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Health Education Games - Articles
Newsletter: Navigating Games for Health and Education
by
Alvaro F.
Posted
Tue 30 Sep 2008 12:00am
on the trade-offs videogames present in:
News Round-Up
: a recent (and unpublished) study seems to support the potential role for “Serious Games” in education. Learning... your email at the top of this page.
Quick, Are videogames good or bad?
That’s an impossible question. Good or bad for what? What specific games are we talking about? More
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Board gaming for medical and public health education
by
Thomas S.
Posted
Wed 07 Jan 2009 4:41pm
of them, however, some of which are probably best described as educational games.
Operation (1965) is a battery-operated game for kids from age 6 and older. In Medical Monopoly..., etc., you’ll get more patients.
What’s peculiar about Medical Monopoly — a game which allegedly is used by some school districts in the US to teach health care
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Health Insurers Develop Video Games to Educate and Engage Consumers
by
Dr. Aniruddha M.
Posted
Tue 18 Nov 2008 12:14am
Health Insurers Develop Video Games to Educate and Engage Consumers: "Video games aren't just for fun, say some health plans: They can also teach you healthy habits. Both Kaiser Permanente Health Plan and Humana Inc. said in recent weeks that they are launching video games focused on such topics as obesity and diabetes. Humana is in the early stages
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Education and health blog carnivals
by
Alvaro F.
Posted
Thu 25 Sep 2008 12:00am
Here you have the latest editions of two excellent blog carnivals. Pay a visit if you are interested in meeting some great education and health bloggers.
- Carnival of Education #190, by Steve Spangler.
Enjoy!
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The Link Between Education and Health
by
Fiona G.
Posted
Thu 14 May 2009 1:03pm
I've blogged many times about the importance of health education in a successful corporate wellness program. If our own employee surveys are any indication, the vast majority... Populi blogged recently about the many factors that influence health--and level of education is one of them. Of course, education influences income, and wealthier people clearly
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HealthRanger.org - Health Through Education
by
Dr. Aniruddha M.
Posted
Tue 18 Nov 2008 12:14am
HealthRanger.org - Health Through Education: "Because our system of modern medicine thrives on sick people. Drug companies, doctors, surgeons and hospitals are all.... And that's why all the talk you hear about health care reform never mentions making people any healthier. It's only about shifting the responsibility of who pays for disease."
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The Mind of the Young Adult Male and On-Line Health Education
by
Bruce Friedman
Posted
Wed 27 Jan 2010 12:00am
Previously discussed here has been the topic of on-line public health education and the use of smartphones as efficient channels to reach the young adult... lose their taste for cartoons, and also ignore their health. We need to invest more of our public heath education resources, meager as they are, in developing channels
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More on Reaching Young Males with Public Health Education Messages
by
Bruce Friedman
Posted
Tue 02 Feb 2010 12:00am
healthy and feel immortal. So why would they worry about
health care? Maybe the serious issues of the day could be woven into a
video game or cartoon as part of the plot rather than... societies such as the College of American Pathologists (CAP) to make overtures to the executives in the video game, TV, movie industries to feature health issues in their plots
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