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How Cultural Alignment and the Use of Incentives Can Promote a Culture of Health: A new RAND report
Are you interested in learning how cultural identity can be harnessed to create a culture of health? Want to read about how incentives can be used to promote health and well-being? Then you might want to read this report published by RAND which was sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The research was conducted within RAND Health.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asked RAND to examine these two topics to help it understand how organizations are addressing and leveraging culture and incentives to promote health and well-being, as well as to identify facilitators, barriers, potential best practices, and lessons learned that may inform future work in these areas.
This report draws on a series of interviews that RAND researchers conducted with stakeholders whose work focused on cultural alignment, incentives, or both to learn how organizations are addressing and leveraging culture and incentives to promote health and well-being, as well as to identify facilitators, barriers, potential best practices, and lessons learned.
2017 Annual Review of Public Health Now Freely Available Online
The 2017 Annual Review of Public Health is now available via an open access, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Annual Reviews have also released all 37 back volumes (1980-2016) under the same license, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This is a special open access release from the publisher which they hope to be able to find funding for into the future.
Topics covered in the latest volume include:
* climate change and collective violence
* the changing epidemiology of autism spectrum disorders
* the health impact of large-scale changes in public policy
* the value of organic foods in the diet
* surveillance systems to track obesity prevention efforts
The Annual Review of Public Health, in publication since 1980, covers significant developments in the field of public health, including key developments in epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental and occupational health, issues related to social environment and behavior, health services, and public health practice and policy.
New Books!
The Public Health Library has the following new books available in print:
1. The Aging workforce handbook: individual, organizational, and societal challenges. Edited by Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou, Ronald J. Burke, and Sir Cary L. Cooper. Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2017.
Call number:HD6279 .A445 2017
Read a synopsis and an excerpt at amazon.com.
2. The future of health economics. Edited by Olivier Ethgen and Ulf Staginnus. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Call number: R728 .E874 2017
You can read a description, view the table of contents, and read an excerpt at the publisher’s website.
3. Out in the rural: a Mississippi health center and its war on poverty. By Thomas J. Ward Jr. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017.
The first historical account of America’s first rural community health center.
You can see a description and read an excerpt on amazon.com.
and here are some new titles available online from the National Academies Press:
4. Developing Affordable and Accessible Community-Based Housing for Vulnerable Adults: Proceedings of a Workshop. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2017.
5. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2017.
6. Valuing Climate Damages: Updating Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2017.
Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.
You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).
If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.
Health Literacy Online: A Guide for Simplifying the User Experience
Do you create online health content for low-literacy users? If so, then this new guide from the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion might be useful for your work.
Health Literacy Online offers strategies for writing, displaying, and organizing online health content.
These guidelines can help you:
* Write simple, actionable content
* Choose fonts that are easy to read
* Organize and label content in ways that are intuitive for users
* Design for a variety of screen sizes, including mobile phones
* Test your site with limited-literacy users
The guide is written for anyone involved in creating online health content from start to finish — writers and editors, content managers, digital strategists, user experience strategists, web designers, developers, and others. Health Literacy Online recognizes that writing and designing with low-literacy users in mind helps us all — ultimately resulting in health websites that are easier for everyone to understand and use.
New Books!
The Public Health Library has the following new books available in print:
1. Digital health innovation for consumers, clinicians, connectivity, and community: selected papers from the 24th Australian National Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2016). Edited by Andrew Georgiou, Louise K. Schaper, and Sue Whetton. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press, 2016.
Call number: R858.A2 A937 2016
Read a description and browse the table of contents on the publisher’s website.
2. How to publish in biomedicine: 500 tips for success. By John Dixon, Louise Alder, and Jane Fraser. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2017.
Call number: R119 .D59 2017
See the table of contents and a short description at the publisher’s website.
3. Planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs: a primer, 7th ed. By James F. McKenzie, Brad L. Neiger, and Rosemary Thackeray.
New Jersey: Pearson, 2017.
Call number: RA427.8 .M39 2017
View the table of contents in OskiCat.
and here are some new titles available online from the National Academies Press:
4. Accomplishments of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2017.
5. The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research. The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2017.
6. Implementing Evidence-Based Prevention by Communities to Promote Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health in Children: Proceedings of a Workshop..The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2017.
7. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2017.
Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.
You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).
If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.
*New* Icons in PubMed for Articles Freely Available at Institutional Repositories
PubMed now has another way to let you know about more articles that you can get for free. These new institutional repository (IR) icons will link to the free full text of the article at an institutional repository when the article is not freely available from the journal or from PubMed Central.
When an IR is participating in this new feature, the linking icon will show up in the “Full text links” section to the right of the abstract in PubMed. This linking icon will appear for any IR article that does not have another free full text option. The “LinkOut – more resources” section (which you’ll find
below the abstract) will also have a direct link to the full text available from the IR. This area will include links to all the available free full text options.
There are only a few IRs participating in the free full text LinkOut at this time but these few already expand access to about 25,000 publications. The California Digital Library’s eScholarship program is a participant. Click on any a article title here to see the icon for eScholarship.
More information is available in the National Library of Medicine’s Technical Bulletin.
New Books!
1. How to conduct surveys: a step-by-step guide. By Arlene Fink. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2017.
Call number: HN29 .F53 2017
See the table of contents, reviews, and an excerpt at the publisher’s website.
2. Understanding the sociology of health. By Anne-Marie Barry and Chris Yuill. London: Sage Publications, 2016.
Call number: RA418 .B35 2016
Read a short description, see the table of contents, and read an excerpt for this book at the publisher’s website.
3. Social marketing research for global public health: methods and technologies. By W. Douglas Evans. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Call number: RA427 .E926 2016
See the table of contents and an excerpt at amazon.com.
and here are some new titles available online from the National Academies Press:
4. Countering Violent Extremism Through Public Health Practice: Proceedings of a Workshop.The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2017.
5. Communicating Science Effectively: A Research Agenda.. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2017.
6. Accomplishments of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2017.
Please note that these books are only a small selection of what is newly available. If you are interested in checking out any book(s), submit a request using our online form and we will mail the book(s) to you.
You may also log into your web portal account to request book(s).
If you do not currently possess a UC Berkeley library card, you will need to apply for one before we can check out a book to you.
Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project reunites the manuscripts of Irish writer Samuel Beckett’s works in a digital way, and facilitates genetic research. The project brings together digital facsimiles of documents that are now preserved in different holding libraries, and adds transcriptions of Beckett’s manuscripts, tools for bilingual and genetic version comparison, a search engine, and an analysis of the textual genesis of his works. Beckett wrote in both English and French.
The site also includes the Beckett Digital Library (BDL) – a digital reconstruction of Samuel Beckett’s personal library, based on the volumes preserved at his apartment in Paris, in archives (Beckett International Foundation) and private collections. It currently houses 761 extant volumes, as well as 248 virtual entries for which no physical copy has been retrieved.
New CDPH-licensed Resource: Control of Communicable Diseases Manual
In response to CDPH requests, the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, a key standard for communicable disease, is now available for CDPH staff to access from their desktop. The Public Health Library has purchased an online subscription for CDPH.
The online version has a couple of advantages over the print edition:
1) Some new information is only being published in the online version
2) Chapters are updated as new content becomes available
If you are at a CDPH location, you should automatically be able to access the book chapters. If you work off-site or in a non-CDPH building, please contact Debbie Jan at debbie.jan@cdph.ca.gov or (510) 642-2511 for access.
New: PubMed Journals: Find, Browse, and Follow Biomedical Journals
Want an easy way to keep up to date on the articles that are published in journals? The new PubMed Journals may help!
PubMed Journals lets you:
* Easily find and follow journals of interest
* Browse new articles in your favorite journals
* Keep up-to-date with a Journal News Feed containing new arrivals, news links, trending articles, and important article updates (retractions and more!)
Choose from 10 popular journals right on the home page. Or search for other titles of particular interest to you. Click on the Follow button, log in with your NCBI, eRA Commons, Google or NIH account and you’re ready to go! If you do not have an NCBI account, you can go to your CDPH PubMed page and click on Sign in to NCBI in the upper right corner to create an account. It’s free and easy.
See an article that you like that you can’t access? You can request it through your document delivery service.
PubMed Journals is an experiment of PubMed Labs, NCBI’s product incubator for delivering new features and capabilities to NCBI end users.