Epidemiology

Mother and baby unit

On Toughness and Apathy

Clara Schriemer

High-stress health care environments can cause health care workers to establish emotional barriers between patients, work, and self—especially in communities where resources for dealing with trauma are scarce. In an award-winning essay, Clara Schriemer reflects on her time working in a maternity ward in Ghana—an opportunity for intercultural exchange and self-reflection that helped her better understand the role emotional barriers play in her own life.

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The Burden of Heart Disease among Arab Americans in Michigan

Latifa Bazzi

Research on heart disease burden among Arab Americans in Michigan indicates significant disparities across the population, but a lack of data about Arab Americans limits the effectiveness of public health interventions to address these disparities.

biobank

What's a Biobank, and How Can My Health Record Support Research?

Max Salvatore and Lauren Beesley

Advances in genetic science provide us more and more information about our health. Biobanks are increasing the organization of that data so we can ask and answer crucial health questions more rapidly, from diseases we might have to how we might respond to certain drug treatments.

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How Do We Overcome the Burden of Chronic Disease for Older Adults?

Aruna Muthukumar

Over 85 percent of US adults age 65 and over suffer from at least one chronic illness, and about 65–75 percent of those adults suffer from two or more chronic illnesses. How can we manage this burden on older adults as well as the burden on the health care system in cost-effective ways?