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February 6, 2020

Wellness, Health & Prevention: Mobile Mindfulness Meditation Intervention Among Women

Traditional mindfulness-based stress reduction programs are resource intensive for providers and time- and cost-intensive for participants, but the use of mobile technologies may be particularly convenient and cost-effective for populations that are busy, less affluent, or geographically distant from skilled providers. Women in southern Louisiana live in a vulnerable, disaster-prone region and are highly stressed, making a mobile program particularly suited to this population.

January 21, 2020

Ethical Community Engagement: Lessons Learned - Public Health

The American College of Healthcare Executives Code of Ethics devotes a full section to the “The Healthcare Executive’s Responsibilities to Community and Society.”  The first of these duties, outlined in Section V of the code, is mandate to “work to identify and meet the healthcare needs of the community.” Dr. Richard A. Culbertson from LSUHSC […]

January 13, 2020

AJPH: Ending the HIV epidemic, population health and telemedicine services - Public Health

The mission of AJPH is to advance public health research, policy, practice and education. This month’s issue has a collection of articles on ending the HIV epidemic, population health and telemedicine services .APHA members get full access to AJPH, the official journal of the American Public Health Association. Here are a few of the many […]

January 13, 2020

Financial Distress and Bankruptcy Prediction in Acute Care Hospitals - Public Health

Dr. Dean Smith, LSUHSC School of Public Health, Professor in Health Policy & Systems Management and SPH Dean, has jointly published a new research study with the purpose of examining and comparing the accuracy of three financial distress prediction models and their ability to predict bankruptcy for US acute care hospitals. The article titled, “Financial […]