E5: Minisode! Year of Healthy Communities Wrap-Up, The Good Life, Northern Arizona University, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, Obamacare Results

Welcome back to - and happy holidays from - the Vitalyst Spark podcast. We’re back with another Minisode: where we make the most of your time by packing five items of news you can really use into about 15 minutes - plus a little holiday cheer this time around. Here are the links you need to follow along and follow up.

01:10 - The 2017 Year of Healthy Communities Wrap-Up

• The Live Well Arizona website: http://livewellaz.org
• Webinar playbacks: http://livewellaz.org/webinars/
• January 16 webinar registration: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/kj0h76ls9zgz&eom

04:36 - Where to Find the Good Life

• National Geographic summary: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/11/where-to-find-the-good-life/
• Gallup-Healthways State Well-Being Rankings Report: http://info.healthways.com/hubfs/Gallup-Healthways%20State%20of%20American%20Well-Being_2016%20State%20Rankings%20vFINAL.pdf

06:34 - Northern Arizona University News

• The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) grant award announcement: http://news.nau.edu/health-disparities-grant/
• NARBHA Institute James Wurgler MD Chair of Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health announcement: http://azdailysun.com/news/local/education/nau-gets-funding-for-new-professor-of-criminal-behavior/article_1fb70318-969b-5f51-9bcf-8ea8ea431db2.html
• NAU Interdisciplinary Health PhD: https://www.nau.edu/SBS/Interdisciplinary-Health-PhD-Program/

08:53 - Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust Environmental Reporting Grant

• The Grand AZ Announcement: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2017/03/24/grandaz-environmental-reporting-arizona-republic-nina-mason-pulliam-trust/99569560/
• Article: Phoenix’s Heat is Rising, and So is the Danger: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2017/10/18/deadly-heat-phoenix-getting-hotter-so-danger/694283001/
• Article: How Heat Discriminates: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2017/10/19/heres-how-heat-discriminates-what-phoenix-doing-help-those-risk/561116001/
• Article: The Heat Killed More People in 2016 Then Ever Before: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2017/10/19/human-cost-heat-those-who-paid-record-year-deaths-metro-phoenix/646194001/

11:08 - 2017 Obamacare Enrollment Results

• Compilation of open enrollment results coverage from 12/22/17 via Kaiser Health News: https://khn.org/morning-briefing/friday-december-22-2017/#breakout-800732

14:08 - Minisode Wrap Up and Announcements

• January 16 webinar registration: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/kj0h76ls9zgz&eom

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