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Tools and Resources for Making the World a Healthier Place

The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change. It offers thousands of pages of tips and tools for taking action in communities. Want to learn about community assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, advocacy, and other aspects of community practice? Then help yourself to over 300 educational modules and other free tools.

Under continuous development since 1994, the Community Tool Box is widely used in teaching, training, and technical support. Currently available in English, Spanish, Arabic, and Farsi, and with millions of user sessions annually, it has reached those working in over 230 countries around the world.

 

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CDC Healthy Communities Free Resources

 Working at the community level promotes healthy living, helps prevent chronic diseases and brings the greatest health benefits to the greatest number of people in need. It also helps to reduce health gaps caused by differences in race and ethnicity, location, social status, income, and other factors that can affect health. Community Health: Lasting Solutions for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) funds programs that help communities promote healthy behaviors where Americans live, learn, work, and play. The goal is to make lasting changes that reduce the major risk factors for chronic disease—tobacco use, lack of physical activity, and unhealthy eating.

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University of Denver Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Denver is a membership program designed for men and women age 50 and over, who wish to pursue lifelong learning in a relaxed non-competitive atmosphere.  There are no tests, no grades, no academic requirements – just a desire for learning and a penchant to be curious.Thanks to the generosity of The Bernard Osher Foundation, OLLI at the University of Denver joins a network of 122 Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes across the United States that are meeting the needs of older learners who want to learn simply for the joy of learning and personal fulfillment..

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The Living Younger Longer Institute

The Living Younger Longer Institute is an autonomous research, clinical and educational institution in the Denver area. The Institute is dedicated to providing individuals, healthcare professionals and organizations with outstanding educational programs and clinical services with authentic acupuncture, tai-chi, qigong, and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

  • Community Tai Chi/Qigong classes
  • Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic
  • Community Outreach Programs

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Exercise is Medicine

The vision of Exercise is Medicine® (EIM), a global health initiative managed by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), is to make physical activity assessment and promotion a standard in clinical care, connecting health care with evidence-based physical activity resources for people everywhere and of all abilities. We would like to invite you to become part of a network of physicians, healthcare providers, community organizations and fitness professionals, who support the idea that “Exercise is Medicine.”

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University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education

 

Flexible courses and programmes for adult learners. We offer more than 1000 classes and programmes each year. All but a very few of them are designed for adults who prefer to study part-time. Students of the Department for Continuing Education come from more than 150 countries around the world. Many of our international students are studying on our online short courses; some are on postgraduate courses, particularly our Master’s and DPhil programmes, many of which are arranged for students who live at a distance from Oxford.

 

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Harvard Medical School’s, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine 

is a collaboration between Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. It is focused on enhancing human health, resilience and quality of life through translational research, clinical practice and education in integrative medicine. We believe that by increasing our fundamental scientific understanding of human health, we are moving toward a new model of wellness and healing.

 

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