January 26, 2006

What are the top health issues putting college students in jeopardy today?

Mary White, nurse practitioner, uses games to get college students to talk about health. In her first year running the Wayne State campus health clinic, she has devised programs like condom bingo (it uses packaged condoms as tokens for the otherwise standard game); hosted slumber parties where female students don\'t really spend the night but do show up in their pj\'s to ask personal questions in a non-clinical setting. "College students are at a stage of life when they develop health behaviors that will serve them the rest of their life," says Barbara Redman, dean and professor in Wayne State \'s College of Nursing .

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