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Archives for August 2013

Resilience

August 24, 2013 By Susannah Fox 5 Comments

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The following essay appeared in The Washington Post magazine in a column that asks: “So much is contained in such small things. What holds meaning for you?” I wrote it as a tribute to my father’s resilience, which I hope to pass down to my sons: I was 24 and still called Susy when my […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder Tagged With: family

Screen time of a different kind

August 9, 2013 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Filed Under: beauty and wonder

Public Q&A: Is there data to help a public health campaign reach 12-17 year-olds?

August 8, 2013 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Here’s a data request I can’t fulfill, so I’m sharing it in the hopes that our community may provide some help: We are going to do a general market campaign targeting at-risk youth and youth who have already experimented but don’t consider themselves [tobacco] users or smokers.  We are also doing campaigns targeting multicultural youth, […]

Filed Under: demographics, public Q&A Tagged With: teens, tobacco

Peer-to-peer health care is a slow idea that will change the world

August 3, 2013 By Susannah Fox 63 Comments

2018 update: Watch a 10-minute video that captures the essentials of peer health advice. Someone recently asked me to name the most exciting innovation in health care today. I think he was hoping for a sexy technology tip, like an app that’s catching fire in the expert patient communities I follow. Nope. I’ve said it […]

Filed Under: patient networks, peer-to-peer health care, positive patterns Tagged With: Atul Gawande, C3N Project, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Smart Patients

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