How School-based Health is supporting kids with chronic conditions
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School-based Health Centers and Kids with Chronic Illness

School-based health centers (SBHCs) provide a variety of health care services to students—and often their families and/or community members.  Located in a school building on campus, SBHCs increase health care access by removing barriers to health care that many families face. At Roberts Paideia Academy’s SBHC, Nicole DeGreg is the Nurse Practitioner who sees patients….

The link between physical and mental health.
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Mental and Physical Health: Hand in Hand

“Stress affects physical health—and it keeps people from going to their [doctor] appointments,” says Christine Young, who trained as a Community Health Worker (CHW) through Health Care Access Now (HCAN). As a care coordinator for Talbert House, Young administers a screening to outpatient mental health clients that helps reveal health-related social needs, such as issues…

Community Health Workers support clients with chronic illness, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Support in Managing Chronic Illness: How CHWs Help

Coping with chronic disease can feel like a part-time job. People with chronic illnesses have to attend more frequent medical appointments, make sure they stay on top of their medication, and even do things like change their diet to manage disease progression. Doing all of that can take a mental toll. James Stringer, Community Health…

How diet and exercise can influence chronic illness.
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How Diet and Exercise Can Influence Chronic Illness

Chronic illnesses may affect all sorts of body systems.  For example, diabetes can affect the cardiovascular system, the eyes, kidneys, nerves, skin, and teeth. Arthritis affects muscles, bones, joints, and—depending on the type of arthritis—the associated inflammation can affect other body systems, such as the heart or the skin. Chronic kidney disease affects the kidneys,…

Chronic illness in Ohio ranks among the worst in the United States.
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What Is a Chronic Illness?

Six in 10 Americans are living with conditions that limit the way they live or require regular medical attention. When these kinds of conditions develop slowly over time and last for longer than a year, they are referred to as chronic disease. Chronic disease should not be confused with acute conditions, which develop suddenly and…