A series of one-day trainings will be offered on opioid use disorders and treatment that will be open to family drug treatment court and family court teams, guardian ad litem staff, child welfare and foster care staff from departments of social services, other health and domestic violence team members, and substance abuse treatment staff.
Study estimates that 7 out of 10 adults in assisted living communities have some form of cognitive impairment
A new research study published in this month’s issue of Health Affairs finds that assisted living communities are a primary provider of residential care for older adults with dementia and that an estimated 7 out of 10 adults living in these settings have some form of cognitive impairment. Sheryl Zimmerman, Philip Sloane, and David Reed… Read more »
Sheps NRSA fellow publishes new cancer research
Angela Stover, a current NRSA predoctoral fellow with the Sheps Center has been featured by the School of Public Health about her recent publication. Read the article HERE.
Sheps Center Child Health Program has a New Director & a New Website
Dr Betsy Sleath, distinguished Professor at the UNC School of Pharmacy and long-time Sheps Center investigator, has recently agreed to take over as Program Director for the Child Health Services Program. Betsy has worked on children’s health issues for many years, examining efficacy and adherence issues of medication use in this vulnerable population, with additional… Read more »
NCNC 2014 Annual Conference May 17, 2014
NCNC’s Conference announcement “Engaging Communities, Patients, and Practices: Implementing Best Practices in Primary Care” May 17, 2014
Assisted Living Comparison Experts website featured as UNC’s Spotlight Story
The Assisted Living Comparison Experts website www.alce.unc.edu is featured as UNC’s Spotlight Story. Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-term Care co-directors Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD and Philip Sloane, MD, MPH were interviewed about their website, which provides information on all licensed adult and family care settings in North Carolina in a user-friendly format, and is designed… Read more »
New NCIOM Task Force on Essentials for Childhood
The goal of the NCIOM Task Force on Essentials for Childhood is to develop an integrated, comprehensive 5-year strategic plan to coordinate and prioritize the services, programs and/or policies of a number of state agencies that will build on New Directions for NC. Thus, the Task Force will increase the capacity at the state and… Read more »
New published research: Communication About ADHD and Its Treatment During Pediatric Asthma Visits
Betsy Sleath has a new article published in the Community Mental Health Journal entitled Communication About ADHD and Its Treatment During Pediatric Asthma Visits. Additional authors include Sandra H. Sulzer, Delesha M. Carpenter, Catherine Slota, Christopher Gillette, Robyn Sayner, Stephanie Davis and Adrian Sandler This study looked at provider-family communication about attention deficit disorder (ADHD) during… Read more »
Jacquie Halladay publishes paper in JABFM
Quality improvement inititiatives in primary care settings can improve patient outcomes in diabetics in a study published in JABFM by Halladay, et al.
New NCIOM Task Force on Patient and Family Engagement
The NCIOM has received grant support from The Duke Endowment to create a task force on patient and family engagement.
Mouth Care Without a Battle to be distributed to all North Carolina community colleges
The Mouth Care Without a Battle training program and DVD will be distributed to all North Carolina community colleges through a collaboration with the North Carolina Foundation for Advanced Health Programs. Mouth Care Without a Battle is an evidence-based approach to person-centered daily mouth care for persons with cognitive and physical impairment. Philip Sloane, MD,… Read more »
Using “Plasticity” to Model a Community’s Need for Health Care Services
Researchers at the University of North Carolina’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research have introduced a new way of thinking about how to determine physician supply and medical specialty configurations in order to meet health care needs. In an article published in Academic Medicine (November 2013), the authors explore how the concept of… Read more »
States continue to place clinicians where they are in short supply, despite recession
Despite the recent recession, states increased the overall number of loan repayment programs designed to recruit health care professionals to live and practice in underserved communities, according to research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC Center for Health Equity Research Postdoctoral Fellow Announcement – January 7, 2014 deadline
The UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) brings together scholars, trainees, and community members from diverse disciplines to form multidisciplinary teams with a shared commitment to health equity, innovation and translational research. The CHER’s Postdoctoral Program provides early stage investigators with unique opportunities to perform innovative research and strengthen skills in: understanding and addressing… Read more »
Dan Reuland and Michael Pignone | Invited Commentary at JAMA Internal Medicine
Dan Reuland, MD and Michael Pignone, MD, recently published an Invited Commentary at JAMA Internal Medicine. The topic of this commentary is Improving the Quality of Decision-Making Processes for Prostate Cancer Screening Progress and Challenges. The commentary discusses a clinical trial on the use of prostate cancer screening decision aids to improve health care decision-making…. Read more »
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