Objective: This study investigated how workplace culture may affect the development of lifestyle medicine (LM) programming in health systems to inform the successful growth of LM programs. No study has examined how the impact of workplace culture (shared knowledge, values and behaviours within an organisation) affects practitioners' abilities to engage in LM.
Design: A cross-sectional, multiple case study investigation of the implementation of LM in five health systems was conducted by administering semi-structured in-depth interviews (n=45) from May 2022 to January 2023.
In 2022, there was a decrease in births in the state with 111 fewer resident newborns than in the previous year. This represented a decrease of 1% of its white and 3.5% of its AIBO (American Indian, Black and Other) births.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lifestyle medicine (LM) is the use of therapeutic lifestyle changes (including a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern; regular physical activity; restorative sleep; stress management; avoidance of risky substances; and positive social connection) to prevent and treat chronic illness. Despite growing evidence, LM is still not widely implemented in health care settings. Potential challenges to LM implementation include lack of clinician training, staffing concerns, and misalignment of LM services with fee-for-service reimbursement, but the full range of factors facilitating or obstructing its implementation and long-term success are not yet understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 2021, South Dakota observed an increase in the number of births from 2020 when the state experienced its lowest historic birth rate. Nonetheless, this increase represented a 3.7 percent decrease from the state's previous five year (2016-2020) mean of live births.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe total number of 2020 resident births in South Dakota continues to decline with a 4 percent decrease from the previous year yielding the state's lowest crude birth rate (12.3 per 1,000 population) since its first recording in 1910. Currently, similar to the U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBetween 2015 and 2019, the total number of births in South Dakota declined by 7 percent. As infant mortality rates are calculated per 1,000 live births, slight increases or decreases in total deaths and deaths due to specific causes manifest in notable shifts in yearly infant mortality rates (IMR). In 2019, 10 more infants died than in 2018 (80 vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe year 2018 continued a three-year trend of decreasing live resident births in South Dakota with increased racial diversity among the minority cohort of newborns. In 2018 there was a decrease in very low birth weight newborns and this was reflected in a decline from the previous year's infant mortality rate (IMR) of 7.8 to 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 2014 there was an increase in the number of births in the state with 24 percent representing minority populations. This year also brought a decrease from 2013 in deaths for infants, yielding an infant mortality rate of deaths per 1,000 live births (5.9) slightly below that of the most current national rate of 6.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study examines maternal and child health core competencies and leadership characteristics of undergraduate students following participation in the Maternal and Child Health Careers/Research Initiatives for Student Enhancement-Undergraduate Program (MCHC/RISE-UP). MCHC/RISE-UP is a 10-week public health leadership program designed to promote diversity in public health workforce through mentored research, community engagement and advocacy, and clinical experiences for undergraduate students.
Description: The MCHC/RISE-UP is a national consortium of University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities including, (1) Kennedy Krieger Institute (Kennedy Krieger, lead institution) partnering with Morgan State University, a Historically Black University, (2) the University of South Dakota partnering with Tribal Serving Institutions; and (3) the University of Southern California Children's Hospital-Los Angeles and their partner institution, California State University Los Angeles, a Hispanic Serving Institution.