People, get ready: The
"Good News Tour" is about to depart...Thus starts this article by The Plain Dealer columnist Margaret Bernstein on a tour that takes people from Cleveland's suburbs to the thriving businesses and urban gardens in some of the city's most impoverished neighborhoods.
Tags: boundary spanning, business, Cleveland, community, community development, economic development, Glenville, healthy environments, Hough, Margaret Bernstein, neighborhood, neighborhood revitalization, relationships, sustainability, The Plain Dealer, urban gardens, urban vineyard
Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.
Tags: community, prevention, Social determinants, well-being
Moving beyond health care to a broader view of health as a state that enables people to do valued life activities can totally reframe our health promotion efforts. The work of the boundary spanner is needed in research, education, systems development, and practice.
Tags: American Journal of Preventive Medicine, boundary spanning, Case Western Reserve University, health, health care reform, health promotion, Heide Aungst, Kurt Stange, Mary Ruhe, PHAB, primary care
Adverse early social exposures become programmed into biological systems, setting off chains of risk that can result in chronic illness in mid-life and beyond. Positive health-promoting influences can set in motion a more virutous and health-affirming cycle, leading to more optimal health trajectories.
Tags: Healthcare Quarterly, other frontiers, Social determinants, UCLA
Tracy Kidder's book, Mountains Beyond Mountains tells of an American doctor's life, mission in Haiti.
Tags: Haiti, Harvard Medical School, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Partners In Health, Paul Farmer, Tracy Kidder
A website designed to accelerate the development and adoption of innovations in health care delivery.
Tags: AHRQ, health care delivery, health care model, health care services, innovation, other frontiers, policy, research
A website portal devoted to sharing academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry (AI), a positive, strengths-based approach to changing people and organizations.
Tags: AI, Appreciative Inquiry, Case Western Reserve University, change approaches, innovation, meaningful work, other frontiers, Ron Fry, strategic planning
American Journal of Preventive Medicine article illustrating a systems thinking approach to improving population health and public health research.
Tags: American Journal of Preventive Medicine, complexity, health care systems, other frontiers, policy, population health, prevention, preventive care, public health, research, systems thinking, transdiciplinary, translational research
The website of an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people.
Tags: disasters, emergency aid, epidemic, global health, health and war, humanitarian, lack of healthcare, other frontiers, social determinants of health
Website to facilitate links and collaboration among member groups toward improving the quality of life of disadvantaged communities worldwide through education and implementation of sustainable engineering projects.
Tags: disadvantaged communities, education, engineers, global health, meaningful work, other frontiers, quality of life, sustainability, sustainable practices, water
