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 The
Georgia Public Health Training Center at the University of
Georgia's College of Public Health will host the inaugural
The State of Public Health Conference March 21 at the UGA
Hotel and Conference Center.
Influential
leaders from a variety of sectors and disciplines committed
to improving the health of residents across the state will
be in attendance, including DPH Commissioner Brenda
Fitzgerald, M.D., the conference's plenary speaker. The
meeting aims to move past the issues of the day by bringing
public health professionals together for a practical
discussion about public health in Georgia.
"I think
it's very important for all of us to understand the
challenges we face in Georgia," Fitzgerald said. "This
conference will do that and allow us to take a close look at
how much progress we've made in just a couple of years."
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A family of bacteria has become increasingly resistant to
last-resort antibiotics during the past decade, and more
hospitalized patients are getting lethal infections that, in
some cases, are impossible to cure.
The
findings, published March 5 in the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's
Vital Signs report, are a call to action for the entire
health care community to work urgently -- individually,
regionally and nationally -- to protect patients. During
just the first half of 2012, almost 200 hospitals and
long-term acute care facilities treated at least one patient
infected with these bacteria.
The
bacteria,
carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), kill up
to half of patients who get bloodstream infections from
them. In addition to spreading among patients, often on the
hands of health care personnel, CRE bacteria can transfer
their resistance to other bacteria within their family. This
type of spread can create additional life-threatening
infections for patients in hospitals and potentially for
otherwise healthy people. Currently, almost all CRE
infections occur in people receiving significant medical
care in hospitals, long-term acute care facilities or
nursing homes.
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The American College of Emergency
Physicians (ACEP) has launched "Disaster Hero,"
a game designed to teach families how to prepare
for all types of hazards or emergencies. The
game was developed as part of a grant
administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In the game, the player takes the role of a
Disaster Hero contestant in a high-tech game
show, competing against a computer opponent to
prove his or her disaster knowledge and
preparedness skills.
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When it
comes to food for babies, the breast is best. Years of
research have revealed the health benefits of
breastfeeding for babies and for mothers, and public
health officials, including those at the Georgia
Department of Public Health (DPH), promote the practice.
But what
happens when a mother can't give her baby as much milk
as he needs or if she simply can't breastfeed at all?
Parents who still want their babies to get the health
benefits of breast milk may turn to a breast milk bank,
where parents with a doctor's prescription can purchase
breast milk donated by mothers with extra milk.
But
according to a recent blog from the New
York Times, an increasing number of parents are
turning to the Internet instead, joining an informal
network of parents sharing breast milk.
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On
any given day, students in Gwinnett County Schools
do some academic multitasking in gym class.
Third-graders might solve a math problem that tells
them how many pushups they need to do. A
fourth-grade class might continue classroom work on
reading comprehension in the gym by reading a card
that describes an action they need to perform to
complete an activity or play a game, instead of the
teacher telling them what to do.
Chuck Truett, director of health and physical
education for Gwinnett County Schools, said the
schools use this strategy to help students apply
what they learn in other parts of the school day in
the gym.
"They can learn language arts through movement or
math by playing an instrument," he said. "It brings
concreteness to those abstract ideas they're
learning."
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Whole
Foods Market Recipes is a recipe finder featuring
natural and organic foods. Users are able to search up
to three ingredients or by specific dietary preferences
and needs, such as gluten-free, low-fat, and vegetarian
or vegan. Recipes also include nutritional information
and cooking instructions.
The
application allows users to automatically add
ingredients from a shopping list from a recipe,
including quantities to prevent overbuying. Items can
also be added, edited, rearranged by hand and synced to
the application via email.
The
store locator feature enables users to find local Whole
Foods Market stores, with links to the store website and
specials of natural and organic foods on sale.
To download for iPhone and iPad, click
here.
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State of Public Health |
CDC: 'Nightmare Bacteria' |
Game Turns Kids Into Disaster Heroes |
Milk from Another Mother |
Math, Science and English Get Physical |
App Features Natural & Organic Recipes |
PHBRIEFS |
PHNEWS |
PHRECIPE |
PHTRAINING |
PH
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