July 19, 2022
The Community Health Corner
Submitted by Stephanie Gutierrez
Community health uses science-based approaches for the greatest health benefit to the greatest number of people by addressing the social, economic and structural drivers that impact everyone’s health. The National Extension Framework for Health Equity and Well-being recommends using community development practices to ensure that every person has the opportunity to "attain his or her full health potential," and no one is "disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances." The following tools and resources can be used to improve health equity and well-being by working with communities to achieve the nation’s Healthy People 2030 objectives.
READ NOW: Suicide is the second leading cause of death for adolescents and young adults in the United States. In-person bullying is known to raise the risk of thoughts of suicide and attempts for both victims and perpetrators. However, links between cyberbullying and thoughts of suicide and attempts are less well understood than the effects of in-person bullying. Read the NIH’s report - Cyberbullying linked with suicidal thoughts and attempts in young adolescents to find out more about how cyberbullying affects adolescent mental health.
DISCOVER NOW: Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Raising the Bar provides an actionable framework for the entire healthcare sector—from providers to payers to the public health community—to embed equity throughout its work and help achieve optimal health for all. Raising the Bar worked with healthcare leaders and those who experience inequities to craft foundational, central principles that can serve as healthcare’s gravitational force to continuously center equity work. Essential roles healthcare must play revolve around these principles, each with corresponding concrete actions that can improve equity.
USE NOW: Gun violence is a major public health problem in the United States, with negative mental and physical impacts that reach far beyond any single event and may endure for years. Between 2015 and 2020, both overall firearm deaths and the number of mass shootings increased across the US. Among children and adolescents, guns have become the leading cause of death nationwide, with nearly 6.1 deaths per 100,000 people relating to firearms. Visit the NIHCM Foundation’s - Gun Violence:
The Impact on Public Health infographic page to use this resource or learn more.
For more information, contact Elaine Johannes, ejohanne@ksu.edu; and Stephanie Gutierrez, smgutier@k-state.edu.