Our department's mission is to educate students and residents in family
medicine with an emphasis on meeting the needs of the economically disadvantaged
and the medically underserved; to advance knowledge in family and community
medicine; and develop methods of primary care that are effective, efficient,
and accessible to all people.
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| Using Social Marketing to Increase Awareness of the African American Infant Mortality Disparity, written by Jennifer Rienks and Geraldine Oliva, has been published in Health Promotion Practice. The article describes findings from an evaluation conducted by the Family Health Outcomes Project at UCSF to assess if San Francisco Public Health Department’s social marketing campaign increased awareness of the city’s African American infant mortality disparity among African Americans living in four San Francisco neighborhoods. The full article is available here >> |
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| Article on obesity by Christina Palmer, FCM second year resident, published in the Huffington Post. Read more >> |
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| Diana Coffa, one of our faculty members based at SFGH, had an article published the San Francisco Chronicle. It is an informative and pragmatically wise guide to healthful eating and well worth reading. Read more here >> |
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| The Politics of Addiction. Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England Since the 1960s. A book by FCM staff member Sarah Mars PhD, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. This historical study examines battles over the treatment of drug addiction by private and publicly funded doctors and government. The book considers how drug treatment policy has been made including the role of evidence and patients and how contrasting structures of professional medical organizations influenced the outcome of these bitter conflicts. Read more here >> |
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