Kim’s public health blog

The A,m healthgency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the AARP today released two new checklists designed to help men and women over the age of 50 learn how to stay healthy and prevent disease.
AHRQ and AARP also released an accompanying wall chart,the Staying Healthy at 50+ timeline, that provides information about recommended preventive services and can be posted in both clinical and community settings. These three publications Men: Stay Healthy at 50+, Checklists for Your Health; Women: Stay Healthy at 50+, Checklists for Your Health;and the Staying Healthy at 50+ timeline show at a glance the evidence-based recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force regarding screening tests, preventive medicines and healthy lifestyle behaviors for people 50 and older.

This months Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine is devoted to Sexual Behavior and its ramificatioris for personal health. Some of the topics worth review are:
Are Abstinence-only Programs Effective?
What happens when politics and scientific research collide?
Time for the Male Pill?
You can find them in the Magazine