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New Strategic Prospectus Planned
NIH Celebrates First 10 Years of OBSSR |
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OBSSR’s Dr. David Abrams |
In a celebration of its research, action and
partnerships, the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
on June 21-22 marked its first 10 years with a call for a new perspective
on science.
Every health innovation that improves societal health and well-being
ultimately requires some form of behavior change, "a daunting challenge
and a great responsibility," said OBSSR director Dr. David Abrams.
The behavioral and social sciences face "the grandest challenge
of them all — understanding human behavior in all its complexity" — from
genes, neuroscience, motivation, cognition and emotion to individual
lifestyles to the collective "behavior" of families, communities,
providers and health care delivery systems to global economics
and policy.
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Move It or Fuse It
Ergonomics Lectures Can Help NIH'ers |
| By Belle Waring |
Consider the spine: it bears our weight, keeps
us stable and lets us move in myriad ways. Thanks to this column
of soft tissue and bone, we can walk, lift a child, somersault
and sit.
And boy, do we sit. Many of us work at a desk or bench, where our
backs hardly move — unless slumping counts — while we make countless
peripheral motions like pipetting, typing and using a mouse. Job-associated
travel also requires sitting, often in cramped quarters.
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