A 5-year randomized trial showed that the Million Hearts Model, which paid health care organizations to monitor and reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, was effective in reducing first-time heart ...

We follow our previous work 1 in justification for the use of the Graphical Models (GM) to study and mitigate pandemics. Therefore, we start from providing a brief recap of the prior literature on ...

Health-care budgets are largely spent on treating the complications of chronic diseases, many of which have preventable risk factors. Here, we discuss some of the key issues in the necessary move ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is on track to become one of the defining public health challenges of our time. Every three seconds, somewhere in the world, someone is diagnosed with dementia, and it's ...

Suicide Prevention in Nursing; Breaking the Silence is the first program of its kind. The Suicide Prevention in Nursing: Breaking the Silence model, inspired by the first national longitudinal study ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, healthcare was centered around acute care -- if you got sick, you called a doctor. As the century progressed, infectious diseases gave way to chronic diseases as ...

A new strategy to tackle suicide prevention is getting underway, with a $306,000 grant to further the work of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of El Paso County. “This is a big deal in that it ...