Shifting Mindsets for Better Health
Wednesdays at 12:33pm, during Here and Now
Shifting Mindsets for Better Health, a continuing education podcast produced by our partners at Central Michigan University with a grant from the Children’s Foundation. This podcast series brings together healthcare professionals across disciplines to share insight into the far-reaching effects the coronavirus pandemic has on children, caretakers and medical care providers.
Shifting Mindsets for Better Health is a collaborative production of Central Michigan University’s College of the Arts and Media, the College of Medicine, and the Interdisciplinary Center for Community Health & Wellness.
Latest Episodes
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The COVID-19 Pandemic highlighted that not everyone in Michigan has access to the same healthcare systems and services. This episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health looks at the healthcare lessons from COVID-19.
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The Pandemic changed people’s lives, but it also changed people’s job duties. In hospitals, healthcare workers are doing things that wouldn’t normally do. This episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health focuses on once such job, the child life specialists.
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Dealing with the pandemic is hard on everyone, especially children. It puts are strain on the family unit. This episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health explores the effects of the pandemic on parents and caregivers and provides to places to look for help.
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Parents and caregivers influence how children deal with emotions, stress and trauma. The pandemic causes stress for everyone that can lead to trauma-level events. Today's episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health provides some tips and resources for building resilience in children to handle stress and trauma.
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Our worlds have all been turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. We search for that new normal and how to reduce the uncertainty for tomorrow. This episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health looks at how the abrupt changes to everyday life have affected children.
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Emergency room doctors see very sick children showing up with baffling symptoms and heart conditions. We now know that these symptoms were caused by COVID-19 infections weeks prior. Today's episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health explains Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children or M-I-S-C.
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Looking back at the COVID-19 pandemic we see that the virus effects on children have been less severe than adults, but there are instances of very sick children due to COVID-19. This episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health examines the health effects of the virus on children.
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As we see yet another wave of COVID infections and hospitalizations rising once again, today's episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health looks at the effects this pandemic has on two professions: teachers and healthcare workers.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic will hopefully be the worst health crisis of the twenty-first century. The pandemic has challenged our health systems. This episode of Shifting Mindsets for Better Health looks at these public health challenges and the power of prevention.
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Viruses naturally mutate and COVID-19 is no exception. The hope is that natural immunity and vaccines will prevent further spread this virus. Today on “Shifting Mindsets for Better Health,” we examine how the COVID-19 virus mutates and how mRNA vaccine technology fights it.