September 8, 2024
By Dennis Archambault It isn’t too much of a stretch to call chronic school absenteeism a public health problem. When you look at the root causes — the social...
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June 27, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Sally C. Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, criticized the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s regulation that beneficiaries should not wait more than...
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March 25, 2024
Food is a healer, and it builds resilience. Both of these qualities are absent in populations who live with food insecurity and the malnutrition that comes from consumption of...
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February 28, 2024
Food heals. It comforts. It sustains. But good food is not found where many people who need it the most live. At a recent healthy food preparation demonstration at...
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February 26, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Credit Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities in Traverse City for fostering the vision and advocacy to create a healthier environment based in the preservation and distribution...
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February 26, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Healthy students learn better. Conversely, unhealthy students struggle to learn. Keeping kids healthy results in improved academic performance, through improved mental acuity, increased immunization rates, and...
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January 11, 2024
By Rep. Julie Rogers, D-Kalamazoo – Chair, House Health Policy Committee (guest commentator) Over the past 13 years, the people of Michigan have benefited from the Affordable Care Act...
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November 14, 2023
By Dennis Archambault November is a time for gratitude. Traditionally, it is the harvest season, but it’s also a time to be thankful for what we have and the...
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April 12, 2022
Michigan’s opioid dependence and substance use disorder crisis continues to be a major health issue, which may have been overlooked during efforts to address the coronavirus pandemic. HB 5968...
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April 4, 2022
By Dennis Archambault The Detroit News endorsement of a proposal by the School-Community Health Alliance of Michigan to increase Gov. Whitmer’s budget for schools to $25 million will help...
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