All of Us Research Program Privacy Safeguards
The NIH All of Us Research Program is an historic effort to gather data from one million or more people living in the United States to accelerate research and improve health. All of Us will serve as a national resource to provide data for thousands of studies covering a variety of health conditions. Participants will also be able to learn more about their own health. But what about privacy? All of Us follows strict security protocols and processes to protect participant information. Read more about Privacy Safeguards and provide feedback. (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - May 10, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: All of Us Source Type: blogs
Rural Data Visualizations
The Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub) provides a Rural Data Visualization resource with access to a range of tools to explore issues that impact rural health. The visualizations are based on data from federal and other publicly available data sources, and illustrate that data in a variety of formats to show how rural areas compare. Data is also available for download. See interactive maps, a chart gallery, and maps by health topic at the RHIhub.
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Source: BHIC - May 10, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Rural Source Type: blogs
Prevention Week: May 13-19, 2018
National Prevention Week in May is the perfect time to remind your community about substance abuse prevention and mental health before summer begins. By hosting an event, you can help raise awareness about the importance of positive mental health and substance use prevention. See the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) toolkit for factsheets, templates, tools and ideas.
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Source: BHIC - May 10, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Substance Addiction and Misuse Source Type: blogs
Medical Alert Systems
Medical alert systems—where the press of a wearable call button puts you in touch with a dispatcher who can summon emergency help or contact a friend or family member—may offer some reassurance. If you’re considering such a system, which should you choose? The wide variety of features, service options, and fees can make it challenging to figure out what’s best for you. You might wonder whether you can simply rely on the technology you already have, such as a smartphone. Probably not, experts say. That’s because it’s unlikely that you have your smartphone with you all the time. And if you’re considering...
Source: BHIC - May 8, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Carolyn Martin Tags: Chronic Disease Senior medical alert systems Technology Source Type: blogs
2018 Car Seat Guide for Families
One of the most important jobs you have as a parent is keeping your child safe when riding in a vehicle. Each year, thousands of young children are killed or injured in car crashes. Proper use of car safety seats helps keep children safe. But with so many different seats on the market, many parents find this overwhelming. If you are expectant parents, give yourselves enough time to learn how to properly install the car safety seat in your car before your baby is born to ensure a safe ride home from the hospital.
The type of seat your child needs depends on several things, including your child’s age, size, and develop...
Source: BHIC - May 8, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Carolyn Martin Tags: Children and Teens Public Health buying guide Source Type: blogs
Consumers ’ Checkbook
Choosing the best surgeon can reduce your chances of death, complications, or other bad outcomes. Prospective surgery patients will find the Consumers’ Checkbook website a helpful guide when shopping for a surgeon. The Surgeon Rating is based on analyses of more than five million surgeries done in hospital by more than 50,000 surgeons, shows you which surgeons’ patients Checkbook found had the lowest (or highest) rates of deaths, prolonged lengths of stay (indicating likely complications), or need to be readmitted to hospital, after our risk-adjustments for patient characteristics. Choosing a good surgeon wi...
Source: BHIC - May 8, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Carolyn Martin Tags: Health Information Literacy Websites consumer health informed medical decisions patient engagement ratings Source Type: blogs
Gardening Interventions from the Community Guide
With spring upon us, consider reviewing the section within the Community Guide about Gardening Interventions to Increase Vegetable Consumption Among Children. For those unfamiliar with the Community Guide, this is a place to search for evidence-based findings from the Community Preventive Services Task force. This information can be helpful when designing community interventions because it discusses interventions that have worked for others and how well they worked, the cost of the approach, and any known gaps in the evidence. (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - April 23, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Erin Seger Tags: Public Health Source Type: blogs
DASH Health Care Data 101 Guide
Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH) is an initiative from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The focus of DASH is to support community collaborations to address local issues affecting community health, enhance communities’ abilities to plan and implement activities through sharing data and information, and to identify methods to improve data sharing. The DASH Health Care Data 101 guide provides an overview of commonly used terms when discussing healthcare data. This is a helpful resource for non-health sector professionals who want to know more about health care data as it relates to their community. (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - April 23, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Erin Seger Tags: General Public Health Source Type: blogs
Mental Health Funding Opportunity
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications for Mental Health Awareness Training grants. Activities within this program include those that will train others to respond appropriately to those with mental disorders, such as: training individuals to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental disorders; establishing links with school and/or community-based mental health agencies to refer those with the signs and symptoms of mental illness; training emergency services personnel, fire department personnel, law enforcement and others to identify those with mental illness and us...
Source: BHIC - April 23, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Erin Seger Tags: Mental Health Scholarships and Grants Source Type: blogs
Social Justice Behind and Beyond the Bars: Criminal Justice, Health, and Academic Medicine
The Association of American Medical Colleges’ Health Equity Research and Policy team released the Social Justice Behind and Beyond the Bars: Criminal Justice Health and Academic Medicine toolkit and video series to highlight the unique needs and inequities faced by the currently and formerly incarcerated and their families, and what Academic Medicine – across its research, education, clinical and diversity and inclusion missions – is and could be doing to improve the health and well-being for this community. The toolkit features resources, discussion questions, and 5 videos which explore how being currently in...
Source: BHIC - April 20, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Minority Health Concerns Source Type: blogs
All of Us Research Program Launched
The National Institutes of Health has launched the All of Us Research Program, a historic effort to gather data from one million or more people living in the United States to accelerate research and improve health. By taking into account individual differences in lifestyle, environment, and biology, researchers will uncover paths toward delivering precision medicine. Learn more. (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - April 20, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: All of Us Source Type: blogs
Get Activity Ideas for National DNA Day
National DNA Day is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2018. On April 25th, students, teachers and the public can learn more about how advances in genetics and genomics have changed people’s lives and what the future holds. Get ideas for activities to raise awareness and download a starter kit from the National Human Genome Research Institute. (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - April 20, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Health Information Literacy Source Type: blogs
National Transgender HIV Testing Day
is observed each year on April 18. This day is an opportunity to focus on HIV testing, prevention, and treatment among transgender people. It encourages local testing events and testing campaigns to increase HIV status awareness in transgender populations. For further information and resources, please visit HIV.gov, the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), and the UCSF Center for Excellence in Transgender Health. To find local testing sites, please visit the HIV.gov Locator. (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - April 13, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: HIV/AIDS Source Type: blogs
Forest Safety in English and Spanish
The largely immigrant, Latino workforce in the forestry industry is essential to US forest management, yet vulnerable because of documentation status, lack of English proficiency, low literacy, occupational immobility, working in remote locations under contracted employment, and deficiencies in skills training. These materials were developed under an academic-community partnership between the University of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Agriculture Safety & Health Center, University of California Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program, and the Northwest Forest Worker Center and include forest worker safety ta...
Source: BHIC - April 13, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Minority Health Concerns Multilingual Source Type: blogs
Prescription Drug Take Back Day – April 28
Removing unwanted or expired medications from the medicine cabinet is an easy and concrete step that everyone can take to make a difference in the opioid epidemic. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) created a new partnership toolbox of materials for promoting National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 28, 2018. The new toolbox includes:
Posters
Pamphlets
Digital billboards
Print billboards
Bus ads
Site location banners
Web button
Promoting the DEA’s Take Back Day provides an opportunity for people from across the country to clean out their medicine cabinets and to safely and anonymously turn in prescription drugs. (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - April 13, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Substance Addiction and Misuse Source Type: blogs
