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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting public health activities in the United States. CDC’s focus is not only on scientific excellence but also on the essential spirit that is CDC: to protect the health of all people. Composed of the Office of the Director, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and six coordinating centers, CDC employs ...
An educational opportunity is available to individual’s to improve the public’s health by increasing the number of public health researchers and practitioners who have expertise in the relationship between physical activity and health in populations. The Physical Activity and Public Health Course (PAPH), sponsored by the University of South Carolina Prevention Research Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is offering training for researchers and public health ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking a research fellow to participate in conducting systematic reviews related to communitywide health promotion and disease prevention interventions. Candidates should have obtained, within the last 5 years, a doctoral or master’s degree in public health, psychology, or a related discipline. Please reference project CDC-NCHM-2009-0013.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics, the number of people who went without needed prescription drugs because of costs nearly doubled to 11 percent in 2009, up from 6 percent in 1997. This information was released in the CDC’s annual report on the nation’s health, which is a round-up of health data from state and federal health agencies. For more highlighted information from this report, read the entire article at http...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending hospitals test living donors for the virus that causes AIDS no more than seven days before their organs are removed and transplanted. This recommendation follows the first documented U.S. case of HIV transmission from a live organ donor in more than two decades. For more information about this recommendation, read the entire article at http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/03/18/cdc-urges-new-hiv-testing-donors/.
To discuss and identify ways to maximize the impact of the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (PAG) across the Aging Network. Organizations and groups should attempt to relay messages about physical activity to older adults by using existing health networks to share information and advice about physical activity. All Aging Network organizations with a mission to promote active aging should be encouraged to become active participants in the National Physical Activity Plan.
It is essential to identify people suffering from chronic degenerative diseases early on and to register them at health centers (HCs) to successfully control risk factors for these diseases. The objective of the Floripativa program is to implement rehabilitation, prevention, and health promotion at the HCs in Florianopolis, SC, Brazil. To unify the programs already in existence, a single program was created (Floripativa), designed to act through rehabilitation, prevention and promotion in ...
