PUBLIC MARKS from jds1pdx with tag "public health"

We have invented and developed a technology that effectively emulates a nurse counseling session. Delivered across wellness, disease management, behavioral health and medication adherence, our web interventions go beyond typical web health education content, infused with over 30 years of proven behavioral science research.

How can we combine the community values, social networking, and collective intelligence and information gathering of the wiki enterprise, with the critical science, professional competence and amplifying effect of expert systems, (take a deep breath) with the bold attempts to break down archaic or self-serving legal and political barriers to information the public needs — as symbolized possibly by the ‘Free Culture’ movement — in order to bring health care to the poor and rural populations in Asia or anywhere else for that matter?

HealthNewsReview.org is a website dedicated to improving the accuracy of news stories about medical treatments, tests and procedures; and helping consumers evaluate the evidence for and against new ideas in health care. We support and encourage the ABCs of health journalism: Accuracy, Balance, Completeness

Trust for America's Health (TFAH) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority.

Whole Health's mission is to keep people healthy, and if they become injured or ill, whether on or off the job, our goal is to get them back to good health as quickly as possible.

The Institute for Health and Productivity Management was created in 1997 to make employee health an investment in corporate success through enhanced workplace performance. It grows out of work done earlier under the "Two Pens" Project on Health Care Value, carried out jointly by the National Business Coalition on Health and the National Association of Managed Care Physicians.

This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health (OMH), offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural competency in health care.

Prevention Institute is a non-profit national center dedicated to improving community health and well-being by building momentum for effective primary prevention.

Employers are creating the Dossia Network to provide consumers with an important new health benefit: a lifelong personal health record that they own and control

Partnership for Prevention is a membership organization of businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies advancing policies and practices to prevent disease and improve the health of all Americans. We seek to increase investment in preventing disease and promoting health and to make prevention a national priority.

Mission: Improve the health status of the population by providing national leadership in the development, distribution and retention of a diverse, culturally competent health workforce that provides the highest quality care for all. Vision: A nation in which universal access and utilization of quality health care are provided, health workforce shortages are eliminated, health disparities are overcome, prevention is emphasized and health outcomes are optimal for all.

The mission of the Working Towards Wellness Initiative of the World Economic Forum is to stimulate greater business engagement in the global fight against chronic disease through employee wellness.

The overall goal of the Working Toward Wellness at DCCI Program is to improve the health and well-being of DCCI employees, retirees and their families.

Joelle Dunaetz, cWC, CPFT in North Plains, a Toastmaster, works with Naturopaths