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A Sustained Public-Health Approach Can Help Stem the Tide of Gun Deaths
Dean John Finnegan wrote in a recent MinnPost editorial that the time is ripe for a public-health-based social and cultural movement to stem the tide of gun deaths.
Linking Structural Racism and Health
Rachel Hardeman works to bring new awareness to a deeply rooted problem.
School of Public Health students investigate foodborne outbreaks through Team D, a group in the Minnesota Department of Health’s Foodborne Diseases Unit.
Despite public health efforts, smoking continues to be the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S.
Research News
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Understanding Patient Drug Preferences for Treating Venous Thromboembolism
by Charlie Plain on April 17, 2018 at 7:16 pm
Research by Associate Professor Pamela Lutsey found that patients viewed the reversibility of an anticoagulant and the ability to monitor its levels as important. […]
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Institutional Racism Mentioned in Few Public Health Journal Articles
by Charlie Plain on April 10, 2018 at 7:58 pm
Assistant Professor Rachel Hardeman found that the top 50 public health journals published only 25 articles discussing institutional racism between 2002 and 2015. […]
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Efforts to Transform Health Care Led to Better Asthma Outcomes
by Charlie Plain on April 3, 2018 at 6:02 pm
A study by Assistant Professor Nathan Shippee shows that Health Care Homes had better asthma outcomes than other primary care clinics. […]
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NIH Gives $6.5M to Neumark-Sztainer to Study Eating and Weight Issues in Young People
by Martha Coventry on April 3, 2018 at 5:37 pm
The NIH awarded Professor Dianne Neumark-Sztainer a coveted Outstanding Investigator Award to study eating and weight-related problems in adolescents and young adults from low-income and ethnic/racial minority groups in the United States. […]
In the News
Hyun Kim: Why Harvey will be a mental health disaster, too (Fortune)
Katy Kozhimannil: Top 5 questions to ask about your birth hospital (Minnesota Public Radio)
Michael Osterholm: Is floodwater bad for your health? (Forbes)
Bryan Dowd: Talk about privilege is best focused on policy (Star Tribune)
Public Health Radio
Toben Nelson: Sunday Liquor Sales and Minnesotans’ Health
Rachel Hardeman: The Role of Race in Health
Wendy Hellerstedt: Tips for Women’s Health
Jonathan Oliver: Protecting Yourself from Lyme Disease
Michael Osterholm: Vaccines Help Prevent the Spread of Disease
DeAnn Lazovich: Avoiding Skin Cancer
