Community Commons Seeks to Advance the Movement Toward Building Healthy, Sustainable Communities
There’s a movement afoot to build more sustainable, livable, healthy communities. It is a movement that is growing in momentum…
Obesity Prevention and Treatment in Focus at Oakland Screening of HBO Doc Weight of the Nation
Last night, a Northern California screening of HBO's documentary, The Weight of the Nation, was held for an audience of…
HBO Documentary Weight of the Nation Previews in Colorado
Launching one of the nation’s largest public health campaigns on obesity to date, HBO has joined with the Institute of…
Healthier Hospitals Initiative Seeks to Boost Health Care Sustainability
Hospitals take care of sick people, but they can also work to heal the environment. That’s the goal of the…
In DC this Week: It’s All About Health
This week, Washington, D.C. is hosting two meetings focused on health: TEDMED, of course, is underway, as well as the…
Using Theater to Improve Childhood Literacy and Lifelong Health
Gerry Farrell Children’s early acquisition of language is a strong predictor of overall development, including success in school and lifelong…
The Link Between Early Childhood Literacy and Health
More than 500 grantmakers gathered March 7 - 9 at the annual Grantmakers in Health Philanthropy conference in Baltimore. There…
Transforming Care Delivery through Video Ethnography: A Conversation with Estee Neuwirth, PhD
We at the Center for Total Health blog are fascinated by the work made possible through video ethnography. So we…
Using Video Ethnography to Improve Quality of Care
Are you familiar with the practice of video ethnography? It is the use of interviews and observations in real time,…
The Impact of the Health Care Sector on our Environment
It is understood that health care activities as a whole contribute 8 percent of the United States' total greenhouse gas…