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Fellowship in South Korea offers language benefits, cultural reconnection
Penn undergrad Claire Jun gestures to the sign on the front of the building in Seoul, South Korea where she interned this summer.

Claire Jun poses in front of the building where she did a health policy internship in Seoul, South Korea, at the Research Institute at the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.

(Image: Courtesy of Claire Jun)

Fellowship in South Korea offers language benefits, cultural reconnection

Third-year student Claire Jun used her FLAS fellowship this summer to participate in the study abroad program at Yonsei University and a health-policy internship at the National Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.

Kristen de Groot

The nursing burnout crisis is also happening in primary care
Exhausted nurse resting their head.

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The nursing burnout crisis is also happening in primary care

A study co-authored by Penn Nursing’s Jacqueline Nikpour and J. Margo Brooks Carthon finds nurses in primary care face burnout and poor work environments, especially in low-income clinics.

From Penn LDI

Health capabilities, explained
A busy street in Taipei, Taiwan, with people driving, biking, and walking

Health capabilities are a reflection of both individual and societal circumstances, says Jennifer J. Prah. 

(Image: Huy Phan for Pexels)

Health capabilities, explained

Jennifer J. Prah of the School of Social Policy & Practice has developed a method for assessing the individual and collective ability to be healthy.

Kristina García

Health care has an ‘LMNO’ problem

Health care has an ‘LMNO’ problem

In an Op-Ed, David A. Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School and Roy Rosin of Penn Medicine says that contractions of language and behavior reinforce each other throughout medicine, resulting in needless tests and avoidable costs.