Claire Bunn’s Recommended Reading
These are just a few of my thought-provoking favorites from the past year detailing public health, life in the South, and people working to make positive change in the region.
Claire Bunn Investigates The History of Community Health Centers
Today, CHCs are responsible for serving as the primary source of care for over 28 million patients in over 13,000 communities all across the nation. Yet these widespread facilities originated in the Mississippi Delta as an innovative solution to the health disparities plaguing the region.
Claire Bunn Explores Understanding and Responding to Community Needs with Dr. John J. Green
“There’s a lot more diversity in these places than I think people from the outside understand.”
Claire Bunn Explores Connections Between Sociology and Public Health with Dr. John J. Green
“Exploring those issues and how people have responded and what actions and strategies they’ve taken can be very illuminating, not just for the Delta, but for the country as a whole.”
Brian Shim discusses the burden of stigma in lung cancer
Screen the Lungs! By Brian Shim Smoking, Stigma, and Screening Previously on Screen the Lungs!, we have focused on several of the logistical barriers that many patients face in receiving screening and how to address them. In today’s blog, I will discuss a different side of making a decision to screen, focusing on the emotional […]
Brian Shim and Dr. Chris Lathan discuss engaging community-academic partnerships for lung cancer screening
Screen the Lungs! By Brian Shim Creating Community-Academic Partnerships to Promote Lung Cancer Screening Previously on Screen the Lungs!, we’ve discussed many patient-level strategies to improve lung cancer screening initiatives. Today, I will focus on healthcare systems, and how systems from multiple levels can work together to improve screening outcomes. Developing and running a robust lung […]
Brian Shim discusses policy approaches to improve national lung cancer screening
Screen the Lungs! By Brian Shim Advocating for Policy that Supports Lung Cancer Screening Today on Screen the Lungs!, we will brainstorm some of the policy approaches that cancer care and health equity advocates can adopt to bolster high-level federal support of lung cancer screening programs. We Need to Make Lung Cancer Screening Coverage Mandatory! […]
Brian Shim and Dr. Candice Carpenter discuss the role of trust and racism in oncology
Screen the Lungs! By Brian Shim Trust and Mistrust – the role of implicit bias and discrimination in medicine and cancer care Previously on Screen the Lungs!, we discussed the multi-level barriers to Lung Cancer Screening (LCS), as well as some of the challenges at the patient-to-provider level that can marginalize patients. One particularly pressing […]
Brian Shim discusses patient navigation in lung cancer screening
Screen the Lungs! By Brian Shim Patient Navigation – Drawing the map to better cancer care Previously on Screen the Lungs!, we discussed some of the challenges and barriers that cancer patients face in deciding whether lung cancer screening is right for them. In today’s discussion, I want to talk more about how we […]
Brian Shim discusses the decision to screen for lung cancer
Screen the Lungs! By Brian Shim Making the Decision to Screen: How can we make things easier for patients? Previously on Screen the Lungs!, we introduced some of the salient barriers that challenge lung cancer screening at the systems, provider, and patient levels. In this blog, I will discuss some of the challenges that patients […]
