Restoring Health Through Community

The Healthy Appalachia Institute’s is working to improve the health, education, environment and prosperity for residents of central Appalachia by collaborating across communities and organizations, generating and implementing new ideas, and engaging the social, economic and scientific issues that exist at the interface of health and the Appalachian culture.

Contribute to the 2023 SWVA Health Blueprint

Sep
25
The Healthy Appalachia Institute is pleased to be leading the development of a new iteration of the SWVA Blueprint for Health Improvement and Health-Enabled Prosperity. A consortium of partners including the UVA Center for Telehealth, the Southwest Virginia Health Authority, the Health Wagon, Tri-Area Health, and Ballad Health will work together to provide strategic health services in response to the priority health challenges described in the Blueprint. You have an opportunity to tell us your priority health concerns, and what strategic plans are most likely to improve them. To learn more about this opportunity, and see a helpful graphic of some of the root causes of health problems in your community, please follow the read more link below.
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Opportunity for Healthy Appalachia Global Health Scholar

Dec
11

Healthy Appalachia Institute of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise is pleased to announce a global health opportunity in the summer of 2020. UVA Wise students of any major are invited to apply for a research trip to Rwanda or Tanzania with the University of Virginia Center for Global Health. There will be one (1) student selected who will receive a $4,000 stipend for the trip.  Applications are due Friday, January 17, and orientation with other Global Health Scholars will be held in February at UVA Charlottesville. The link to the application can be found below.

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UVA Student Explores Policy Options to Decrease Tobacco Use in Southwest Virginia

May
26

This past semester Healthy Appalachia Institute worked with UVA student (and recent graduate) Alyssa Smith from the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy (UVA) as she explored Virginia's current tobacco policies and recommended evidence based policy options to decrease adult tobacco use in Southwest Virginia.

"Virginia’s current tobacco control policies are relaxed, even when compared to other southern tobacco-growing states. This report attempts to strengthen current policies and programs using best practices from throughout the U.S. Virginia operate under the Dillon Rule, which means no locality may impose a law stronger than state law. Therefore, all tobacco control policies proposed herein will apply statewide. This report specifically analyzes (1) maintaining the status quo (2) increasing the tobacco excise tax (3) giving free cessation drugs to Medicaid and uninsured populations (4) a more comprehensive Clean Indoor Air Act (5) and an extension of the Tips From Former Smokers campaign. To evaluate each option I used the following criteria: cost-effectiveness, efficacy, equity, financial capability, and political feasibility."

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