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- When public health systems work together with health organizations, community institutions, and businesses short- and long-term public health challenges are much easier to manage.
- If you are at risk for low blood sugar levels because of diabetes or some other health condition, you need to keep some type of quick-sugar food with you at all times. These foods can quickly raise your blood sugar level. Eating quick-sugar food raises your blood sugar in 10 to 15 minutes. Choose fast-acting...
- Better public policies can help address the challenges. We encourage policymakers to focus on 4 key areas.
- Helping or caring for a loved one with a long-term (chronic) condition, such as COPD or heart failure, can feel like a lot to take on. Sometimes it can be hard for people to accept help. Or they may choose not to accept help. So you may have to adjust the way you think, ask, listen, and respond. These tips might help...
- We are expanding access to high-quality, affordable, clinically appropriate, convenient care through telehealth.
- Identifies a variety of techniques for relaxing your mind and body. Includes links to more information on many techniques.
- Your teen will need a complete evaluation to determine the level of substance use and the presence of other mental health or medical conditions. If you need to place your teen in a treatment program, look for one that uses evidence-based practices to treat substance use. Cost may also be an important factor to consider...
- Reducing Medicaid funding will lead to worse health outcomes, overburden emergency rooms, and cause many rural hospitals to close.
- Guides you through ways to add nutritious calories and protein to your diet.
- The health care industry is responsible for 8% to 10% of harmful emissions in the United States.
- A hearing (audiometric) test is part of an ear exam that tests how well a person is able to hear. It is done by measuring how well sound can reach the brain. The sounds we hear start as vibrations in the air around us. The vibrations make sound waves, which vibrate at a certain speed (frequency) and have a certain...
- Kaiser Permanente in Southern California partners with San Diego Wave Fútbol Club player Naomi Girma to champion women’s health and wellness through sports.
- Covers eating healthy foods when you have COPD. Offers tips to make eating easier and help you get necessary nutrition.
- A lifelong educator seeks behavioral health care to manage repetitive worries, and masters mental wellness in the process.
- Significant speech and language delays are directly related to developmental or health issues. But some people blame speech and language delays on things that aren't the cause of true delays, such as: Developmental differences. Mild and temporary speech delays can occur. And some children learn new words faster than...
- If you have a chronic condition such as high blood pressure or diabetes, our technology can provide ongoing feedback on your health status to your care team.
- When you have cancer, you may have a lot of different feelings, like anger, sadness, and fear. And your feelings can change from day to day, and even moment to moment. Most people who have cancer deal with feelings like this. Although it may be hard at first, look for things each day that help you find a new sense of...
- With the right strategies and public policies, we can strengthen our nation’s health system by focusing on this critical part of the workforce.
- Humor therapy (sometimes called therapeutic humor) uses the power of smiles and laughter to aid healing. Humor therapy helps you find ways to make yourself (or others) smile and laugh more. When you think of humor therapy, picture clowns in the children's ward of a hospital cheering up sick children. Some hospitals now...
- Efforts to expand Food for Life SNAP enrollment program were accelerated during the pandemic to help members afford healthy food.
- Cheryl is a self-employed single mom. She juggles work, four kids, and depression. "Some days, depression really pulls me down, and I'm totally exhausted mentally, physically, and emotionally," Cheryl says. "Other days, I feel great." Cheryl thinks her first bouts of depression came when she was in middle school, but it...
- A sharp increase in rates of adult caregiving is taking a mental and physical toll on family members.
- Why is fiber important? Eating a diet high in fiber is thought to help prevent constipation and its related problems. It may lower blood pressure, improve cholesterol levels, and help control blood sugar levels. And it may help you reach and stay at a healthy weight. What is the recommended daily amount of fiber? In...
- A collaborative partnership, powered by trusted nonprofit partners, brings targeted medical and dental care to underserved communities in Oregon.
- Children who are seen as being different from their peers are more likely than other children to be targets for bullying. They may have few friends and find it hard to stand up for themselves. Children who appear confident and strong are better able to discourage children from bullying them. Parents and other important...
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