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Safety You can't remove all the safety hazards from your life, but you can reduce them. You can avoid major hazards and prepare for emergencies by taking the following steps:
Young children are especially at risk. Supervision is the best way to keep them safe. Childproofing the house can also help. |
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Exercise and Physical Fitness There are 1,440 minutes in every day. Schedule 30 of them for physical activity! Regular exercise is a critical part of staying healthy. People who are active live longer and feel better. Exercise can help you maintain a healthy weight. It can delay or prevent diabetes, some cancers and heart problems. Most adults need at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity at least five days per week. Examples include walking briskly, mowing the lawn, dancing, swimming for recreation or bicycling. Stretching and weight training can also strengthen your body and improve your fitness level. The key is to find the right exercise for you. If it is fun, you are more likely to stay motivated. You may want to walk with a friend, join a class or plan a group bike ride. If you've been inactive for awhile, use a sensible approach and start out slowly. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
Source: NIH: MedlinePlus |
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Sexual Health Sexuality is a big part of being human. Love, affection and sexual intimacy all play a role in healthy relationships. They also contribute to your sense of well-being. A number of disorders can affect the ability to have or enjoy sex in both men and women. Concerns about infertility or fear of unplanned pregnancy can also come into play.In addition, a number of diseases and disorders affect sexual health. These include sexually transmitted diseases and cancer. In men, treatment of prostate cancer can cause erectile dysfunction. In women, cervical, uterine, vaginal, vulvar or ovarian cancer may have sexual effects. |
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School Health Your child spends more time at school than anywhere else except home. Schools can have a major effect on children's health, by teaching about health and promoting healthy behaviors. The school building and environment should be a safe and healthy place for your child.Schools work to prevent risky behaviors such as alcohol and tobacco use, inactivity or bullying. They may also deal with specific health problems in students, such as asthma, obesity and infectious diseases. |
Source: NIH: MedlinePlus |
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A national health initiative that provides tools and resources to support good health as part of everyday life at school. Includes links and resources for promoting healthy eating, encouraging physical activity, and creating a healthy environment.
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Many histories have been written about medical care during the American Civil War, but the participation and contributions of African Americans as nurses, surgeons and hospital workers have often been overlooked. This site looks at the men and women who served as surgeons and nurses and how their work as medical providers challenged the prescribed notions of race and gender. Explore the exhibition online, use the educational resources in the classroom or find out if the traveling exhibition is coming to a local library near you.
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In this inaugural series based on the 2012 Shape of the Nation Report, part two depicts the missed opportunities for increasing physical activity in schools. Take a look at which states are taking important steps to create a culture of physical activity and which are not giving students ample opportunities to move!
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This is a new guidebook that unbundles the “data puzzle” and gives you important basics that will help you more effectively identify, use, and evaluate and monitor practices, services, and outcomes for children, youth, and families involved in systems of care. This guidebook is intended for human service systems that support young people and their families across a comprehensive array of services within a system of care, including child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, education, and health care.
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Provides educators--including teachers, principals, counselors, and administrators--with an overview of the field of child welfare and suggests ways that educators and child welfare workers can work together to promote better outcomes for children and families involved with child welfare, including children in foster care. Links to resources are also included.
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This is an article from the National School Boards Association highlighting school-based health centers in Colorado and Arkansas. It also has pieces on vision and staff wellness. It includes compelling return on investment data that really does make the point that prevention pays in the long run.
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" This paper explores the concept of "systemic" in the context of systems of care. Systems theory is used to understand strategies of purposeful systems change undertaken by stakeholders in established system of care communities. The paper presents a conceptual model of systems change for systems of care that is grounded in data from a national study of system of care implementation."
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A monthly newsletter from the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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This bulletin examines the connection between different types and frequencies of bullying, truancy, and student achievement, and whether students’ engagement in school mediates these factors.
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The Center for African-American Health is a community-based organization providing disease prevention and disease management programs to African Americans living in the metro Denver area offering programs on diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer, as well as a wellness program for seniors, and health literacy training.
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The Center for Early Education and Development strives to effect positive change in early education, childcare, and public policy. CEED has spent over 30 years helping children from infancy through age eight to learn and develop to the best of their abilities.
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Wellness includes many dimensions of health: physical, emotional, financial, social, occupational, intellectual, environmental, and spiritual. SAMHSA's Wellness Initiative aims to inspire individuals to improve one physical health behavior and explore their talents, skills, interests, social connections, and environment to incorporate other dimensions of wellness.
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Colorado Drug Card is a free prescription assistance program available to everyone living in Colorado. The program was launched to help the uninsured and underinsured residents of Colorado gain access to significant savings on prescription medications at their local pharmacies.No personal information is required to join the program and there are no enrollment forms, no eligibility requirements, and no restrictions of any kind. The Colorado Drug Card provides discounts on both brand and generic medication with an average savings around 30%, with some discounts as high as 75%. The card is accepted at Walgreens, Safeway, Albertsons Sav-on, Target, CVS/pharmacy, Kmart, Walmart, as well as over 56,000 participating pharmacies across the country.The Colorado Drug Card is a simple solution to the confusing maze of discount programs that have appeared in recent years. Residents of Colorado can obtain a pre-activated free Rx card, search drug pricing, and locate participating pharmacies by visiting www.ColoradoDrugCard.com. Residents can also obtain cards at health centers, hospitals, clinics, and other card distribution sites that are being set up in Denver, Northeast Jefferson, Colorado Springs, and many other locations across the state.
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This report summarizes current (as of 2011) guidelines or recommendations published by multiple agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for prevention and control of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB) for persons who use drugs illicitly.
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A Doctor-Professor answers the old question "What is the single best thing we can do for our health" in a completely new way. Dr. Mike Evans is founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael's Hospital.
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A short video describing the role of the promotora as a person that can relate to the individuals that they are serving and that serves as a point-person at a clinic or social service agency.
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| Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) Online Resource Center |
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Description:The materials on this web site are provided to you by the CDPHE's Prevention Services Division. You can access numerous products and the latest campaign support materials that focus on healthy living choices, including promoting chronic disease prevention and management. Topics:Resource Types: |
| Hand-washing: What you need to know |
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Description:"To help spread that message, APHA's Get Ready campaign is bringing together everything you need to know about hand-washing right here on the Get Ready website! " Resource Types: |
| Bullying in Schools: An Overview |
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