PROFNET EXPERT ALERTS: Health & Living

PROFNET EXPERT ALERTS: Health & Living

    1.  Arts: Healing Through Arts and Music   2.  Behavior: Minimizing Impact of Financial Stress on Your Family   3.  Family Issues: Absent Fathers   4.  Health: Safety Management Programs   5.  Home: Saluting Naptime 'Droolers'   

1. ARTS: HEALING THROUGH ARTS AND MUSIC. WENDY STERNBERG, M.D., advocate of diplomacy through music and the arts for GENESIS AT THE CROSSROADS IN CHICAGO, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to bridge cultures in conflict through the arts, can discuss how cross-cultural artistic collaborations serve as catalysts for inter-ethnic dialogue and global understanding: "During the recession, in a rare case of someone leaving the for-profit world to the non- profit world, people can transition from a life of healing in medicine to a life on the frontlines of healing through music, culture and arts. Cross- cultural musicians can share the same state, but they can actually work together and create new art, and in doing that, they can make a statement that's really profound about how the world can be transformed through collaboration." News Contact: Jerry Schranz, jerry@avalanchepr.com Phone: +1- 201-488-0049 Web site: http://www.gatc.org/ (3/6/09)

2. BEHAVIOR: MINIMIZING THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL STRESS ON YOUR FAMILY. JULIE MOGHAL, Ph.D., pediatric psychologist, and director of psychology and social services at CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY in California, a regional healthcare network, can provide insight and information on the impact of today's financial stress concerns on families: "Helping children learn to manage their stress is essential. Children, like adults, are at risk for developing physical or emotional symptoms of stress if they don't learn to manage stress early. Children are developing key coping skills in their childhood that they will continue to use into adulthood. So, start early. It's an investment in their future, and the family can practice positive coping together, which can bring them closer together in difficult times." Moghal can also provide tactics to teach children how to be fiscally responsible. News Contact: Emily Schwartz, eschwartz@golinharris.com Phone: +1-213-438-8711 (3/6/09)

3. FAMILY ISSUES: ABSENT FATHERS. DR. BETH ERICKSON, Ph.D., speaker and author of "Longing for Dad: Father Loss and its Impact" of Edina, Minn., can discuss how a father's absence can become a blueprint for future situations, like single parenthood, and its implications: "All father-hunger springs from one main source: desertion. A father's abdication may be total, emotional or what the individual experiences as desertion. There are seven specific causes of father loss: death, divorce, single mothering, adoption, addiction, abuse and traditional fathering. A girl's relationship with her father provides a blueprint for all other relationships with men and with the outside world. Therefore, if a girl grew up as a fatherless child, she is likely to experience some measure of depression, even if it does not reach the level of clinical depression, which is debilitating. This certainly can be expected to compromise her ability to get along in the world. The other devastating consequence for fatherless daughters is that it seems all too natural for them to have children with no hope of a partner who will help them parent. Then, the scourge of fatherlessness comes down into yet another generation." Erickson can also comment on a new study about urban single mothers nearing the end of their welfare eligibility who appear more likely to have substance abuse and psychiatric disorders than women in the general population. News Contact: Jackie O'Neal, jackieoneal@helloworld.com Phone: +1-609-334-8621 Web site: http://www.drbetherickson.com/ (3/6/09)

4. HEALTH: SAFETY MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS. DOUG BONACUM, vice president of safety management for KAISER PERMANENTE in Oakland, Calif., America's leading health care provider and not-for-profit health plan, can discuss Patient Safety Week (March 8-14): "Almost every single medication error I see has both this combination of error-producing and violation-producing conditions that were present at the time and that caused a certain set of behaviors. But what gives us the greatest opportunity is that the behaviors are not occurring in a vacuum. They're occurring very much in a visible way, which leads me to the notion that these aren't really individual errors. They're more team-based errors." Bonacum is a board member of the National Patient Safety Foundation, which sponsors Patient Safety Awareness Week. He can speak about the real- world strategies and tools that can be put in place to address patient safety, as well as tactics to address this area. News Contact: Emily Schwartz, eschwartz@golinharris.com Phone: +1-213-438-8711 (3/6/09)

5. HOME: SALUTING NAPTIME 'DROOLERS.' JAMES BELL, CEO of PROTECT-A-BED in Chicago, whose company developed pillow protectors, a key tool in a comfortable and sanitary sleep environment, is honoring the naptime "drooler" on National Napping Day (March 9): "For many people, a great nap often ends with a giant puddle of drool on the pillow, but it doesn't have to end with allergens and bacteria breeding inside of it. The 'drooler' often compounds the problem by introducing extra moisture to the pillow. The warm, moist environment offers the perfect haven for allergens and bacteria to grow. That's why it's so important to keep all of that bad stuff from getting into our lungs by keeping it out of our pillow with a pillow protector." News Contact: Bridget Castellini, bcastellini@wordsworthweb.com Phone: +1-513-271- 7222, ext. 13 (3/6/09)

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PRNewswire -- March 6

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