Our Community

Articulating our values to clarify our mission: Inviting community participation

E d i t o r i a l " The mission of The Journal of General Physiology (JGP) is to publish articles that elucidate important biological, chemical , or physical mechanisms of broad physiological significance. The major emphasis is on physiological problems at the cellular and molecular level. " In the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, the title character, a sports management agent, wrote a mission statemen...

Talk of the City: Our Tweets, Our Community Happiness

The literature of urban sociology and that of psychology have separately established two relationships: the first has linked characteristics of a community to its residents’ well-being, the second has linked well-being of individuals to their use of words. No one has hitherto explored the potential transitive relationship that between characteristics of a community and its residents’ use of wor...

Presbycusis: A Critical Issue in Our Community

Hearing is an important sensation to the elderly as it promotes their quality of life and maintains their safety and wellness. For example, healthy hearing lets the elderly catch alarm sounds, stay alert to danger whilst asleep, listen in the dark, detect sounds from behind, communicate efficiently with other people, and maintain links to the world via telephone and radio, especially after reti...

Preserving our tradition of community service.

“Our commonality is our past:” a qualitative analysis of re-entry community health workers’ meaningful experiences

BACKGROUND Re-entry community health workers (CHWs) are individuals who connect diverse community residents at risk for chronic health issues such as Hepatitis C virus and cardiovascular disease with post-prison healthcare and re-entry services. While the utilization of CHWs has been documented in other marginalized populations, there is little knowledge surrounding the work of re-entry CHWs wi...