Promoting Health by Addressing Basic Needs

Addressing Younger Workers’ Needs: The Promoting U through Safety and Health (PUSH) Trial Outcomes

Most younger workers, less than 25 years old, receive no training in worker safety. We report the feasibility and outcomes of a randomized controlled trial of an electronically delivered safety and health curriculum for younger workers entitled, PUSH (Promoting U through Safety and Health). All younger workers (14-24 years old) hired for summer work at a large parks and recreation organization ...

Addressing mental health needs of Balkan refugees.

Basic oral health needs: A professional priority?

The inadequacy of access to oral health care is a complex problem facing society. Many in society who need care are unable to obtain it or do not seek it for a variety of reasons. Most commonly, these are the unfunded, who simply have inadequate resources; the "unaccepted," who may not have dental coverage or have types of coverage that are not accepted by private practitioners; the inaccessibl...

Basic oral health needs: A public priority.

Is there a way to support a special ethical status for unmet oral health needs within our pluralistic, liberty-loving American society? Some people in American society, perhaps many people, believe that some kinds of human needs have special ethical importance. But very few people outside the oral health professions have ever considered that unmet oral health needs might belong to this category...

Accountable Health Communities--Addressing Social Needs through Medicare and Medicaid.

F decades, experts have described a profound imbalance between public funding of acute medical care and investments in upstream social and environmental determinants of health.1 By some estimates, more than 95% of the trillion dollars spent on health care in the United States each year funds direct medical services, even though 60% of preventable deaths are rooted in modifiable behaviors and ex...