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Issue   Building Healthier Communities

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  1. National

    From Struggling Against Hunger to Fighting It: One Doctor’s Story

    Mar 20, 2018

    This is a guest blog by Robin Dickinson, M.D. Dr. Dickinson is a family physician at Community Supported Family Medicine, a safety-net clinic in Englewood, Colo. Having experienced poverty as a child, one of my goals in becoming a physician was to help other families in more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

  2. County Health and Diversity Measures: Are You Moving the Needle?

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raopuzxk0Lk The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s annual County Health Rankings & Roadmaps provide a revealing snapshot of how health is influenced by where we live, learn, work and play.  They provide a starting point for change in more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Increasing Diversity in Nursing

  3. National

    Nurse Helped Coax the Big Easy to Go Smoke-Free

    Feb 28, 2018

    When New Orleans’ Mayor Mitch Landrieu expressed interest in exploring a citywide smoking ban, Charlotte Parent, RN, MHCM, then the city’s director of health, was on board. While working as an obstetric nurse, Parent had developed an acute awareness of the effects of more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: Louisiana National

  4. National

    Duchess of Cambridge to Kick Off Launch of Global Nursing Campaign

    Feb 23, 2018

    Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, will participate on Feb. 27 in a launch event of  Nursing Now, a new global campaign to strengthen the nursing profession. more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National

  5. National

    Get Involved in Community, Urges Nurse Leader

    Feb 13, 2018

    This is the 11th in a series of profiles of Campaign leaders talking about their connections to the nursing or health care profession and their interests in healthier communities. more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National Oregon

  6. How Nurses Can Help Create Age-Friendly Communities

    Feb 12, 2018

    ”The AARP Network of age-friendly communities is an affiliate of the world health organization’s global network of age-friendly cities and communities, an international effort launched in 2006 to help cities prepare for their own and the world’s growing population of older more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Location: Michigan

  7. National

    Seeding a Culture of Health by Spreading Innovative Ideas

    Feb 09, 2018

    Now that we’re going full throttle on the goals and leading-edge projects of 2018, I’m excited to share with you a few details concerning some important work that accelerated in 2017 and, as a result, promises to continue to bear fruit this year. AARP Public Policy more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National

  8. National

    From One Coast to Another, Nurse Brings Health to Neighborhoods In Need

    Feb 06, 2018

    When asked where she grew up, Gloria McNeal responds with a mere ZIP code. But don’t expect to hear 90210, or any other such posh digits. “One-nine-one-two-three,” she says, “and that is a ZIP code you didn’t want to come from.” It may not have been her (or more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: California National Pennsylvania

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