Rural Healthy People 2010—Evolving Interactive Practice

Healthy buildings, healthy people

When researcher Melkam Kebede started her five-year fellowship at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia, she was struck by the abundance of natural light and design features that encouraged people to move and mingle. “I’ve worked in many places before, but never seen laboratories with so much natural light,” says Kebede, whose research is on the links between type 2 ...

Education for rural practice in rural practice.

Despite the substantial differences between developing and developed countries, access is the major rural health issue. Studies in many countries have shown that the three factors most strongly associated with entering rural practice are: (1) a rural upbringing; (2) positive clinical and educational experiences in rural settings as part of undergraduate medical education; (3) targeted training ...

Paying People to Be Healthy

User Financial Incentives (UFIs) have emerged as a powerful tool for health promotion. Strong evidence suggests that large enough incentives paid to individuals, conditional on behaviour they can control, encourages more of the desired behaviour. However, such interventions can have unintended consequences for non-targeted behaviours. Implementation difficulties that result in individuals not u...

HealtHy people depend on HealtHy

Healthy people 2010: diabetes.

853 B eginning in 1979, the then Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issued a document titled " Healthy People: The Surgeon General' s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention " (1). With the release in 1990 of Healthy People (HP) 2000, the process of establishing health directions for the nation, as well as the increased variety of topics addressed, both signified expanded co...