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The Workup
by Connecticut Health Investigative Team
The non-profit Connecticut Health Investigative Team [C-HIT] is dedicated to producing original, responsible, in-depth journalism on issues of health and safety, in Connecticut and the surrounding region.
Episodes
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Coping With Pandemic: Manage Your Fear
Fear of becoming infected with COVID-19 is reasonable – especially now with plans announced to start reopening Connecticut. There are things you can do to take precautions. C-HIT’s Colleen Shaddox talks with Rajita Sinha, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study...
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Coping With Pandemic: Guilt
Putting a loved one in a nursing home is fraught with emotions and a common one is guilt. People are feeling a resurgence of that guilt now that their loved one is at higher risk. Dr. Kirsten Wilkins, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, talks with Colleen Shaddox...
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Coping With Pandemic: Parents Just Don’t Understand
Adolescents want and need to be with peers, so the isolation imposed by the pandemic is especially hard for them. Dr. Megan V. Smith, associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine, talks about how parents can support and…
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Coping With Pandemic: Who’s Zoomin' Who
COVID-19 has many parents trying to do their jobs from home, supervise their children’s education and provide 24-7 care. Dr. Megan V. Smith, associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine, discusses ways to keep parents from...
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Coping With Pandemic: Are You Lonesome Tonight
It’s important to practice physical distancing – but not social distancing. People need connection and belonging. Dr. Megan V. Smith, associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine, discusses ways to battle loneliness.
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The WorkUp: Lost Lives - Janet Rice
This is Lost Lives, a new series of podcasts presented by the Connecticut Health I-Team's The Workup. Lost Lives examines the starkest health disparity – life expectancy. People living in poverty in the United States die younger than Americans with more wealth. In each episode, we’re going to...
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The WorkUp: Lost Lives - Gail Williams
This is Lost Lives, a new series of podcasts presented by the Connecticut Health I-Team's The Workup. Lost Lives examines the starkest health disparity – life expectancy. People living in poverty in the United States die younger than Americans with more wealth. In each episode, we’re going to...
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C-HIT The WorkUp: Medical Homes
Medical homes are producing better patient outcomes by a variety of measures. Patients seen in this environment get more primary and preventive care and are less likely to end up in the emergency room.
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C-HIT The WorkUp: SNAP
Wanda Perez is grocery shopping at the New Haven Stop & Shop. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of the regular prices of the items she buys, and nothing goes in the cart without Wanda weighing the price and the healthiness of that particular food. She needs to make her SNAP benefits last – and…
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C-HIT The WorkUp: Mental Health and Smoking
Smoking is common among people with mental illness – they buy about 40 percent of the cigarettes sold in the US. Quitting can be harder for people with a mental health diagnosis – and they can have trouble finding the help they need to kick the habit.
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The Workup: Public Charge
Some people rely on Medicaid to access health care. Or they use other federal benefits, like food stamps and housing assistance, to build the foundations of a healthy life. A proposed change to federal regulations, though, is making some immigrants wary of accessing these services. The Workup is…
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The WorkUp: Women and Depression Part 2
Women are about twice as likely to suffer from depression as men. Poor and minority women are less likely to get help than affluent or white women. They may face financial barriers, cultural stigma, fear of losing custody of their children, fear of deportation or other hurdles. So mental health...
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The Workup: Women and Depression Part 1
Connecticut author Luanne Rice has had depression, probably going back to her days in elementary school. But now she is managing her illness with a combination of therapy, medication and self-care that includes a lot of time spent in nature. Women are about twice as likely to suffer from…
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C-HIT: The Workup - Women and Depression, Part One
This is part one of The Workup’s series on women and depression. Stress can be a pathway to depression for both sexes but is a more potent pathway for women than it is for men. They are twice as likely to suffer from depression as men are and it is the leading cause of disability worldwide.
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The WorkUp: Basic Needs-Informed Care Curriculum
One in five American children is growing up in poverty. That determines what they eat, where or if they exercise and even whether or not a parent can call 911 in an emergency. Yet most health care providers do not receive in-depth education about how poverty affects children's health. Joanne...
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C-HIT The WorkUp: Patient Visits
Research shows that patients enjoy better health when they have good communication with their doctors. Here are some simple tips to get the most out of your visit.
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The Work-Up: Medication-Assisted Therapy
MAT combines traditional counseling or psychotherapy with drugs that can help ease withdrawal and reduce cravings. Studies show relapse rates are lower when medication is used in addiction treatment. That is a huge and potentially life saving benefit.
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C-HIT The WorkUp: Eldercare
More than 34 million Americans provide unpaid care to an older adult every year, according to AARP. Managing an aging parent’s health care can be complicated, logistically and emotionally. Experts say that talking about eldercare years before it’s needed is key to making the task easier. Colleen...
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C-HIT The Workup: Women and Addiction
Stephanie Almada wanted relief from premenstrual syndrome. Her doctor sent her home with a powerful prescription pain reliever. For Almada, as for many other women in Connecticut and nationwide, that prescription was an avoidable step on what became a challenging journey through opioid addiction....
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CHIT Workup: Marijuana Addiction
Connecticut has already legalized medical marijuana, and there are several bills working through the legislature to legalize it for recreational use. In eight states, including Massachusetts, recreational pot is already legal. Addiction experts say that it’s important for consumers to understand...
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C-HIT The WorkUp: Childhood Obesity
Nearly 20 percent of Connecticut children live in homes that are food insecure, according to a study by the Connecticut Food Bank and Feeding America. Those children are at higher risk of obesity than their peers. That’s because their families rely on cheap but unhealthy food to fill their…
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CHIT The Workup: Tick Bites
Summer in Connecticut – and you feel like you’re surrounded by bugs. Because you are. But don’t blame the mild winter for the influx of disease carrying ticks in your backyard. They love it here pretty much every year.
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C-HIT: The Workup - Lead Poisoning
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan has thrown a spotlight on lead poisoning, a problem that many people thought had gone away. But lead poisoning is very much with us in Connecticut. The state’s most recent data shows that 2,275 children under age 6 had lead poisoning in 2013. Dr. Hilda Slivka...
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C-HIT The Workup: LGBT Youth
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth are at much higher risk than their peers for all the behaviors that he describes. While LGBT youth may be especially in need of good medical care, it can be hard to find. National surveys report high rates of LGBT people being turned away or treated...
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C-HIT The Workup Podcast: Kids and Migraines
This is The Workup, an occasional series of podcasts exploring health issues that concern you. Today we’re talking about kids, migraines and difficulty they sometimes have getting taken seriously.
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The Workup currently has 25 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is The Workup about?
The non-profit Connecticut Health Investigative Team [C-HIT] is dedicated to producing original, responsible, in-depth journalism on issues of health and safety, in Connecticut and the surrounding region.
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