We're so happy to announce a new partnership with Healthcare Learning Innovations to provide faculty with the option to bundle the award-winning population health simulations, Sentinel City® and Sentinel Town™-- referred to as Sentinel World®, with popular Jones & Bartlett Learning public health and community health nursing texts.
Topics: nursing, Public Health
Today marks the beginning of National Public Health Week (NPWH), a nationwide initative to raise awareness for the importance of public health. NPWH also celebrates "the power of prevention, advocating for healthy and fair policies, sharing strategies for successful partnerships, and championing the role of a strong public health system."
Topics: National Public Health Week, NPHW, Public Health
More than six years after becoming law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains heavily litigated. Since 2010, dozens of lawsuits have been lodged against it, with four of them reaching the United States Supreme Court – a remarkable number given the law’s relatively short lifespan and the fact that the Court only grants approximately 80 of the 8,000 case petitions it receives each year. ACA litigation continued apace over the past year, with two new important decisions handed down in May of 2016.
Topics: Health, ACA, Affordable Care Act, health policy, Joel Teitelbaum, Public Health
With the recent tragic events in Orlando, people have been lining up to donate blood to help the victims of the attack. Today also marks World Blood Donor Day, a yearly campaign from the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise awareness for the importance of donating blood that saves lives in communities all over the world. This year’s theme is “Blood connects us all.”
Topics: Health, nursing, Public Health, World Blood Donor Day, world health organization
Last spring we conducted a review of our unique microbiology textbook, The Microbial Challenge: A Public Health Perspective, Third Edition by (the late) Robert Krasner and Teri Shors. The text is unique in that it covers the core microbiology concepts for an introductory microbiology course through a public health lens. This makes it perfect for students already in or considering a pre-health professions major, students interested in public health, non-majors who would benefit from a focus on how microbiology impacts everyday life, and students at schools that push an interdisciplinary focus.
Topics: microbiology, New Edition, Higher Education, Public Health, Review, review, Science
Frontiers, one of the world's largest open-access publishers in the health field, just released a new eBook entitled Undergraduate Education for Public Health in the United States. Faculty from accredited schools and programs across the nation have contributed to the 20 chapters.
Dr. Cheryl Addy, senior associate dean for academic affairs at the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health, and Dr. Daniel Gerber, associate dean of academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences, served as topic editors for the eBook, along with former SPH deans Dr. David Dyjack and Dr. Connie Evashwick.
Topics: Essential Public Health series, Health, public health education, eBooks, frontiers, Public Health
On July 4, the Washington Post featured a front page article, “Navigators’ for cancer patients: A nice perk or something more?” Perhaps the Post recognized that health navigators can provide “independence day” for patients with serious disease. The article and the comments provided numerous testimonials recognizing the “godsend” that health navigators can be for cancer patients. They also indicated that health navigators are being shown to be cost-effective at least for poorer patients.
Topics: Health, Kay Perrin, Navigating Health Insurance, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Heal, Author, Jones and Bartlett Learning, Jones & Bartlett Learning Essential Public Hea, Jones & Bartlett Learning Health Navigation, Navigating Community and Consumer Health, Navigating the U.S Healthy System, Navigators, Principles of Health Navigation, Public Health, Public Health 101, Richard Riegelman
This is the second installment of a 2-part commentary by Jones & Bartlett Learning author and health policy expert, Joel Teitelbaum, on the most recent challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Topics: Health, ACA, Affordable Care Act, health policy, Joel Teitelbaum, Public Health
This is the first installment of a 2-part commentary by Jones & Bartlett Learning author and health policy expert, Joel Teitelbaum, on the most recent challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), now a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The second installment will discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in the case (expected by the end of June, when the Court concludes its current term).
Topics: Health, ACA, Affordable Care Act, health policy, Joel Teitelbaum, Public Health
Earlier this week, we conducted an Undergraduate Public Health webinar with featured presenter, Dr. Richard K. Riegelman, MD, MPH. It explored important topics, such as:
Topics: Health, Richard K. Riegelman, Author, Navigate 2, Public Health, undergraduate public health, Webinar
