Category: Health

Dr. Michael Blackie is a Health Humanities educator at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. His scholarly and teaching interests include health humanities, narrative medicine, death studies, and medical education. Dr. Blackie has an extensive background in Health Humanities. Before coming to UIC in 2017, he co-directed the Center for Literature and Medicine and…

According to the Center for Diseases Control (CDC), health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to “attain his or her full health potential” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.” Health Equity in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic The CDC…

Well-being, in ordinary life, is the term we use to describe the state of our health, happiness, and prosperity. A lot of our experiences, from feeling sick after catching a cold to being anxious for an upcoming exam, fall under the umbrella of well-being. In other words, well-being is a multidimensional term used to describe…