How can your curiosity make you healthier? Researchers from the American Psychological Association (APA) found that when people's curiosity was piqued, they were more enticed to take the healthier action required to find out missing information. Multiple experiments were tested using the same strategies websites creators employ, like "clickbait". Where the strategy uses catchy titles or headlines on a website to encourage users to take an action, like "click this link" to learn more and find the answers.
Experiment 1: Fortune Cookies
In one experiment, participants were given a choice to pick between two fortune cookies: one plain and one chocolate dipped with sprinkles. The plain cookie had a fortune note of something personal that the researchers knew about the person being ...
Recently, the Pew Research Center released a report in July that showed Latinos are heavily reliant on their mobile phones for their Internet access. Latinos utilized their mobile phones for this purpose more than any other ethnicities. Since 2012, according to the report, the percentage of Latino adults who used mobile devices to access the Internet rose from 76% to 94% in 2015. “While Latinos have lagged other groups in accessing the internet and having broadband at home, they have been among the most likely to own a smartphone, to live in a household without a landline phone where only a cellphone is available and to access the internet from a mobile device,” Pew Researchers said. In order to reduce health disparities, it is critical to address inequities in programs, ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have released a new set of resources and tools through their Coverage to Care (C2C) initiative that are designed to help people understand their health coverage and connect their primary care and preventive services. Studies have shown that utilizing healthcare services and preventive care can extend an individual’s lifespan. C2C resources are available in several languages and are designed to help people understand how to better used their coverage to care for their health. Some of the available resources include Navigating Health Coverage. Covered in this area is a step-by-step guide to explain what health coverage is and how to use it to get primary and preventative care services. There are also downloadable .pdf bilingual ...
Educational attainment for U.S. Latinos has rapidly changed in recent years as it has begun reflecting the population’s growth. Latinos have experienced growth in the nation’s public K-12 schools and in its colleges and universities. In the past 10 years, the high school dropout rate for Latinos has declined while college enrollment has increased. Latinos still trail other ethnic and racial groups in terms of bachelor’s degrees earned. In a recent poll, roughly 83% cited education as being very important in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, ranking alongside the economy, health care, and terrorism as the top issues for Latinos. Despite the emphasis on education and the gains Latinos have made, there are still obstacles to college enrollment for many. In a 2014 National ...
A new released Toolkit on Sugary Advocacy from Healthy Food America helps explain the need to reduce sugar in our diets, why it's important to know amounts of sugar in foods and drinks and the latest on sugar reduction policies. According to the research from Healthy Food America, 68% of packaged foods include some type of sugar. Studies from Harvard T.H. Chan School of public health also reveal that regular consumers of sweet beverages like soda, sweet teas, not 100% juices had a 26% higher risk of type 2 diabetes. Latino kids, unfortunately, are already more likely to grow up with unhealthy weights and be more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, as they consume higher amounts of juices, and other sweetened drinks, studies show. For parents, teachers, health advocates and ...
In July 2016, The Lancet published its second Series on physical activity, which presents an update of the field since 2012 when physical inactivity was identified as important a modifiable risk factor for chronic diseases as obesity and tobacco, as well as the largest systematic review on the associations of of sedentary behavior and physical activity with all-cause mortality, and the first global estimate of the economic burden of physical inactivity. Direct health-care costs and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) attributable to physical inactivity were estimated for coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, and colon cancer, and productivity losses were estimated with a friction cost approach for physical inactivity related mortality. According to ...
One hour of physical activity per day could offset the risk of sitting for 8 hours per day. However, regardless of physical activity, watching TV for three hours or more per day was associated with increased risk of death, except in the most active quartile (ie, about 60-75 minutes per day), where risk of death was significantly increased only in people who watched TV for 5 or more hours per day. In 2012, in The Lancet's first Series on physical activity, physical inactivity was identified as important a modifiable risk factor for chronic diseases as obesity and tobacco. Modifiable risk factor is something that a person can modify now to improve their health, such as quitting smoking, reducing body fat percent, or walking more. In July 2016, The Lancet published its second ...
New research released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has determined that if the 19 states that have not yet currently expanded Medicaid benefits were to do so in 2017, up to over 5 million fewer people would go uninsured. The research RWJF utilized for the report is based on Medicaid and Healthcare Marketplace data. The states where the largest drops would occur are Texas, Georgia, and Florida. Groups that would see the largest drops in uninsured rates are adults without kids (over 3.5 million), people with only a high school education (over 2 million), and Hispanics/Latinos (1.2 million). In order to reduce health disparities, it is critical to address inequities in programs, practices, and policies. Join our site, connect with others, and get ...
The Colorado Health Foundation and the Colorado HeaIth Institute have issued new Data Spotlight, Where Health Happens. The report, to be released on Wednesday, July 27, at the Colorado Health Symposium, builds on the local Symposium event theme, “Health is Everyone’s Business."
The report highlights five nontraditional drivers of health, along with disparities and opportunities for improvement across the state in education and child care, financial security and safety, food access, housing, and transportation.
The report also features three stories of Colorado communities taking action to improve health including two Denver neighborhoods and the city of Walsenburg.
To learn more and view the report here.
The speakers and conversations will be broadcast live July 27-29th. To make ...
