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April 20, 2020 • Community, Public Health, School of Public Health, Sustainability
By Oreoluwa Obayan Help out the disadvantaged, the environment, and your own sense of purpose by donating discarded clothes and household goods during the HSC Fort Worth Clothing Drive, a student project honoring Earth Day. April 22 through May 6, drop off your items in a no-touch bin on the west side of the HSC…
April 20, 2020 • Public Health, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker A high number of Americans – about to 40 percent to 59 percent – live financially close to the edge, with few resources available for emergency backup. Just one rough patch has the ability to throw families off their feet, impacting their ability to make the rent, buy groceries, pay bills, access…
April 15, 2020 • COVID-19, Family Medicine, Public Health, School of Public Health
By Jan Jarvis The minute Dana Litt saw her mother on FaceTime she had no doubts about why she was calling. “My mom was crying and I just knew,” Dr. Litt said. “I was hearing some pretty shattering news, and there was literally nothing I could do.” The feeling of helplessness that Dr. Litt endured…
April 14, 2020 • COVID-19, Public Health, School of Public Health, Students
By Alex Branch Dozens of HSC Fort Worth Public Health students will join the fight against COVID-19 at Tarrant County Public Health by helping gather information about people who may have been exposed to the virus. The students will answer phone lines and help support investigators in the field who perform contact tracing and other…
April 6, 2020 • COVID-19, Public Health, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker The notion of COVID-19 social distancing may seem strange to many of us, but quarantines for the good of public health have been around since the Middle Ages and perhaps even earlier. The practice of separating the sick to keep other populations well is a public health measure credited throughout history with…
April 6, 2020 • COVID-19, Family Medicine, Public Health
By Jan Jarvis A terrible triad – trauma, isolation and lack of structure – is driving more people to drink alcohol and use drugs. Unemployment, lack of health insurance and fear of the unknown are just of few of the traumas people are dealing with amid COVID-19. People are searching for ways to cope with…
April 6, 2020 • COVID-19, Public Health
By Alex Branch The COVID-19 pandemic could cause lasting fundamental changes to the U.S. health care system, including how and where patients receive care, said an HSC Fort Worth expert in Health Behavior and Health Systems. “Unlike some countries, we have not experienced a hard reset of our healthcare system,” said Thaddeus Miller, PhD, Associate…
April 1, 2020 • COVID-19, Public Health, Safercare Texas
By Sally Crocker Finding the truth has never been more important than now, when people are searching news reports, social media and other resources for COVID-19 advice and information that might help in protecting their health and saving lives, says an HSC researcher. For years, Erika Thompson, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and…
March 30, 2020 • COVID-19, Patient Care, Public Health, Safercare Texas
By Alex Branch and Diane Smith-Pinckney Elderly Americans are at a greater health risk from COVID-19 and likelier to struggle with the isolation of social distancing. How can the rest of us help them? “I grew up in a row house in Philadelphia where everyone knew each other and checked up on the people around…
March 24, 2020 • Community, COVID-19, Provost, Public Health
By Alex Branch The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC) has opened an off-campus COVID-19 testing site for Tarrant County area first responders who may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus but are not experiencing symptoms. Available exclusively to first responders, the testing site is intended to keep first…
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