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Health Literacy: A Social Worker’s Role as Patient Advocate

The New Social Worker

Social workers can play critical roles in promoting health literacy. The profession’s emphasis on empowerment and social justice, along with our systems approach, makes social workers ideally suited for this role.

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NYC Advances Public Health Workforce Data Literacy Through PHIG

PHIG Partners

PHIG funding also supported the growth of public health surveillance work through the expansion of the agencys in-house survey panel to 35,000 adults and new qualitative analyses to better understand mental health, the long-term impacts of COVID-19, and reproductive healthcare access and experiences in the city.

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Vitamin A and Measles: What the data show (and how to talk about it)

Your Local Epidemiologist

To support the effort, subscribe or upgrade below: Subscribe now Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD, is a resident physician and Yale Emergency Scholar, completing a combined Emergency Medicine residency and research fellowship focusing on health literacy and communication. You can subscribe to her newsletter or Substack.

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Here's what we're getting ourselves into

Your Local Epidemiologist

Sincerely, KP Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD, is a resident physician and Yale Emergency Scholar, completing a combined Emergency Medicine residency and research fellowship focusing on health literacy and communication. You can subscribe to her newsletter or Substack.

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Food, Shelter, Health Insurance – #SDOH

Health Blawg

It is often said that social determinants of health are more important than many of the things we think of as more closely associated with health, such as health care services, health literacy, engagement in one’s own health care, adherence to prescribed health care treatment and medication.

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Food, Shelter, Health Insurance – #SDOH

Health Blawg

It is often said that social determinants of health are more important than many of the things we think of as more closely associated with health, such as health care services, health literacy, engagement in one’s own health care, adherence to prescribed health care treatment and medication.

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RFK Jr. is now HHS Secretary. What comes next?

Your Local Epidemiologist

Love, YLE and KP Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD, is a resident physician and Yale Emergency Scholar, completing a combined Emergency Medicine residency and research fellowship focusing on health literacy and communication. You can subscribe to her newsletter or Substack.