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New Ways to Support Community College Student Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That’s why researchers at Ithaka S&R found that three in four community college provosts rate student physical and mental health as critical to student success. Please urge community colleges to participate in the first-ever national survey of their health service offerings.

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Health Equity, Working to Identify Effective Policy Interventions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Compared to the average person living in urban areas, people in rural communities often suffer from more inadequate access to healthcare, experience lower quality of care, and have higher mortality risk, Hung said in an email. Since 2009, she’s been engaged in research relating to health services and health equity, she said. “My

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. The pandemic has brought increased awareness of healthcare disparities. We’re diversifying the healthcare workforce.

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jessica Faiz, an emergency medicine physician, assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, and health services researcher at the Greater Los Angeles Veteran’s Affairs Healthcare System. That doesn’t fix healthcare inequalities.”

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Looking to Grow Your Health Care Administration Program? Here Are Four Tips

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Between the 2016-17 and 2020-21 academic years, bachelor’s-level health care administration programs grew by 9.41%, in part to meet rising employer demand for health care administration professionals. Here are four components of a successful health care administration program—and profiles of five institutions succeeding in this market.

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The interplay of occupational subcultures and HE curricula changes how and what student professionals learn

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My EdD viva in 2021 followed an ethnography over several years (starting in 2013) which explored university paramedic students’ enculturation (the process of being socialised in a certain culture), into a traditional National Health Service (NHS) Ambulance Service Trust.