Advisers knock Katrina health tests

Lay health advisers: scoping the role and intervention landscape

The use of lay health advisers has become an established approach within public health, in particular for impact on health inequalities and engaging socially excluded groups. Evidence on how differences in terms of the multiple role dimensions impact the outcomes of programs is limited. This creates ambiguity for decision makers on which roles should be implemented in different contexts for dif...

Barbershop communications on prostate cancer screening using barber health advisers.

OBJECTIVE The authors report the outcomes of a community-based, barber health adviser pilot intervention that aims to develop customized educational materials to promote knowledge and awareness of prostate cancer (CaP) and informed decision making about prostate cancer screening (PCS) among a predominantly African American clientele. METHOD First, the authors implemented a series of learner v...

Hurricane Katrina. Public health response--assessing needs.

The Council of Psychological Advisers.

Findings in behavioral science, including psychology, have influenced policies and reforms in many nations. Choice architecture can affect outcomes even if material incentives are not involved. In some contexts, default rules, simplification, and social norms have had even larger effects than significant economic incentives. Psychological research is helping to inform initiatives in savings, fi...

Public health emergencies, cancer, and the legacy of Katrina.

Web publication: 24 August 2007 Public health emergencies denote disasters that adversely impact the public health system and its protective infrastructure. Public health emergencies were first defined in the prototypical complex humanitarian emergencies that dominated the last three decades in developing countries, such as the Sudan, Somalia, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, when unprecedented direc...