Resources
Books from CFAH
Jessie Gruman is a well known author. Her work at the Center is captured in her writings. Her books, written for very different audiences, reflect the need for a recognition that our individual and collective behavior impacts the way that we receive health care. To read more about her books, click their titles below.CFAH Publications
Tools for the Medical Home:- Supporting Patient Engagement in the Patient-Centered Medical Home
- Creating a Patient Guide for a "Medical Home" Physician Practice
Prepared Patient
Prepared Patient is a series of monthly print and eNewsletters intended to help Americans participate more fully in their health care. Each month The Prepared Patient explores a new topic to prepare readers for productive encounters with the health care system: whether understanding the need for check-ups, to managing their own chronic diseases, to getting the most value from doctor-patient interactions.To read current and past volumes of the Prepared Patient, click here.
To subscribe to the Prepared Patient, please click here.
Prepared Patient 411
Prepared Patient 411 is a list of resources to help people navigate difficult health care decisions. To view the list of Prepared Patient 411 resources, please click here.Good Behavior
Good Behavior is a monthly electronic newsletter authored by the Center's President, Jessie Gruman, PhD. The newsletter offers health care providers and policy-makers' insight on emerging health care trends and consumer behavior. Anyone can subscribe the newsletter, and subscriptions are free. The Center also encourages readers to print, copy and share Good Behavior content. We ask only that those sharing our content give appropriate recognition to its author and source. To view the current issue of Good Behavior, click here.To subscribe to Good Behavior, please click here.
To view the Good Behavior archives, click here.
Daily Digest
The Daily Digest is issued every weekday by 10:30 a.m. Eastern time. Through the Daily Digest, our readers are linked to the top stories in the morning's news media from around the world. The stories are on the latest evidence-based health research and on policy that affects how people make decisions about their own health care. We monitor news events daily to provide background information and interview ideas for breaking stories and to suggest newsworthy trends in health behavior for feature stories. We also alert journalists by e-mail when a previous study or evidence review might be of use in contextualizing a breaking story.To subscribe to the Daily Digest, please click here.
Health Behavior News Service
The Health Behavior News Service (HBNS) was created to increase coverage of new research findings about behavioral, social, environmental and economic influences on health and access to health care. HBNS regularly reports on important new findings and distributes those news stories — for free — to the media for international dissemination. Working with peer-reviewed medical journals and systematic review providers, HBNS translates scientific evidence into clear language for everyday readers. HBNS also strives to increase patient engagement through the Prepared Patient series: features on how people can better navigate today's health care system.Journalists: Click here for information about subscriptions to received embargoed news stories, or to log-in.
Other readers, click here for more information about HBNS.
Experts from the Center's Speakers Bureau
The Center for the Advancement of Health can provide a number of content experts to speak at your organization's conference or event. Our experts are also available to the media for interview sources and story ideas. To learn more about our content experts click here.
