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Healthy eating, healthy behavior, healthy children
Childhood obesity affects one in six American children. Penn State’s Center for Childhood Obesity Research partners with Head Start programs to help children learn to regulate their eating behavior.
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Healthy eating, healthy behavior, healthy children
Childhood obesity affects one in six American children. Penn State’s Center for Childhood Obesity Research partners with Head Start programs to help children learn to regulate their eating behavior.
Supporting Rural Hospitals
The Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health (PORH) helps to ensure that residents in rural communities have access to high-quality, affordable health care. A PORH collaboration with Penn Highlands Tyrone supported the hospital as it made improvements that benefited its patients and local community.
Supporting Hearing and Speech Development and Recovery
The Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic serves a broad range of people with communication concerns, including screenings and therapy for children, support for people with Parkinson's disease and aphasia due to stroke or other health problems, and therapy for people whose voice is changing due to aging.
Bridging the gap to end systemic homelessness in the U.S.
Students enrolled in Kines 497 traveled to Los Angeles, California, to shadow the University of Southern California Street Medicine program providing health care to unhoused individuals.
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