Characteristics of Academic-Affiliated Health Systems

A growing opportunity: Community gardens affiliated with US hospitals and academic health centers

BACKGROUND Community gardens can reduce public health disparities through promoting physical activity and healthy eating, growing food for underserved populations, and accelerating healing from injury or disease. Despite their potential to contribute to comprehensive patient care, no prior studies have investigated the prevalence of community gardens affiliated with US healthcare institutions, ...

Academic Health Systems' Third Curve: Population Health Improvement.

Spurred by a rapidly changing health care landscape, many academic health systems are reconfiguring to move

Health systems research in the mainstream of academic medicine.

The opportunity, euphemistically speaking, presented by this Presidential Address, has been used by my many illustrious predecessors to consider problems relevant to the educational and research activities of clinical investigators. I believe I will not be departing from this tradition if I examine with you the goals we must project for academic health centers in the coming decade. These goals ...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

Prevalence and type of band name fast food at academic-affiliated hospitals.