Now Reading: Addressing Climate Change among Insurers, some are doing more than others
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Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey: 2012 Findings and Recommendations - Ceres
When I asked about the phenomenon of climate change and if the impact on our health was real, a wise person once said to me, “look at insurance companies.” Meaning, look at the industry whose role in society is to understand risk. This report put out by Ceres (@ceresnews), a nonprofit organization advocating for sustainability leadership, capitalized, or [...]
Now Writing: Seven Visual Insights of Social Determinants and Behavior Change – ILN INSIGHTS 2013
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Insights Volume 7 , 2013 - Annual Mashup of all Things ILN
Innovation Learning Network (@HealthcareILN) Insights 2013 is here! And thanks to to the graphical stylings of Tim Rawson (@noswar) and the editing ambrosia of Chris McCarthy (@McCarthyChris), I get to be a part of it. The article as published (on page 58), entitled “7 Visual Insights of Social Determinants” was actually posted on this blog [...]
Now Reading: Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes – A Randomized Social Experiment
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Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment – As compared with the control group, the group with a randomly assigned opportunity to use a voucher to move to a neighborhood with a lower poverty rate had lower prevalences of a BMI of 35 or more, a BMI of 40 or more, and a [...]
Community Health Needs Assessment includes the Environment, and Green Health Care Resources
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After I had the opportunity to write this post on the Robert Wood Johnson Pioneering Ideas blog (see: Pioneering Idea: Your Patient’s Community Health Needs Assessment on the Desktop – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), I learned courtesy of the Environmental Stewardship workgroup that I serve on at Kasier Permanente that one of the indicators in the [...]
Now Reading: Does mobile technology support behavior change? Does it support weight loss?
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The quick answer is: don’t focus on the technology. This is not one, not two, but three papers published in the last six months, the last one last week, encompassing an impressive body of work around behavior change and weight loss, from the same research group led by Bonnie Spring, PhD, at Northwestern University. There’s [...]
Photo Friday: Climate Change is about People, not Polar Bears
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View This is Climate Change – Ads become more relevant from March to November, 2012 on Flickr.com Top image (March 2012): Ineffective Bottom Image (November 2012): Effective If you fly through DCA airport to get to Washington, DC, you’ve probably seen one of the images above on your way to the baggage carousel. I’m there [...]
Why Place Matters – at Net Impact Conference 2012
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View Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley Keynote on Flickr.com (@GovernorOMalley) When I was a medical student, I didn’t have access to the Net Impact organization. It was being conceived by a small group of graduate students, who had their first meeting of 52 people. Instead, I had access to a jarring and sad American Medical Association convention, [...]