Increasing Public Awareness

Osteopathic medicine and community health fairs: increasing public awareness while improving public health.

For members of the public, community health fairs are an opportunity to gather information and receive screening for a variety of common medical conditions. For the osteopathic medical community, they can be an opportunity to increase public awareness about osteopathic medicine. The authors conducted a survey at nine community-based health fairs in the Lansing, Mich, metropolitan area to determ...

Advancing public awareness

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Public Awareness of Colorectal Cancer Screening: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Interventions for Increasing Screening Uptake

Colorectal cancer ranks as one of the most incidental and death malignancies worldwide. Colorectal cancer screening has proven its benefit in terms of incidence and mortality reduction in randomized controlled trials. In fact, it has been recommended by medical organizations either in average-risk or family-risk populations. Success of a screening campaign highly depends on how compliant the ta...

Public somnambulism: a general lack of awareness of the consequences of increasing medical negligence litigation.

Attend any meeting of obstetricians, spinal surgeons, neurosurgeons or neonatologists, and talk soon turns to the burgeoning costs of cover for negligence claims. Local medical academic and trade journals are increasingly addressing the issue: the whys, the consequences, and possible solutions. Although there are regular newspaper headlines and articles on litigation costs, seldom if ever does ...

Increasing public awareness of Ebola virus disease symptoms using a pictogram-based poster.