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A core principle of human health is the idea that health is not merely the absence of disease. Rather, health is a dynamic state of physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual well-being.
Health Beyond the Blog: The Reality of Living Organically
The 2018 documentary"The Biggest Little Farm" reveals the challenges and rewards of getting as close as possible to the process of producing food, showing the efforts of one family to live and eat naturally.
Weekly Health Digest: Avoiding Gym Injuries, the Effects of Sitting, and the New Cost of FDA Approval
Weekly Health Digest from the @EmoryCSHH News team: how to avoid gym injuries, the detrimental health effects of sitting, and are pharmaceutical companies buying FDA approval via user fees?
Weekly Health Digest: Caregiving, Depression, and Global Health Efforts
New in Weekly Health Digest: the economic impact of family caregiving, distinguishing depression from burnout, and renewing efforts to fund global health.
Fostering Community Through Health Coaching
Tasked with developing a supplemental group coaching session to help current and former DPP participants maintain their health, I chose to focus my supplemental sessions on “slip-ups”, which was a term discussed during the first part of the DPP core curriculum.
Weekly Health Digest: Heart Disease, Hail Storms, and COVID’s Effect on Native Americans
New in Weekly Health Digest: Streamlining heart disease medication regimens, disproportionate effects of Covid on indigenous communities' life expectancy, and as the size of hailstones grows, scientists asks citizens for help.
Health Education is Health Empowerment: Reflections from a Two-Time DPP Health Coach
When I practiced my sessions with my peers, the biggest barrier to physical activity was time, so I was somewhat blindsided when a participant last year informed me they were retired and had all the time in the world.
Making a Case for Early Childhood Health Education
The way health education is approached when we are younger sets the stage for how we execute healthy habits later in life, which is why it’s so important to expose children to various health topics in school.
Navigating the Transition from College to Career
While facilitating health lessons for King Middle students I had to learn to adapt to changes in the timetable or variation in participation levels while still getting through all the content in the allotted time. This taught me to think on my feet and remain calm when things didn’t go exactly according to plan.
Improving Health Education Through Relationships
Children as young as two years old can benefit from the basics of health knowledge, but through my community teaching experience at King Middle School, I see clearly now that middle childhood is the developmental period where children may benefit the most from health education as this is the stage of life where we start to gain more independence and responsibility.