Posts Tagged ‘health promotion’

Overdiagnosis as a Flaw of Health Care

February 29th, 2012

Many health promotion activities like screening tests don’t actually promote health, but instead promote disease. This New York Times article, Overdiagnosis as a Flaw of Health Care, states that health practitioners bring healthy patients in for disease screening and prevention … Continue reading

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Refocusing Knowledge Generation, Application, and Education: Raising Our Gaze to Promote Health Across Boundaries

October 13th, 2011

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 … Continue reading

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The ecology of team science: understanding contextual influences on transdisciplinary collaboration.

December 2nd, 2010

This article from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine explores four areas of research regarding transdisciplinary collaboration. Continue reading

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