by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 17, 2017 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction In recent years, health literacy is increasingly viewed as aligning complexities and tasks with people’s skills and abilities. With this understanding of health literacy, there comes a growing recognition that we, as health care providers, need to...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 10, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute a broad and ambitious agenda for the world to achieve by 2030. Although governments are the primary drivers for implementation of the agenda, it has been widely acknowledged that public-sector...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 10, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Health communication, health education, and health literacy are rooted in a common understanding of human communication and share the goals of enhancing human health, improving health outcomes, and reducing health disparities. We have an opportunity to mobilize...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 6, 2017 | News
New National Academy of Medicine Special Publication Offers Opportunities for Improving Outcomes and Reducing Costs in the Treatment of ‘High-Needs Patients’ – Those Who Make Up 5 Percent of All Patients but Account for Nearly Half of All Health Care Spending.New N...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 5, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
TW: suicide If you are suicidal and need emergency help, call 911 immediately or 1-800-273-8255 if in the United States. If you are in another country, find a 24/7 hotline at www.iasp.info/resources/Crises_Centres. The US health care system is...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 5, 2017 | Commentary, Perspectives
TW: suicide If you are suicidal and need emergency help, call 911 immediately or 1-800-273-8255 if in the United States. If you are in another country, find a 24/7 hotline at www.iasp.info/resources/Crises_Centres. Introduction By Sandeep P. Kishore The...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 23, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Recent advances in cell biology and genetic engineering have changed the way we think about medicine. Indeed, we are witnessing a potential shift from the traditional paradigm of health care to one with greater focus on the possibility of regenerative and...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 19, 2017 | News
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today named the 2017-2018 class of RWJF Health Policy Fellows. Beginning in September, six health professionals will spend a year in Washington, D.C., working on health-related...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 19, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
As a result of the recommendations from the report Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation (IOM and NRC, 2015), a group of representatives from national organizations came together in a series of meetings in...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 19, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Case Study to Bridge the Divide: Upskilling Virginia’s Early Childhood Educators Over the past 18 months, the Commonwealth of Virginia worked to fully understand and begin solving some of the issues surrounding improved educational opportunities for early...
