Practice
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Fighting Climate Change Effects with Public Health
Kelly Broen
As the frequency and intensity of natural disasters increases, public health can provide life-saving support in the aftermath. Disaster response research might not fall neatly into a single academic discipline, but we cannot allow disaster relief to fall through the cracks. Read more
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What Are Social Determinants of Health?
Part 2 in Our 'What Is Public Health?' Video Series
Your health is influenced by a wide range of factors, and the body you were born with is only one of them. In part two of our ongoing 'What Is Public Health?" video series, learn about some of the other factors that influence our health and what public health professionals do to address them. Read more
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What Is Public Health?
A New Video Series from Michigan Public Health
The field of Public Health—though sometimes misunderstood—plays a critical role in the promotion of health, prevention of disease, and empowerment of people to manage chronic illness and disabilities. In the first of a new video series, discover how different facets of public health work together to drive lasting change. Read more
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Engaging the Communities We Inhabit
Spencer Walz
Despite advances in the field of mental health, uncertainty is still felt throughout many public mental health systems. Volunteering in the community has taught Spencer Walz that healing exists on a continuum. Read more
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The Future of Health Care Is Public Health
Quian Callender & Marianthi Hatzigeorgiou
With a focus on consumer-driven enterprises and new opportunities in technology, management, and sustainability, the future of health care begins to look a lot like public health. Read more
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Working in Everyone's Backyard: Statistics in the Community
Stephen Salerno
Statistics in the Community is a community outreach organization offering the expertise of statistics graduate students—free of charge—to nonprofit organizations. They design studies, develop better data collection instruments, and analyze data for public good. Read more
