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Topic: Community health

Relevant Issues of Findings Magazine

George A. Kaplan, PhD Professor in Epidemiology Phone: (734) 615-9209 E-mail: gkaplan@umich.edu Faculty Profile Recent studies by Kaplan and colleagues have detailed the cumulative cost of socioeconomic disadvantage on health and functional outcomes in the elderly and the role of equity in the distribution of income on overall health of populations. MORE
Richard L. Lichtenstein, PhD Associate Professor in Health Management and Policy Phone: (734) 936-1316 E-mail: lichto@umich.edu Faculty Profile Co-PI in the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research, a CDC-funded project conducting community-based participatory research in Detroit. Also works to enroll uninsured low-income children in Medicaid or in the state's new MIChild Program, and works with the CHASS Health Center in Southwest Detroit to provide advocacy services to Hispanic patients enrolled in Medicaid Managed Care Plans. MORE
Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 24 Number 2	Midlife Research News: Food & Transitions Alumni Network: Change: Microfinance & Motion (Marcia Metcalfe, Michelle Segar, Bobby Pestronk)
Fall/Winter 2008 Volume 24 Number 1	Their Town: The Kids of Flint, Michigan
Fall/Winter 2007 Volume 23 Number 1	Hope in the Click of a Camera
Spring/Summer 2007 Volume 22 Number 2	inFOCUS: Teen smoking, by location
Fall/Winter 2006 Volume 22 Number 1	Future Findings-- Racism's Toll on Health Alumni Network (Jim Highland)-- When the Numbers Add Up
Spring/Summer 2006 Volume 21 Number 2	Aftermath: The Psychological Toll of Terror-- Epidemiologist Sandro Galea is finding that for countless of victims of disaster, it's not the event itself that wounds, but what comes later. Alumni Network (Yael Hoffman)-- During the Danger
Fall/Winter 2005 Volume 21 Number 1	Future Findings-- Empowering Youth to End Youth Violence Alumni Network (William Newbrander)-- From Devastation to Hope: Rebuilding Afghanistan's Broken Health System
Spring/Summer 2005 Volume 20 Number 2	When Fathers and Sons Spend Time Together, they grow rich "with love, caring, understanding, quality time, and sharing," says one graduate of a novel project that has changed the lives of nearly 200 families in Flint, Michigan. (PDF) Future Findings-- A Decade of Work Toward a Healthier Detroit (PDF) Future Findings-- The Health Costs of Economic Growth (PDF) Alumni Network-- Planting the Seeds Snapshot-- Joel Egnater
Spring/Summer 2004 Volume 19 Number 2	Countdown: How the new SPH Michigan Academic Center for Public Health Preparedness is helping the state and the nation prepare for new acts of bioterrorism (PDF).
Fall/Winter 2003 Volume 19 Number 1	Future Findings: Better Neighborhoods, Better Health (PDF, page 3).
Spring/Summer 2003 Volume 18 Number 2	Fat of the Land: What public health is doing to combat the obesity epidemic in the United States (PDF, page 8-17) Future Findings-- Healthier Living (PDF, page 7)

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