Patient Education
Family Health Radio
Family Health is produced at the WOUB Center for Public Media with support from the Osteopathic community. Now in its 30th season, the series reaches 11 million listeners on more than 250 domestic stations and an international audience in about 180 nations via the American Forces Network Radio.
The program's format remains simple and effective- daily segments of two and a half minutes, with practical, easy-to-understand answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about health and health care. The host, Harold C. Thompson III, D.O., assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, also includes timely, practical, and consumer-orientated information about how to evaluate health information on the internet.
Family Health Radio is supported in part by the Ohio Osteopathic Association.
Featured program: The proper amount of water to consume
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Every Patient Counts
America's health care system is in crisis. In communities nationwide, citizens are losing access to quality medical care, and no one is immune. Before our health care system flatlines, we must take action to ensure that our lawmakers know Every Patient Counts.
Cancer Survivorship Resource Guide
The Ohio Osteopathic Association is a member of Partners for Cancer Control, which is a statewide coalition of organizations working to reduce the burden of cancer among Ohioans. Click here www.ooanet.org/pdf/cancersurvivorshipresource.pdf for a PDF of the coalition's Cancer Survivorship Resource Guide, listing national, state and local resources available to patients and their families. For additional information visit the coalitions website at www.ohiocancercontrol.org
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute has a new, reliable source for risk information about six common cancers, steps to reduce risk, tips for understanding cancer news stories, and tools to use with doctors to manage cancer risk. Find the site at http://www.cancer.gov/.
Risk Calculator for Death Due to Diseases and Enviormental Hazzards
Exposures to behaviors and our environment offer all sorts of risks. Use the American Council on Science and Health Riskometer to see a full spectrum of exposures that caused American deaths with the actual number of deaths attributed to each exposure for the base year 2002. You can also see the odds of dying from the 15 leading causes of death. Click here for more information http://riskometer.org/index.html.
Pain Management
The Purdue Web Site -- www.PartnersAgainstPain.com -- contains useful information for patients and caregivers in the following categories: (1) Pain Assessment/Measurement/Scales, (2) Pain Documentation/ Journals, (3) Pain Advocacy, and (4) Pain Resources.
Ohio Tobacco Quit Line
The Ohio Tobacco Quit Line is now housed at the Ohio Department of Health and continues to provide invaluable assistance to smokers who want to kick the tobacco habit. Tobacco counselors are available to help you from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Soon-to-be-former smokers can also leave a message 24 hours a day and request a call-back time that is convenient for them. Call the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line today at 1-800-QUIT-NOW (784-8669). Service is available in 150 language and TTY service is available for the deaf and hard of hearing at 1-888-229-2182.
Osteopathic Physicians Help Ohioans 'Light the Way'
The Ohio Osteopathic Association has joined a statewide educational campaign to help Ohioans exercise greater control over their medical treatment, even when unable to communicate decisions in times of crisis.
