Lessons on Leadership
Though the focus on this blog series tends to be on social determinants of health (SDOH) curricula or related efforts in education, I’d like to […]
Though the focus on this blog series tends to be on social determinants of health (SDOH) curricula or related efforts in education, I’d like to […]
Most medical professionals can readily recite the four core principles of bioethics: autonomy or respect for persons, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. Yet the field of […]
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman because it often results in physical death.” Dr. Martin […]
A behind-the-scenes look at how we developed and implemented “Introduction to Social Determinants of Health in the Hispanic Community” – an innovative curricular approach to […]
The term “burnout” was popularized by the psychologist, Herbert Freudenberger, in the 1970’s to capture a phenomenon he personally experienced while putting in long hours […]
More than a century ago Dr. Rudolph Virchow wrote, “The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large […]
Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on lifelong health and opportunity. As such, early experiences are an important public health issue […]
If you have seen the show “Avenue Q”, the hilariously funny spoof of Sesame Street, you may remember the song, “Everyone’s a little bit racist”. […]
Whatever the power—even the necessity—of the disciplines. . . in the end, questions never stop at the boundaries of a discipline. Efforts to develop decisive […]
The concept that social factors impact health can be found in the epidemiologist Rudolf Virchow’s writings from the 19th century, but I didn’t know any […]