Welcome to NextClinica – A health education and wellness resource
NextClinica helps you learn about your health. Having better health literacy increases your chances of preventing health problems and helps manage health problems better.
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What is health literacy?
The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
(HHS 2000 and Institute of Medicine 2004)
Ideas assisted with health literacy include:
- Shared decision making
- Better advocacy in health settings
- Improved communications with health care provider
What does cortisol do?
Cortisol is a steroid hormone and it is secreted by the adrenal gland. The hormone is primarily used to treat skin problems, allergies and even joint pain. It is usually…
4 Common Symptoms of Poor Adrenal Signaling (aka adrenal fatigue)
One of the most common symptoms of poor adrenal signaling (a.k.a adrenal fatigue) includes general fatigue and exhaustion – kind of obvious isn’t it? But then again, there are plenty…
How to Make Exercise a Habit?
Developing an exercise habit increases your ability to reach your desired outcome. But two of the biggest barriers towards people getting healthy is that they simply don’t know where to…
What is HBA1C?
HBA1C (sometimes also called A1c or hbA1c) is a complicated mash of alphabet soup used to describe glycated hemoglobin. That doesn’t clarify much, does it? What is HBA1C and what…
4 Benefits of Exercise for Older Adults
America’s population is aging rapidly. 40 million people are over the age of 65 in the United States today, and that number is expected to climb to 89 million in…
What is Concierge Medicine?
Concierge medicine is a growing trend in the healthcare community, a business model that gives the patient more control over their healthcare and the physician more time to deal with…