Health-care budgets are largely spent on treating the complications of chronic diseases, many of which have preventable risk factors. Here, we discuss some of the key issues in the necessary move ...

Suicide Prevention in Nursing; Breaking the Silence is the first program of its kind. The Suicide Prevention in Nursing: Breaking the Silence model, inspired by the first national longitudinal study ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, healthcare was centered around acute care -- if you got sick, you called a doctor. As the century progressed, infectious diseases gave way to chronic diseases as ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado was recognized for its efforts in youth suicide prevention by participating in a study funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Sources of ...

“To prevent” literally means “to keep something from happening.” Different notions about what that something is—first incidence, relapse, disability associated with a disorder, or the risk condition ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is on track to become one of the defining public health challenges of our time. Every three seconds, somewhere in the world, someone is diagnosed with dementia, and it’s ...