Participate in a University of Sydney study on health literacy and social connection

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#healthliteracy #distributedhealthliteracy #socialnetwork #socialconnection #healthbehavior
@sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social

📄New paper!

In this study, we found that as county-imprisonment rates increased, so too did stroke mortality among county residents. This association was mediated by community mental distress, primary care access, and food environment. Read more here: www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Sarah Stillman investigates deaths related to starvation, dehydration, and neglect in county jails across the U.S.—a crisis sometimes covered up by private health companies and government officials.

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.

If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.

Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

An Idaho history teacher is refusing to remove the classroom sign, “Everyone is welcome here.”

“There are only two opinions on this sign: Everyone is welcome here, or not everyone is welcome here,” she said.

To abandon inclusion is to invite exclusion.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

American chaos: standing up for health and medicine - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"...findings highlight the importance of contextualizing
contemporary health disparities in children and [adolescents and young adults] with cancer and emphasize the potential lasting deleterious impact of discriminatory sociopolitical actions."

acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Scientists are warning that the world has entered a dangerous new era of chaotic floods, storms and fires made worse by human-caused climate change. The wildfires in Los Angeles are just the latest examples of this extreme weather.

The Biden admin. announced it will protect 600M+ acres of U.S. ocean from offshore exploration & drilling.

Thank you Pres. Biden for responding to calls from coastal towns, communities, tribal leaders & countless others who depend on a clean, healthy ocean. oceanconservancy.org/news/biden-a...

Hi Bluesky!

We're a research group at the University of Sydney's School of Public Health. 🛟

We research #healthliteracy & #healthcommunication using behavioural & social science methods.

Follow us for the latest updates on all the exciting projects we're working on!

If you still aim to submit a paper to our journal Health Literacy & Communication Open in December, please get in touch with me by the 20th at carissa.bonner@sydney.edu.au so we can plan how to manage your submission and open access fee waiver over the holiday break. Thank you!