Preventive Medicine & Community Health

1.   Name of activity:  Healthful Life Website Newsletter: wwww.healthfullife.umdnj.edu

2.   Project leader and email address:  Donald B. Louria, MD louriado@umdnj.edu

3.   Other involved faculty and email addresses: N/A

4.   Brief statement of mission and/or vision:

To inform the public about the tests and actions of the Healthful Life Program and the New Jersey law (the Health Wellness Promotion Act) that is based on the Healthful Life Program. Also to provide the public and the medical profession with a resource for evaluating health promotion-disease prevention articles and claims.

5.   Specifics about activity:

Biweekly newsletter that includes reviews of articles relating to health promotion-disease prevention, hot topics, editorials, and occasional essays on a variety of topics related to health promotion.

6.   Publications from project:

Louria DB. Your Healthy Body, Your Healthy Life, Master Medic, New York City, 1992.

Louria DB. New Jersey Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Initiative. Journal of Public Health Management Practice, Volume 1, Pages 28-31, 1995.

Louria DB and Johnson MS. The Health Wellness Promotion Act and Available CPT Codes, New Jersey Medicine. Volume 99 (April), Pages 20-23. 2002

Date revised: 3/30/05