A CHMP Alarm Sounds During a Baseball Game

This is not about me clarifying anything. It’s about me getting confused. Maybe you can supply the insights.  I’ll supply the confusion.

Tonight I was watching a baseball game. The New York Yankees played The Tampa Bay Rays in a crucial late season game. The game was a disaster for the Yanks. But the real action was in the first inning, when what I have come to call a CHMP alarm went off.

Funny about these CHMP alerts.  They seem to go off more frequently in media settings that are not specifically health related.   Explicit and implicit messages about disease and illness are pervasive. Sometimes they come in the form of an intentional message and sometimes they are embodied in a person you confront on the street whose appearance catches your attention. All sorts of institutions and individuals completely outside the realm of health care are often in the position of providing health-related information. You just never know when the alarm will sound and you will be confronted with a CHMP-worthy insight.

This is not about me clarifying anything. It’s about me getting confused. Maybe you can supply the insights.  I’ll supply the confusion.

Tonight I was watching a baseball game. The New York Yankees played The Tampa Bay Rays in a crucial late season game. The game was a disaster for the Yanks. But the real action was in the first inning, when what I have come to call a CHMP alarm went off.

Funny about these CHMP alerts.  They seem to go off more frequently in media settings that are not specifically health related.   Explicit and implicit messages about disease and illness are pervasive. Sometimes they come in the form of an intentional message and sometimes they are embodied in a person you confront on the street whose appearance catches your attention. All sorts of institutions and individuals completely outside the realm of health care are often in the position of providing health-related information. You just never know when the alarm will sound and you will be confronted with a CHMP-worthy insight.

Tell the White House How Health Care Reform Impacts Your Life

President Obama

The White House launched a new web site 50 Stories/50 states yesterday inviting Americans to post their stories on how the Affordable Care Act impacts their lives. You can listen to these stories while clicking through the critical facts about how health care reform in each state.  Post your story here and share your comments with us too!

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Nursing in the Urban Core: The British Columbia Street Nursing Program

Street Nurses

The Hunter College Center for Health, Media & Policy (CHMP) through a generous grant by the Soros Foundation, will be hosting Juanita Maginley and Fiona Gold, from the British Columbia Street Nursing Program the week of October 25 through October 29th in New York City. Street Nurses work to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS, other morbidities, and mortality in people who are homeless, substance users, and sex workers in Vancouver. Based upon a harm reduction model, it provides outreach and frontline services to clients who eschew traditional health care services.  The program is publicly funded by the British Columbia Center for Disease Control.

Bevel Up is an educational documentary with supplemental material that was developed by and about Street Nursing. The video showcases the work of Street Nursing and provides opportunities for crucial conversations about harm reduction, addictions, at-risk women, HIV/AIDs, community nursing, and outreach. CHMP is creating  multiple opportunities for showcasing Street Nursing as an effective model of harm reduction that can be replicated internationally.A calendar of events and locations will be posted shortly on our blog.

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