  Kaiser Permanente Helps People Make Their Communities Healthier, One Image at a Time
Kaiser Permanente’s Community Health Initiatives program is delivering powerful community-based prevention. The big idea: improve people’s health by making the healthy choice the easy choice. A core element of CHI is Photovoice, a community change strategy in which residents take pictures of barriers to health and safety in their communities, and then present them to decision-makers to advocate for change. Read on for more information, and for a video depiction of one Photovoice success story. |
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| Kaiser Permanente Participates in Health Data Exchange Demonstration The exchange, among five health providers, verified the ability to share patient clinical information among regional networks in California. Low-cost access to data exchange technology is a key component in President Barack Obama’s goal of meaningful electronic health records use by 2014. |
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| 6/23/09 | Underweight and Extremely Obese Die Earlier than People of Normal Weight, Study Finds Underweight people and those who are extremely obese die earlier than people of normal weight — but those who are overweight actually live longer than people of normal weight. Those are the findings of a new study published online in Obesity by researchers at Statistics Canada, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, and McGill University. |