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It has been widely shown that people under chronic stress are more likely to experience poor physical and mental health, including depression, anxiety and suicide, as well as substance abuse.
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<p><em>With nearly a decade of experience as a family nurse practitioner, Clinical Assistant Professor Michelle Zappas offers students an inside look into what it’s like to practice in the real world.</em></p>
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Over 100 attendees from the United States and Latin America—including elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine—came to USC to participate in what is considered the premier social research conference on Latino health and aging.
At the 2017 International Conference on Aging in the Americas (ICAA), which was hosted by the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, scholars discussed how the social and built environment affects the health and mental health of aging Latinos.
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Timely screenings are the best way to identify breast cancer before symptoms emerge. For health care providers, this means staying up to date with the latest screening recommendations. However, social workers can also play a significant role by connecting vulnerable populations to essential — and low-cost — resources.
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Every year, hundreds of bills go through the California Legislature that deal with veterans or military issues, including most recently to establish residency for in-state tuition, identify veteran status in coroner’s reports, and increase funding for veteran resource centers on college campuses.
But Sen. Josh Newman, who chairs the state’s committee on veterans affairs, said it’s not enough.
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When the Emergency Child Care Bridge goes into effect in January 2018, foster families in California will be receiving much-needed new financial assistance -- and USC social work faculty research played a part in getting that done.
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1989. The Exxon Valdez oil tanker strikes a reef in Prince William Sound, releasing 11 million gallons of crude oil into the environment. A storm blows in soon after, spreading the oil over more than 1,000 miles of coastline.
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USC’s Eric Rice remembers heading to the Venice boardwalk to find Jacob Buhl.
Rice was going to ask Buhl, who is 25 and homeless, if he wanted to help him with his research, educating other homeless youth about HIV. It was for a pilot study he was doing on HIV education in Los Angeles. Homeless youth would be trained as educators and get the word out to their friends.
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Consumers can now interact with artificially intelligent machines in their homes through Google Home and Amazon Echo, which serve as personal assistants that answer questions, tell jokes and play music, but there is a potential for deeper human-machine connections.
A USC project funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation is exploring how robots can provide companionship and support intergenerational interactions between older adults and other family members in the same house.
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The USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAIS)—a joint venture of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and USC Viterbi School of Engineering—will host its first Visiting Fellows Program this summer focused on employing AI to help solve complex societal problems.