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Smart Solutions | Health
Ideal for administrators, planners and direct providers of health
services and education interested in health care trends and
practices.
Smart Solutions | School Health
Geared toward administrators, teachers and other staff in K–12
systems looking for ways to improve delivery of health education
and promote the health and safety of their students.
Getting the Word Out
Smart Solutions E-Newsletters
From Research to Practice
Research: Help Others, Live Longer
A study in the American Journal of Public
Health looked at the power of providing
help to others. The researchers conducted
interviews with participants that measured stressful events in
the previous year and whether study participants had offered
“tangible assistance” to friends or family. This included non-
monetary help such as housework, transportation, errands or
child care. Five years later, they checked state death records and
obituaries to see if they could find associations. As we’ve heard
before, stress did predict mortality risk, but only among people
who did not provide help to others. Among those who offered
help, stress did not predict mortality risk.
Practice:
This is more evidence about the power of connection and the
value of service, which can be important when assessing clients
and patients. Helping them get involved in helping others is good
preventive care.
Excerpt from
Smart Solutions | Health (October 2013)
Cool Tools
Understanding Evidence.
How do we stop
violence? A good start is to look at the
evidence. The CDC’s new Understanding
Evidence site is an online learning module
that will walk you through the steps. If you’re looking at violence
prevention or any other evidence-based interventions in your
school, the site will help you learn more about validity, research
design, the difference between promising and well-supported
evidence, and more.
Sexuality Education, State by State.
Here’s a review of state-level
policies about sexuality education, summarized with an overview
and then listed state by state. The chart notes whether a state
mandates sex education, HIV education, medically accurate
information, parental consent and more. Make sure you know
the policies in your state, then see how it compares with others.
Supporting Young People’s Self-Organized Groups.
How
do you feel about children and youth creating their own
advocacy groups? What’s the best supportive role for adults
partnering with child and youth self-organized groups? For more
information, guidance and resources, download the Article 15
Resource Kit and check out the Article 15 Project website. Their
principles are based on the United Nation’s Convention on the
Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989, and the materials have been
used by groups worldwide.
Excerpt from
Smart Solutions | School Health (October 2013)
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