Poor literacy skills and diabetes have two things in common: They are reaching epidemic levels in the U.S. and they affect minority populations disproportionately. Put diabetes and low literacy together and the result is a recipe for disaster. Patients who […]
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The most recent Hawaii Diabetes Report, released earlier this year by the Hawaii State Department of Health’s Diabetes Prevention and Control Program, reveals that this serious disease is a major public health problem in the Aloha State–and it is hitting
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This past January, as part of her acceptance speech after receiving a special HHS Secretary’s Award for her exceptional accomplishments in the field of minority health, Mary Starke Harper, PhD, DSc, RN, FAAN, remarked that she left home against the
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Could a simple little blood test make a big important difference in helping to reduce the disproportionately high risk of high blood pressure in African Americans? The findings of a recent study published online in the journal Hypertension suggest that
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For the past three years, the U.S. Surgeon General’s Family History Initiative public health campaign has been encouraging all Americans to learn about their family health histories and become aware of diseases that may run in their family. The project
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Trying to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in diabetes morbidity and mortality is already no small task. But closing the diabetes gap could become twice as challenging if a disturbing new phenomenon known as double diabetes continues to increase. According
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 What an exciting opportunity to be invited to teach in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at St. George’s University in Grenada, West Indies. St. George’s University brings professors and lecturers from other nations and cultures to the
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When America’s huge baby boomer population hits retirement age a few years from now, their health care requirements will skyrocket, creating an unprecedented need for highly skilled care providers, including nurses. What’s more, with an average age of 46.8 years
Life is so fast-paced today with people trying to do so much that many people find themselves stressed to the max. By maintaining a state of constant busyness, people run themselves into exhaustion. And, at the end of the day,
When Bill Stevens RT(R) thought about a career in health care, he craved something that offered challenges in a fast-paced environment. “I realized I liked the hospital setting but not being saddled with one patient all day,” he notes. “I
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