The Health Belief Model Explained
This month, we're continuing our summer series exploring some of the most widely used public health theories that help explain why people make the health decisions they do. Last month,…
Understanding Behavior Change: The Transtheoretical Model
This month, we're kicking off a new summer series exploring some of the most commonly used public health theories that help explain why people make the health decisions they do. Public health…
CHIRP Book Chat: Diets, Drugs, & Dopamine by David A. Kessler
We read Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine this past month. We wanted to get a feel for what a public health expert and former head of the FDA had to contribute…
What is Evidence-Based Programming?
What is Evidence-Based Programming? Last month, we talked about public health programming and how structured, focused programs can create real change in communities. This month, we’re looking at the next…
The How and Why of Public Health Programming?
Last year, we briefly introduced the idea of public health programming. But now we want to dig even deeper. Public health programming is how ideas, research, and real-world experience turn…
Weathering: When Inequality Becomes Biology
Weathering: When Inequality Becomes BiologyLast month, we discussed how poverty shapes health. This month, we’re going one step further.We’re talking about how inequality influences health in ways that become embedded in…
Poverty as a Public Health Issue
Last month, we talked about health equity and how health is shaped by the conditions people live in, not just by their individual choices or access to healthcare. This month, we’re going…
What Is Health Equity?
Last month, we talked about social determinants of health, which are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, and how those conditions shape health outcomes. Health equity…
What are Social Determinants of Health?
Public health is referred to as a social science. Social Sciences are the fields that study how people live, work, learn, and interact. When you think about public health as…
What Is Public Health Programming?
The term public health programming might sound a little abstract, but at its heart, it's simply about improving the health of individuals, families, and whole communities through organized, evidence-based action (we talked…