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April 17, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Today, the Psychological Bulletin published research by Julia K. Boehm and Laura Kubzansky from the Harvard School of Public Health suggesting that positive psychological well-being – such as life purpose, positive emotion, life satisfaction, happin ...
April 17, 2012 | Journal Article
Recommended Reading Positive Health A Prospective Study of Positive Psychological Well-Being and Coronary Heart Disease Heart Health When Life is Satisfying Purpose in Life and Reduced Risk of Myocardial Infarction Among Older U.S. Adults With Coro ...
April 16, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A NewPublicHealth Q&A with Jack B. Stein The National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy is about to celebrate its first anniversary. The Strategy offers a comprehensive plan aimed at increasing the number of Americans who are healthy at every ...
March 21, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Life Purpose May Help Reduce Heart Attack Risk
February 27, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation looks at the Prevention and Public Health Fund created under the Affordable Care Act of 2010. The fund was originally authorized to spend $15 billion over its first ten ye ...
February 23, 2012 | Journal Article
Can a sense of purpose reduce your risk of heart attack? This study shows that greater baseline purpose in life was associated with lower odds of myocardial infarction.
February 1, 2012 | Commentary
Even if optimism proves not to be a strong cause of good health, freedom from disease and longevity are not the only goals of life. Quality of life matters in addition to quantity of life, and it is clear from research that optimism enhances one's quality of life across the lifespan with little cost and minimal side effects.
November 16, 2011 | New Public Health Post
A new policy brief from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation looks at the return on investment for prevention, based on four groundbreaking studies released in recent years. The report notes that, "investments in proven, community-based prevention pro ...
November 7, 2011 | New Public Health Post
“It’s not easy but it’s worth it,” is the very important message from the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a partnership between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. The Partnership is prom ...
November 2, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Dr. Bauer: Policy is key, I think, to the success of chronic disease prevention and health promotion. Policy can be a legislatively enacted law, can be a regulation, or can be something that’s voluntarily adopted by a jurisdiction, by an employer, b ...