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June 5, 2013 | New Public Health Post
This year’s arch of Dimes National Communications Advisory Council luncheon focuses on treating mental health conditions in mothers during and after pregnancy.
March 11, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Bonnie Zima, an alumna of the RWJF Clinical Scholars program, published a study this month that appeared in a special supplement of Pediatrics on child health quality.
July 30, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
In the next six months, I met 39 other gunshot victims whose experiences closely mirrored Ervin’s. In different ways, each of these victims explained how getting shot was not only physically and psychologically trying, it was also a drain on their ...
December 27, 2011 | New Public Health Post
A recent Reuters in-depth report finds that slashes to state mental health budgets as well as job and home losses from the economic downturn of the last few years have led to an increase in people seeking care for mental illness at emergency rooms. ...
November 2, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The recent first-ever Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on mental health issues in America, found that half of all Americans have a mental health issue at some point in their lives. Pamela Hyde, JD, Administrator of the Substance Abu ...
June 6, 2013 | New Public Health Post
A new American Public Health Association (APHA) Press book, “Veteran Suicide: A Public Health Imperative,” addresses the critical and growing issue of suicide among military veterans.
May 21, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Pioneer Program Officer Lori Melichar discusses using social network insights to solve perplexing health and health care problems.
May 20, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Today's headlines include: - CDC Issues First Comprehensive Report on Children’s Mental Health - New PSAs Help Parents Talk to Younger Kids about the Dangers of Underage Drinking - Advocacy Groups Petition FDA to Ban Menthol Flavored Cigarettes
April 25, 2013 | New Public Health Post
NPR reported that business owners near the Boston Marathon blast site are beginning to return. To help make sure businesses can reopen safely, public health inspectors played a role. Longer term, public health also plays a mental health support role.
April 24, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jason Houle, recently published a study that finds association between depressive symptoms and mortality is due to later health problems, not prior physical health conditions.