Public Health Campaigns

policy issues, reforming hc

Healthcare Associated Infections: What’s an Infographic Got To Do With It?

David Harlow | July 10, 2011

The good people at GE and JESS3 have come up with an HAI infographic. It’s pretty, and it conveys the horrible information that many of us already know — healthcare associated infections kill about 100,000 people a year, and add $35 billion a year to our collective health care bill (here in the US of [...]

Social Media’s Promise for Public Health

Susannah Fox | August 18, 2009

Federal agencies can, and should, be the first responders to health questions. Social media can help. That’s my summary of presentations from last week’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media conference, where I had the sense, once again, of a tribal meeting, but this one had the urgency of war council. The enemy [...]