Setting the standard for health departments (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 North Carolina is the first state to require health departments to provide at least a basic level of service quality for its citizens. To date, 55 of... Read more »
Carolina Public Health Magazine
Setting the standard for health departments (Spring, 2011)
Training patients to manage their pain (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 Coping with chronic pain is possible but challenging. Evidence shows that many patients report uncontrolled pain and that this is a source of distress for patients and... Read more »
Swa koteka -- ‘It is possible’ to prevent HIV (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 Even without engaging in risky behaviors, young girls and women who live in South Africa have a 1-in-3 chance of contracting HIV. Audrey Pettifor, PhD, assistant professor... Read more »
Treatment and prevention in the ‘buckle’ of the stroke belt (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 During the last 20 years, North Carolina has edged toward the top of an ignominious list. The state currently has the sixth highest incidence of stroke mortality... Read more »
The public’s health should not wait for solutions (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 The public’s health is too important to be kept waiting. All around us: New diseases emerge and spread throughout the world at sonic speed; old nemeses sometimes... Read more »
From the Dean's desk (Spring, 2011)
May 27, 2011 Since the last issue of Carolina Public Health, much has changed — composition of Congress and our state legislature, political uprisings in the Middle East, earthquakes and... Read more »
Heather Wasser (Fall, 2011)
December 27, 2011 Share Doctoral student Nutrition Dr. Bentley had me at hello. “Well, truthfully,” Heather Wasser says, “it was at her talk at the 2004 North Carolina Women, Infants... Read more »
Nora Rosenberg (Fall, 2011)
December 27, 2011 Share Doctoral student Epidemiology 2011 Winstanly Scholar “A colleague once described an ideal career as one that combines ‘the world’s great need with your great joy,'” Nora... Read more »
Lexie Perreras (Fall, 2011)
December 27, 2011 Share Master’s student Health behavior and health education Lexie Perreras became interested in public health through an undergraduate multicultural psychology course. She was appalled that racial... Read more »
Maeve McGarry (Fall, 2011)
December 27, 2011 Share Undergraduate Environmental sciences and engineering Trude Bennett, PhD, professor of maternal and child health, traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, in fall 2011, to facilitate the UNC Burch... Read more »