Dr. Phil McGraw and Dr. John Whyte Most health care professionals know they can’t fully assess patients’ health without looking at social determinants, the nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes. Income, housing, quality of schools, access to fresh produce and other factors play an important
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Food as medicine is real
Mickie Cathers According to a new study published June 22, 2023, in the Lancet, the prevalence of diabetes will increase 60% worldwide by 2050. One key to the puzzle is how individuals and the health care community approach diabetes and how that relates to food
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DVIDS – News – Navy Expeditionary Preventive Medicine Team Returns Home After Successful Mission
The Forward Deployable Preventive Medicine Unit TEAM ONE (FDPMU-1), an operational medical platform made up of public health experts from Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit TWO (NEPMU-2) Norfolk, VA, returned from Krakow, Poland, July 8, 2022, after a five month deployment. The team
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