Health is the product of many behaviors, influences, and relationships that lie in the settings of everyday life, and yet most of our health spending goes to a health care industry narrowly focused on ...

Twelve-year old Anna has asthma. She lives in a low-income neighborhood and gets her care at a clinic affiliated with a major teaching hospital. Despite high-quality medical care, Anna’s asthma is not ...

Community health workers are public health workers. Their goal is to connect communities with their health care systems and state health departments. Community health worker (CHW) is an umbrella term ...

Community health centers are a crucial source of health care for a diverse group of patients, providing preventive services, treatment, and care management for medically underserved communities.

A parish/faith community nurse is a licensed registered nurse who ministers to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of a congregation. Parish/faith community nursing is an opportunity to serve ...

Self-care has become a buzzword, a mantra, and a commodity over the past few years. The upside is that people are learning to take responsibility for their own well-being in a variety of ways.

Since 2016, 52 percent of the Nicaraguan population has been covered by preventive and promotional health services across eleven Local Systems of Integrated Health Care and 66 municipalities. This ...

Advances in the understanding of the causes of mental illness have important implications for therapeutic uses of complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies in the treatment of depressed mood, ...