Community Health Services
Self-measured BP control initiative lowers communities’ rates of uncontrolled hypertension
Additional training and technical assistance to improve self-measured BP in communities with high rates of uncontrolled hypertension successfully increased BP control from 2020 to 2022, a speaker reported.
ECHO-Chicago program improves self-efficacy across 11 clinical areas
The ECHO-Chicago program — the first urban-centered ECHO program — improved self-efficacy across multiple clinical topics, ranging from behavioral health to hypertension, according to researchers.
VIDEO: Breast cancer screening lacking in women experiencing homelessness
CHICAGO — Just 18% of women experiencing homelessness who were eligible underwent a mammography over a 5-year period, according to research presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.
Bon Secours Mercy Health enters collaborative relationship with Strive Health
Barbershop intervention for hypertension may be cost-effective
An intervention for uncontrolled hypertension in the setting of a barbershop may be a cost-effective strategy to improve systolic BP control among Black men, according to data published in Circulation.
USC professor honored with distinguished lectureship
American Association for Cancer Research honored Lourdes A. Báezconde-Garbanati, PhD, with the AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities.
AAFP: Lack of congressional action puts health care of millions at risk
American Academy of Family Physicians president John Cullen, MD, warned that Congress’ failure to approve comprehensive funding legislation by Nov. 21 — which provides 70% of the funding to community health centers and reauthorizes the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program — could have dire consequences.