Scott's Natural Health Institute

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

10 Ways to Pay for Assisted Living

Are you wondering how to pay for assisted living? Read our tips on eight common ways that families pay for assisted living care.

Department of Labor Issues Guide for Employing Home Care Workers

If you employ a home care worker who provides services for a family member with disabilities, you may have to deal with the very strict wage and hour...

Big Raises For Many Home Care Workers Won’t Necessarily Help Senior Citizens

A $15 minimum wage will almost double what many home care workers are paid but won’t solve other problems.

10 Helpful Apps for Senior Citizens

More and more older people are into technologies. If you a the beginner, these are the apps you should try.

How to Recognize Signs It's Time for Assisted Living

Caring for a elderly parents takes a toll on families. When is the right time to move to assisted living? We ask a psychologist for signs.

The 6 Signs You Should Eat More Protein

Experts say most people over 50 fall short of their protein requirements. Here's how you can tell if you need to eat more.

CDC builds community of public health ‘nerds’

Do you like science and care about saving lives? You might just be a public health nerd.

Millennials Are Ready to Change Public Health. Is Public Health Ready?

Did you know that millennials make up 35 percent of the workforce in the United States, but only about 24 percent of state and local health departments? This is despite a 300 percent growth in public health degrees over the past two decades. So where are the millennials, and what do these numbers me

Public Health Matters Flu Prevention

How to help public health survive politics and misinformation

Recommendations to diffuse the politicization of public health: public communication and messaging.

How Investing in Public Health Will Strengthen America’s Health

Investments in public health not only improve the health of society but also advance equity and foster economic and climate resiliency.

The public health playbook: ideas for challenging the corporate playbook

Many commercial actors use a range of coordinated and sophisticated strategies to<br>protect business interests—their corporate playbook—but many of these strategies come<br>at the expense of public health. To counter this corporate playbook and advance health<br>and wellbeing, public health actors need to develop, refine, and modernise their own<br>set of strategies, to create a public health playbook. In this Viewpoint, we seek<br>to consolidate thinking…

Is Pain a Public Health Crisis?

Federal advisory group wants to frame chronic pain as public health problem.

What Can You Do With an MSN in Public Health?

Public health nurses (PHN) focus on entire populations, communities, or groups. Is phn — and an MSN in Public Health — the path for you?

Lyme Disease: A Public Health Risk?

Driverless cars — a public health benefit?

When we think about public health epidemics, smoking, environmental pollution and even gun violence come to mind. But what about driverless cars?

Will Removing Menthol Cigarettes Benefit Public Health?

The increasing use of menthol cigarettes has become a public health burden. Researchers in the U.S have published a paper in BMC Public Health summarizing the r

An Economic Assessment of the Public Health Benefits of Bike Lanes

Bike lanes are considered a social intervention, and not directly medically related. But they are also proving to have an obviously positive effect on public health outcomes.

Body Building Drugs Threaten Public Health

Abuse of performance-enhancing drugs isn't just a problem of top athletes -- it's a large-scale public health problem that affects some 3 million people who use them in the U.S., according to a new sc