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DC Health Champions Workforce Well-Being with Trauma-Informed Leadership

PHIG Partners

In 2024, DC Healths PHIG-supported workforce team prioritized well-being and strong organizational culture by introducing servant leadership principles to define culture and provide training, application, and recognition of these values to improve engagement and retention at the agency.

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How do we integrate training in Generalism in medical education?

Better Health For All

COVID-19 has further emphasised the significance of public health as a speciality and rekindled wider interest in health inequalities [1]. Generalism is a form of clinical practice that is shaped around the priority health needs of the person rather than the practitioners’ own field of expertise. J Med Educ Res [Internet].

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8 Ways Machine Learning Can be Used to Make Cities Smarter

Smart Data Collective

Artificial intelligence can help through using monitors and sensors to assess real time occupancy in parking garages – if there happens to be no vacancy, then visitors will be alerted so they won’t have to waste time circling the lot. Public Safety. References. [1] Optimization of Electric Vehicle Charging. Huntingford, E.

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Most street-homeless housing applicants never get a shot, inside stats show

HEALTHBEAT

As state and local agencies grapple with the housing and mental health needs of unsheltered New Yorkers, internal city numbers obtained by THE CITY show long odds for getting a spot in apartments designed to support people who need psychiatric or substance use treatment. This story was originally published by THE CITY.

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Occupational Infectious Diseases

Gideon

In recognition of World Health Day 2021 , which falls on April 7, the WHO points out that “some people are able to live healthier lives and have better access to health services than others – entirely due to the conditions in which they are born, grow, live, work, and age.” of cases, respectively (7).

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Nursing aides plagued by PTSD after ‘nightmare’ Covid conditions, with little help

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. It was the latest in a drumbeat of health issues that she traces to the first months of 2020, when dozens of veterans died at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, in one of the country’s deadliest Covid-19 outbreaks at a long-term nursing facility.

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Fake Meat Dangers with Dr. Joseph Mercola

Mercola

To help raise awareness about this latest assault on human health, I recently spoke with host Polly Tommey on "Tea Time," a program by Children's Health Defense, about the dangers of fake meat products. In 2011, we started to educate the public about their dangers, as they posed a major threat to public health and the environment.