Transportation and the Role of Hospitals is part of a series of guides and resources released by the American Hospital Association, Health Research and Educational Trust, and the Association for Community Health Improvement on how hospitals and health systems can address the social determinants of health. Transportation connects people from their origin to their destination, affects land use and shapes our daily lives. Transportation is necessary to access goods, services and activities such as emergency services, health care, adequate food and clothing, education, employment, and social activities. Because trans...
Source: BHIC - January 10, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Low Income Minority Health Concerns Rural Source Type: blogs
Be Her Resource: School Resource Officers and Girls of Color
Georgetown Law's Center on Poverty and Inequality and the National Black Women's Justice Institute announce a new toolkit: Be Her Resource: A Toolkit About School Resource Officers and Girls of Color. Designed for school systems and police departments, the toolkit is based on interviews and focus groups with girls of color and police officers. As the numbers of police in our schools steadily increase, so do the disproportionate rates of discipline against girls of color. This toolkit provides guiding principles and policy recommendations that are designed to improve interactions between girls of color and school resource o...
Source: BHIC - January 10, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Children and Teens Source Type: blogs
AHRQ Commits to More Progress in the Battle Against Opioid Misuse in 2018
A recent blog post by Gopal Khanna, Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) describes AHRQ investments over 2017, and plans for 2018 in terms of the opioid epidemic.
2017 was quite busy for AHRQ in the area of helping researchers, policymakers, clinicians, and patients better understand and battle against the opioid epidemic. “We wholeheartedly accepted the challenge from President Trump to find ways to stem the rampant misuse of opioids, and would like to share a few of those milestones.”
In 2017 AHRQ conducted data analyses to better understand the opioid epidemic, particularly its...
Source: BHIC - January 9, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kay Deeney Tags: Articles Public Health Rural Substance Addiction and Misuse Source Type: blogs
Higher Incidence of Diabetes for Black Americans
A recent issue (January 9, 2018) of NIH Research Matters is entitled, Factors contributing to higher incidence of diabetes for black Americans. The issue discusses type 2 diabetes and health disparities. In the US, black adults are nearly twice as likely as white adults to develop type 2 diabetes. To investigate potential causes for this health disparity, a team led by Dr. Mercedes R. Carnethon at Northwestern University analyzed data collected from more than 4,200 participants in the CARDIA (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults) study. The results were published in JAMA on December 26, 2017.
The study found ...
Source: BHIC - January 9, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kay Deeney Tags: Articles Chronic Disease Environmental Health Minority Health Concerns Source Type: blogs
NIH News in Health, January 2018
Check out the January issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research. In this issue:
Sound Health: New Music Gets You Moving and More
Did you know music can bring health benefits? Scientists are looking at how music makes healthier bodies and minds.
Cancer Care Gets Personal: How Tumor Treatments Are Changing
Scientists are learning how to target cancer-specific gene changes for personalized treatments.
Health Capsule: Experts Lower “High” Blood Pressure Numbers
After studying the results from hundreds of studies, experts re...
Source: BHIC - January 9, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kay Deeney Tags: Chronic Disease Source Type: blogs
