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| February 11, 2013- In This Issue |
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Man Runs to Fight Alzheimer's |
DPH Online Store |
DPH Responds to Winter Tornado |
Community Partners Honored |
Group Aims to Boost Health Literacy |
Burn Victim Shares Story of Survival |
App Monitors Heart Rate |
PHBRIEFS |
PHNEWS |
PHRECIPE |
PHTRAINING |
PHEVENTS
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Jack Fussell at 272 pounds. |
Every day for the past month, Canton resident
Jack Fussell, 62, has laced up his running shoes
and pounded the Georgia pavement, covering about
15 miles each day. But when he's finished, he
doesn't turn around and go home. He's aiming for
California.
Fussell is running across the country to raise
money and awareness for Alzheimer's disease,
which plagued his father before his death in
June 2000. But his run is more than a wacky
fundraiser or a publicity stunt. It's the
culmination of more than a decade of
extraordinary change to his health and his life.
It wasn't long ago that he was 100 pounds
overweight and couldn't take a short hike
without stopping to rest.
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Beginning
this week, orders made at the Georgia Department of Public
Health (DPH) online store will be fulfilled by new vendor,
Land's End. The move comes after several months of concerns
with DPH's previous vendor, which struggled to accept and
fulfill orders due to "significant and lasting" inventory
issues according to DPH Director of Communications Ryan
Deal.
"We
catalogued complaints ranging from product back-orders to
difficulty in maneuverability of the vendor's website," Deal
said. "The vendor fell far short of our expectations and
last week we selected a new vendor which we believe can meet
our demand for quality products."
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A convenience store employee collects what
he can from the rubble of where the business
once stood at the intersection of Cherry
Street and U.S. 41 after the deadly tornado
hit downtown Adairsville Jan. 30. Photo
courtesy of Erin Gray, Neighbor Newspapers.
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Recovery
efforts continue in Adairsville, the focal point of
devastation wrought by an EF-3 tornado and accompanying
storms Jan. 30.
Various
media sources in Georgia reported on the 160
mile-per-hour winds that toppled structures, tossed
vehicles and wiped out power service for thousands. Two
died and many others were injured in the storms that
caused an estimated $75 million in damage.
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James Emery, MPH, from the University of North
Carolina's Gillings School of Public Health,
discusses obesity at a Celebrate Health North
Georgia event as colleague Carolyn Crump, Ph.D.,
looks on. Photo courtesy of Dave Parrish, director
of marketing for Lanier Technical College. |
For
every one dollar spent on the prevention of chronic
health conditions, approximately $21 in future
medical costs are saved. This was the message from
organizers of January's Celebrate Healthy North
Georgia event at Lanier Technical College in Forsyth
County. District 2 Public Health, along with
community partners within the 13-county district,
came together to celebrate and recognize 21
organizations that have implemented programs to
improve health in their communities.
"Twenty-one organizations were chosen from
nominations from our 13 counties to represent the
savings that can be realized by prevention," said
Anderson Flen, health promotions coordinator for
District 2 Public Health. "This also shows that
there are a lot of people, businesses and
organizations working to improve health, as well as
access to health and wellness resources in our
area."
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 Pop quiz: do you know which immunizations you need and where
to get them? What about how to interpret a health insurance
policy or how much exercise you need each week? The
questions seem simple but finding the answers often is not,
especially when they involve navigating the convoluted U.S.
health care system or wading through the flood of health
tips media spout.
Knowing how
to find the answers to such questions is a part of basic
health literacy, an area that is seriously lacking for many
Americans. But a group of public health advocates are
working to help change that in Georgia.
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Lori Mabry, center, with burn survivor
Kyhrie Harris, left, and Dennis Gardin,
executive director of the Georgia
Firefighters Burn Foundation.
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It
only took a few moments for a burn to change Lori
Mabry's life.
As a
teenager in Greenville, S.C., Mabry was riding with
her friends in a Ford Mustang convertible when the
driver lost control of the car. Not wearing a seat
belt, she was tossed out of the car as it flipped
over. Mabry landed underneath it, with the car's
catalytic converter sitting across her stomach.
"I
was basically lying under the car cooking," she
said.
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The
Instant Heart Rate app allows users to instantly and
accurately monitor heart rate during exercise to
optimize performance and track progress. The accuracy of
the app is constantly tested by fitness coaches, nurses,
doctors, EMTs and app users.
Simply
press gently with your fingertip to cover the camera
lens completely. Using just the camera on your
smartphone to detect the pulse from your fingertip, the
app will beep while showing a real-time chart of every
heartbeat. The app also features a continuous or
auto-stop mode, heart rate zones, one week data storage
and tags, and the abilities to export data and share on
Facebook and Twitter.
Click
here to download.
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Home
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Man Runs to Fight Alzheimer's |
DPH Online Store |
DPH Responds to Winter Tornado |
Community Partners Honored |
Group Aims to Boost Health Literacy |
Burn Victim Shares Story of Survival |
App Monitors Heart Rate |
PHBRIEFS |
PHNEWS |
PHRECIPE |
PHTRAINING |
PHEVENTS
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