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Creative Dissemination: Community-Engaged Mural to Disseminate the PORTRAIT Registry on Peripheral Arterial Disease [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Public health initiatives, including community engagement projects, are vital for promoting early diagnosis and encouraging behaviors to combat PAD. Materials detailed resources for PAD screening, physical activity, and smoking cessation and were distributed through dissemination activities and partners.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. In Kaiser Permanente here, we exist to provide high-quality, affordable health care for our patients in the communities we serve. The reception does the same thing, the medical assistant does the same thing.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

And our next guest is Amy Linsky, who’s a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor at Boston University University. Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA.

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Middle to Older Age Latinas Experiences Across the Cervical Cancer Continuum: Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment and Impact [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Cervical cancer screening rates among middle to older age Latinas (>45yrs) - roughly 6.5 Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Our Community Advisory Board (CAB) guided this work. million people in the U.S. – lag behind.

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Episode 213: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 13 – Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Understand how engaged community-based work, centered on trust and accountability, has supported the health of communities served by Oakland, CA’s Asian Health Service. By appreciating the impact of factors affecting entire communities, we can be better positioned to act upon them. Insufficient language services (i.e.,

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. What can we do as a community?

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. Psychedelics have been used by communities around the globe for hundreds of years (or more). Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening.