Our healthier nation

Making the Environment Healthier for Our Kids

Walking and talking our way to healthier living.

It’s not easy getting up 30 minutes earlier to exercise first thing in the morning, but if I don’t do it then, I usually won’t get to it. Like most new habits, it took me awhile to get into the routine of walking, but now I do it almost daily and feel good about it for the rest of the day. More and more research is pointing to the longterm benefits of physical activity on wellbeing. Walking is ...

The Practical Value of Anthropology to Our Nation.

MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-onHudson, N. Y. THE PRACTICAL VALUE OF ANTHROPOLOGY TO OUR NATIONI TH1E last few years have taught American scienltists the lesson of service to our nation in time of crisis. It had seemed to be a condition of our American civilization that the vast bulk of our people spent their...

Maintaining, restoring, and improving the health of our nation.

We need to start a conversation about Health. A conversation with our patients, our peers in the health care professions, and our communities across this nation. In the view of US Army Surgeon General LTG Patricia D. Horoho, our American health care system today, including military medicine, is focused on disease rather than Health. That's understandable--but it has to change.

Behavioral medicine and the health of our nation: accelerating our impact.

PURPOSE A key goal of this paper is to illustrate the impact of behavioral medicine on the factors that influence population health. A second goal is to consider the delicate balance between relevance and excellence as we bring our science to bear on important social and public health problems. If we are to increase the translation of our evidence and accelerate our impact, we must increase our...