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Preventing Chronic Disease

Updated July 14, 2022

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Pharmacy Program Screens Patients for Opioid Misuse and Accidental Overdose Risk

Learn how an opioid misuse and accidental overdose prevention program in North Dakota pharmacies helped increase patient awareness of opioid risks and ways to reduce risk.

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July is Healthy Vision Month

Research shows that the use of patient navigators, in conjunction with social worker support, increases adherence to recommended follow-up eye appointments among patients with glaucoma. Read the study to learn more.

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PCD Call for Papers on Combating Racism
PCD Call for Papers on Combating Racism

PCD is interested in publishing peer-reviewed papers offering insights into the roles of public health, medicine, and policy to combat all forms of racism through research, training, practice, and public health policies. Learn more.

New GIS Collection: Chronic Disease and COVID-19
New GIS Collection: Chronic Disease and COVID-19

This collection brings together public health and social sciences experts to demonstrate how geospatial perspectives can contribute to understanding and addressing the intersection of chronic disease and COVID-19. Read the collection.

Volume 19

ISSN: 1545-1151

Visual Abstracts

Wristband Activity Monitors Not as Accurate as Hip-Worn Pedometers
HPV Vaccination Declined Among Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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