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    Physical Health

    Maintaining good physical health can improve the wellbeing and cognitive function of young adults. Having a balanced diet, adequate sleep, and physical exercise can promote healthy nutrition, daily functioning, and an improvement in performance. Common physical health issues for young adults, ages 15 to 24, include unhealthy eating, inadequate sleep, and a higher risk of sexually transmitted diseases.

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    Young adults often sacrifice or neglect healthy practices when arriving at college, and by doing so, can compromise their immune systems and lead to decreased mental health.

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    Mental and Behavioral Health, College Affordability

    Physician, Heal Thyself: The increasing levels of stress in medical school

    Like drinking from a fire hose. That’s the longstanding analogy used to describe the deluge of information aimed at medical school students studying to become doctors. Medical school has long been synonymous with anxiety and achievement, intense training, and acute pressure. Certainly, graduate work by nature involves hard work and…

    MCQ. Issue 26
    07/18/2022
    Opinion | Physical Health

    Reflections on health and wellbeing from a first-year college student

    When students first go off to college, they bring with them what they’re most interested in. For me, it was participation in many sports and a keen interest in physical health and mental wellbeing.  My name is Owen Chicos, and I’m a rising sophomore at Wake Forest University. I’d like…

    MCQ. Issue 26
    07/18/2022
    Mental and Behavioral Health, Student Success

    Ep. 37: Collaboration and Infrastructure in Campus Health Promotion Strategy

    Paula Swinford, MS, MHA, CHES, is the director of the Office for Health Promotion Strategy and a clinical instructor for family medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Swinford talks about what it takes to create a health-promoting campus – from assessing student needs to establishing…

    Quadcast Episode 37
    04/27/2022
    Sponsored | Mental and Behavioral Health

    FRONTLINES: Interview with Jake Baggott

    There is not one defined set of experiences which provides the path to leadership in higher education. Jake Baggott’s trajectory, extending from his time as a student employee in the health center at Southern Illinois University to his current position as Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Health and Wellbeing and…

    MCQ. Issue 25
    04/25/2022
    Sponsored | Mental and Behavioral Health

    Frontlines: Interview with Dr. James R. Jacobs

    Frontlines: Interview with James R. Jacobs, MD, PhD, Executive Director of Vaden Health Center; Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs, Stanford University If you are in the field of college health, you have likely heard of Dr. Jim Jacobs. The talented, easy-going physician from Stanford has been at the helm…

    MCQ. Issue 24
    01/24/2022
    Sponsored | Physical Health

    FRONTLINES: Interview with Dr. Sarah Van Orman

    What does it take to make college health the “voice of public health” for the college community?  What enables it to prepare for and respond to the health challenges of the 21st century? And how has all this been challenged and advanced by COVID-19?  These are some of the questions…

    MCQ. Issue 23
    10/20/2021
    Substance Use

    Innovations in Behavioral Health Care

    Maximizing the Effectiveness of Virtual Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA The negative consequences associated with high-risk drinking, including academic impairment, social harms, injury, and death (White & Hingson, 2013) are perennial concerns. Nearly one-third…

    MCQ. Issue 22
    07/14/2021
    Mental and Behavioral Health

    Patterns During the Pandemic: How Eating Disorders Have Affected College Students During COVID-19

    When the pandemic struck midway through the second semester of her sophomore year at college, 19-year-old Jane flew thousands of miles home to California and found herself almost entirely without the activities or responsibilities that she’d devoted herself to before. “I went home, and all of a sudden, I had…

    MCQ. Issue 22
    07/14/2021
    Mental and Behavioral Health

    Ep. 15: President Connie Book, Elon Universit‪y‬

    Connie Book, PhD., ME, talks about the disruption of the last year and how Elon continues to address the health and wellbeing of students and staff at the North Carolina university.

    Quadcast Episode 15
    03/17/2021

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    Physical Health

    Inside Higher Ed reports that, as Senate Republicans rush to confirm a conservative justice to the Supreme Court who many believe will nudge it toward invalidating the Affordable Care Act, concerns are rising about the potential that millions of college students would be left without health insurance. “It’s almost unimaginable, the…

    MCFeed
    9/30 – 10/7

    Physical Health

    A new filing in a lawsuit alleges that Indiana University at Bloomington pressured its health center to deemphasize the likelihood that student illnesses had been caused by dorm-room mold. The university denies the allegation. Colleges in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Maryland and elsewhere have also been experiencing what appears to be mold-related illnesses…

    MCFeed
    6/5 – 6/11

    Physical Health and Wellness

    The Panhellenic Council at the University of Pennsylvania will now require all sororities to have a wellness point person in each organization. The wellness point people will be trained to follow the Panhellenic Council wellness curriculum which will require each person to conduct various workshops and activities each month in areas of…

    MCFeed
    3/6 – 3/12
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