HealthConnections
Every Other Tuesday during Morning Edition and All Things Considered
The brainchild of University of Tennessee Nursing professor emerita Dr. Carole R. Myers, HealthConnections examines the intersections between people, health, and policy.
What constitutes health? What does it mean to have or lack access to healthcare services? What are our most vexing health and healthcare challenges and how are they influenced by public policies?
In this biweekly series, Dr. Myers and her guests sort through these issues and more, giving you tools for understanding what you hear on the news and for separating fact from fiction in the healthcare debate.
If you have questions, comments or topic suggestions, reach out to Dr. Myers via email.
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This week on HealthConnections discusses World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, held from November 18 through 24, with this year’s focus on preventing antimicrobial drug resistance, or AMR. Dr. Carole Myers, a professor emeritus in the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, talks with Dean David White, the interim dean for the University of Tennessee Herbert College of Agriculture. -
This episode of HealthConnections focuses on the sport of pickleball. Dr. Carole Myers, a professor emeritus in the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, talks with Elaine Culbert of Oak Ridge about how to play, the history of pickleball, and some safety statistics. Is the hype about the international phenomenon of Pickleball backed-up by tangible benefits? What are the health connections?
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This episode of HealthConnections centers on diseases that are transmitted from infected ticks to humans and the various types of ticks in Tennessee and how to protect oneself from ticks. Dr. Carole Myers, a professor emeritus in the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, talks with Dr Becky Trout Fryxell, an entomologist at the University of Tennessee Herbert College of Agriculture, whose specialty is improving human and animal health by understanding and managing insects that carry diseases, including ticks, mosquitoes and flies.
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This episode of HealthConnections discusses vaccines to help prevent another triple pandemic as the winter approaches and thus the rise of influenza, COVID-19 and RSV. Dr. Carole Myers, a professor emeritus in the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, talks with Dr. Megan Edwards, a public health officer of the Knox County Health Department.
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One Health is an approach and an outlook for understanding and addressing contemporary health challenges. A One Health approach recognizes that health challenges have multiple interrelated causes, and interrelated interventions. This episode of HealthConnections examines how the arts and humanities can help us understand health challenges, and forge interventions with a focus on sustainability and environmental, planetary, human and animal well-being.
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September is designated as National Suicide Prevention Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), suicide is the second leading cause of death among people ages 15 to 19. And for every person who dies by suicide, there are even more people among this age group who report serious thoughts about suicide, or have attempted suicide. Dr. Carol Meyers, a professor emeritus in the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, talks with Clark Flatt, president of the Jason Foundation, an organization dedicated to the prevention of the silent epidemic of youth suicide. -
Discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) are pervasive. While AI is already helpful in the day-to-day, there are legitimate concerns about the perils or potential perils of artificial intelligence. In this episode of Health Connections, Dr. Carol Meyers, a professor emeritus in the University of Tennessee College of Nursing, talks with Dr. Tammy Wyatt, the associate dean for research at the University of Tennessee College of Nursing.
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Homelessness takes a toll on individuals & communities. Dr. Carole R. Myers and Erin Read of the Knoxville-Knox County Office on Housing Stability talk about the problem of homelessness in Knoxville and Knox County and what is being done to address the problems associated with homelessness.
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Why is the United States considered one of the unsafest places to give birth? Dr. Carole R. Myers and Dr. Julia Philippi of Vanderbilt University peel back the layers to look at disparities based on race, ethnicity, and geography, the factors that contribute to disparities, and what can be done to protect mothers.
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34 million people in the United States, including 9 million children, are food insecure. In Tennessee, one in nine people face hunger. Children fare even worse as one in eight Tennessee children face hunger.Rural communities are especially hard hit by hunger and food insecurity. People from African-American, Latino and Native American communities have higher rates of hunger than other communities. Poverty is a common denominator in many instances of hunger and food insecurity.
