Preventing Chronic Disease
Medical
This series contains podcasts related to CDC's online journal Preventing Chronic Disease.
Location:
United States
Description:
This series contains podcasts related to CDC's online journal Preventing Chronic Disease.
Language:
English
Website:
http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/
Episodes
Combating Racism in Public Health
11/13/2023
Join us as we talk with Dr. Jeff Hall from CDC's Office of Health Equity and Dr. Ebony Boulware from Wake Forest University School of Medicine about impact racism can heave on health.
Duration:00:17:46
Student Discussions: Examining the Link Between Physical Activity Behaviors and Depression among US High School Students
1/25/2023
Join us as we talk with Charles Wang, winner of PCD's Student Research Paper Contest in the high school category. He joins PCD to discuss his winning paper, which examines the association between physical activity and sedentary behavior with depression among high school students.
Duration:00:05:29
Discussing PCD's Student Paper Collection: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Physical Activity Habits of Adults Living in Rural Areas
1/18/2023
Join us as we talk with Wade Creech, winner of PCD's Student Research Paper Contest in the undergraduate category. He joins PCD to discuss his winning paper, which examines the benefits and barriers to engaging in physical activity among adults living in rural North Carolina communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Duration:00:06:31
Discussing PCD's Student Paper Collection: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Hospitalizations
1/12/2023
Join us as we talk with Brendan Seto, third-year medical student at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine in Honolulu, Hawaii, about racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 hospitalizations which may be hidden by race and/or ethnicity misclassification.
Duration:00:09:44
Discussing PCD's Student Paper Collection: Spatial Analysis of Breast Cancer Mortality Rates in a Rural State
1/9/2023
Listen as we talk with Marisa Schulz, winner of PCD's 2022 Student Research Paper Contest in the masters category, about breast cancer incidence and mortality rates in South Dakota and how sociodemographic measures were used to predict those rates.
Duration:00:05:02
Demonstrating How Geospatial Perspectives Can Contribute to Understanding and Addressing the Intersection of Chronic Disease and COVID-19
1/5/2023
Listen as Dr. Jeremy Mennis from the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University; Dr. Kevin Matthews from CDC's Office of the Associate Director for Policy and Strategy; and Dr. Sara Huston from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine share with us how PCD's collection on GIS and COVID-19 highlights the important role GIS and technology plays in understanding the social and environmental determinants of health that cause inequities in infectious and chronic disease risk factors.
Duration:00:23:09
Discussing PCD's Collection on Cancer Screening Prevalence and Associated Factors Among US Adults
5/26/2022
Join us as we talk with Dr. Lisa Richardson, Division Director of Cancer Prevention and Control at CDC, and Dr. Zhen-Qiang (Marshal) Ma, Senior Chronic Disease Epidemiologist and Division Director at the Pennsylvania Department of Health, about PCD's latest collection on cancer screening and prevention and the importance of the research included within.
Duration:00:13:33
Discussing PCD's Collection: Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country
11/23/2021
Listen as Thomas Lawrence from the Urban Indian Health Institute and Dr. Diana Redwood from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium discuss the CDC's Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country collection and the importance of the research included within.
Duration:00:22:23
Obesity Among U.S. High School Students
11/8/2018
Listen as Edward Hu, winner of PCD's 2018 Student Research Paper Contest in the high school category, talks about his recently published research, which looks at obesity among high school students in the United States.
Duration:00:06:42
Tobacco and Alcohol on Television
11/1/2018
Listen as Brittney Keller-Hamilton, winner of PCD's 2018 Student Research Paper Contest in the doctoral category, talks about her recently published research, which looks the frequency of tobacco and alcohol use in adolescents' favorite TV shows and examines whether the rates of tobacco and alcohol use differed by the show's parental rating.
Duration:00:06:06
Estimating Mammography Program Use
10/25/2018
In this podcast interview, Calla Holzahauser, winner of PCD's 2018 Student Research Paper Contest in the graduate category, talks about her recently published research, which estimates the number of women in South Dakota who will participate in a free breast cancer screening program from 2017 through 2022.
Duration:00:04:34
Education's Role in Improving Arthritis Symptoms Among Latino Adults
10/16/2018
Listen as Leigha Vilen, winner of PCD's 2018 Student Research Paper Contest in the undergraduate category, talks about her recently published research, which looked at the education level and health status of Latino adults with arthritis participating in a walking program in North Carolina.
Duration:00:06:44
Patterns and Trends in Cancer Screening
7/24/2018
Listen as Dr. Ingrid Hall, an epidemiologist with CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, talks about her team's recently published research, which examine the prevalence of cancer screening reported in 2015 by U.S. adults.
Duration:00:05:17
Public Libraries as Partners in Health
5/24/2018
Listen as Eliza Whiteman, PhD, discusses her research, which documents and reinforces the evidence that public libraries can be an integral partner in public health.
Duration:00:06:39
Consequences of Inadequate Physical Activity
3/27/2018
Listen as CDC Epidemiologist Susan Carlson, PhD, talks about her research, which estimates the percentage of US deaths attributed to inadequate levels of physical activity.
Duration:00:05:02
What Drives Health Professionals to Tweet About the HPV Vaccine?
2/20/2018
This podcast features Philip Massey, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor at Drexel University and one of the authors of a recent study that looks at what motivates health professionals to tweet about the HPV vaccine. Philip answers questions about his research and what impact social media can have on public health and health care communication.
Duration:00:06:22
Are U.S. Schools Filling the Gap With Programs that Promote Weight Stigma?
12/21/2017
In this edition of PCD Sound Bites, author Erica Kenney, ScD, answers questions about her study, which looked at how frequently U.S. schools used evidence-based obesity prevention programs and how often schools implement programs that may unintentionally worsen weight stigma among students.
Duration:00:09:05
Helping Nevada School Children Become Sun Smart
11/28/2017
This podcast features Christine Thompson, Community Programs Manager at the Nevada Cancer Coalition, and author of a recent study detailing a school-based program to help Nevada school children establish healthy sun safety habits and decrease UV exposure. Christine answers questions about her research and what impact her what impact the program had on children's skin health.
Duration:00:07:23
Promesas y traiciones: una radionovela enfocada en la educación sobre enfermedades crónicas (Promises and Betrayals: A Radio Novella Focused on Chronic Disease Education)
8/2/2012
Los casos de diabetes y de otras enfermedades crónicas en la comunidad hispana de los Estados Unidos siguen en aumento. En este Podcast, los autores de un artículo publicado en la revista Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) de los CDC hablan en acerca de cómo usaron un innovador modelo educativo de entretenimiento para crear una radionovela en español con el objetivo de reducir los factores de riesgo de enfermedades crónicas en este sector de la población.
Duration:00:05:17