Tag Archives: community health

Suicide Prevention Requires Collective, Systemic Solutions

By | April 11, 2024

Suicide prevention and intervention programs and services are vital. Mental health services are essential to support individuals, families, and communities struggling with mental health, suicide, and after suicide loss. But we must also recognize that preventing suicide requires a larger collective, systemic response.  Suicide deaths are rising steadily every year, with a record high of… Read More »

SDoH in Same-Sex Couple Hotspots and Coldspots

By | June 24, 2022

Happy Pride month! In this post, I’d like to share about a research project in progress that is relevant to the LGTBQIA+ community. This post may also be interesting to those of you who care ok about health equity and the social determinants of health (SDoH). I am a member of the queer community myself.… Read More »

Social determinants of health: Language nuance matters

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines social determinants of health (SDOH) as the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the “conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age.” Currently, SDOH is a hot topic as stakeholders try new ways to improve individual and population health, achieve health equity, and reduce… Read More »

Using Technology to Improve Community Health After COVID-19

By | August 12, 2020

To be at the intersection of technology and product development in a field as ripe for disruption as healthcare couldn’t be more opportune. But how can we use technology to improve community health, especially after COVID-19? Technology and Health: A Budding Relationship On April 10th 2020 the Apple-Google partnership announced a notification tool for contact tracing to support… Read More »