Community Health and Development News

For decades, statisticians, economists, philosophers and mathematicians have studied how to make decisions in the face of uncertainty, and typically their analyses have focused on how to use probability theory from mathematics to harness this vexing problem.

LAWRENCE - A free University of Kansas program that helps community members with addictions is set to expand thanks to a local grant and support from Douglas County.

LAWRENCE — When one thinks of the military, images of elite, highly fit soldiers often come to mind. Conversely, talk of eating disorders generally steers toward undernourished individuals, often young women.

LAWRENCE — Just as the tools of the classroom have changed from slates and blackboards to tablets and computers, so, too, have the learning goals changed. Reciting facts has yielded to demonstrating higher order learning, including argumentation, decision-making and the ability to compare and contrast.

LAWRENCE — The opioid crisis has brought heightened attention to the effects of addiction on individuals, families and communities.

More than 120 people attended the Health for the 21st Century Summit hosted at the University of Kansas on January 16, 2018. Karen DeSalvo, M.D., M.P.H., and former Assistant Secretary for Health and national expert in Public Health 3.0, served as the Ralph I. Canuteson Memorial Lectureship keynote speaker.

LAWRENCE — A team of public health researchers is finalizing a communitywide health plan for Wyandotte County, the county that encompasses Kansas City, Kansas. The University of Kansas Center for Community Health and Development began a comprehensive yearlong research process in November 2016 that involved stakeholders and policymakers from across the county.

The University of Kansas has been awarded a four-year, $1.7 million U.S. Health & Human Services grant that will examine the effect of the combined support of multiple organizations and agencies on youth violence in Kansas City, Kansas.

A pilot study tracking adolescents’ internal psychological states around engaging in physical activity suggests that prevailing assumptions about how to increase physical activity might need a reboot.