The Department of Public Health Sciences along with the Graduate Public Health Association featured in The Nation's Health - June/July 2009 Issue.
North Carolina forum spotlights health reform
National Public Health Week proved a fitting backdrop for the University of North Carolina-Charlotte’s "Forum on Health Care Reform: Perspectives from the Community."
Held in partnership with the Graduate Public Health Association, Public Health Association and Health Care for America Now!, the forum provided a platform for the community to speak about reform while enabling faculty and students to engage with and listen to local residents. Organizers said the current economic crisis "provided a unique opening to begin rethinking America’s approach to promoting health and organizing, financing and delivering" health services.The forum featured case study presentations from several community organizations serving those most affected by gaps in the current health care system, including a community health center and community clinic. Community residents recounted personal and often emotional anecdotes about their struggles with the health system. Audience members replied with comments and suggestions.
The forum highlighted the fact that the United States spends more per capita on health care than any other nation yet has substantially shorter life expectancies, higher infant mortality and greater health disparities than many other developed nations.
Other National Public Health Week events at the school included a partnership between the Graduate Public Health Association and Fit City Challenge to organize a "fittest department challenge" on campus. The challenge was open to students, faculty and staff in each department, and participants kept a week-long fitness log provided online by Fit City Challenge. The log tracked people’s physical activity as well as vegetable intake.
The Graduate Public Health Association also organized a photo contest, exhibit and reception featuring a display of the photos. The winning photo, showing a smiley face made of vegetables, was designed to promote healthy living by encouraging people to see vegetables in a different light.
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