Tag Archives: Health Behavior

Upcoming 988 Medical Care Symposium & Utilization of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ Service

By | July 4, 2024
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Figure 1. Awareness of the 988 Hotline

Before we introduce this week’s post about important disparities in 988 utilization, by Lindsey Dawson and Heather Saunders and originally published in KFF Health News, we wanted to highlight an upcoming Symposium on Responding to Behavioral Health Emergencies being held by the Medical Care section of the American Public Health Association (among others). The need… Read More »

Who responds to health behavior change interventions and why?

By | August 1, 2018
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The New York Times recently posted an article about the return on investment around public health interventions and how American life expectancy at birth increased by 30 years in the time from 1900 to 1999.  The article went on to stress that these additional years of life can largely be attributed to advances in public… Read More »