Category: Chronic Diseases (page 2)

September 1, 2021 The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Office of Public Health Studies will receive more than $1.4 million in new funding to help fight the health disparities in Hawaiʻi highlighted or worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding is part of a $25 million…

February 26, 2021 | By Tetine Sentell, Catherine Pirkle The United States has been gutting public health for decades and we are all paying the price. In this pandemic, we have seen clearly how the health of individuals and communities are connected. We…

Sept. 20, 2020 | By Blythe Nett, Kevin Watanabe and Tetine Sentell Underlying health conditions such as heart disease, obesity and diabetes increase the risk of severe illness from COVID-19. Managing chronic disease, and preventing it when you can, is…

July 28, 2020 Chronic diseases typically associated with middle age and older adulthood are common in young people needing hospital care in Hawaiʻi, according to public health researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. More than a quarter of hospitalized youth and 12 percent…

April 24, 2020 | By Tetine Sentell Prevention and management of chronic disease are essential to disrupting COVID-19. “I look at my medications: take with food, don’t take on an empty stomach … I never have money. I never have food…

January 7, 2019 In Albanian, “Si je?” means “How are you?” Public health researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa asked exactly that question of an innovative new health program in Albania. Their analysis shows how one country is making progress toward a…