RWJF President and CEO Named to Prestigious Forbes and Modern Healthcare Lists
August 27, 2012 | Story
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, named among 'the world's 100 most powerful women' and '100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.
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We Want to Know Your Thoughts about the TEDMED Great Challenges
April 10, 2012 | Story
The TEDMED conference brings together leaders from a wide array of medical and non-medical disciplines to explore the future of health and medicine.
Reflections on Fifty Years of Medical Sociology
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Journal of Health and Social Behavior has released a supplemental issue detailing 50 years of research into the social dimensions of health care. Topics include: bioethics, disparities in access to care and the cultural definition of illness.
Survey Takes the Pulse of Health Care in United States and Canada
October 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Between 2001 and 2003, researchers at the federal National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collaborated with their counterparts at the Health Statistics Division of Statistics Canada to conduct a telephone survey on a broad range of health topics in both countries using the same questionnaire.
Public Health Informatics Fellows Training Program
January 9, 2013 | Program Result Report
From 2005 to 2010 the National Library of Medicine oversaw a Public Health Informatics Fellows Training Program at four of its 18 medical informatics training sites in order to catalyze the development of a public health informatics field.
Buidling Capacity to Support and Study QI in Local Georgia Public Health Systems
December 19, 2012 | Journal Article
The study of quality improvement within Georgia’s local public health systems provides important insight into the use of regional bodies as quality improvement (QI) collaboratives and multijurisdictional entities.
Use of the County Health Rankings by Local Health Departments in Florida, 2010-2011
December 19, 2012 | Journal Article
Local health departments in Florida use the County Health Rankings to improve their community's health.
Stress and Health
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article, from a Journal of Health and Social Behavior supplement examines sociological research into the effects of stress. The author emphasizes the cumulative effects of stress stress has a more severe effect on disadvantaged groups.
Bioethics, Raw and Cooked
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In this article, the author considers the life-cycle of bioethical principles from private ethical conflicts to public spectacle to ingrained policy within health care organizations. Essentially contested total social conflicts have given rise to the language of principlism.
Sociology of Health Care Reform
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The U.S. health care system often provides services that stray from scientific standards and contribute to unnecessary costs. This article explores paths to a more efficient system.