Public Health

How to Save America $16 Billion and Spare Millions from Disease

Jeffrey Levi | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Health, Trust for America's Health, Sen. Tom Harkin, Health Care, Chronic Disease, Obseity Epidemic, Diabetes, Healthcare, Politics News
Jeffrey Levi

How do Americans expect to compete in the global economy if our workforce isn't healthy enough to be competitive? The good news is, many of the US's most prevalent medical problems are very preventable.

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The Public Health Consequences Of Thailand's War on Drugs

Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 07.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Human Rights, The Giving Life, Prison, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Public Health, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Living News
Jennifer Winstanley

In 1997, the Thai government criminalized yaabaa in the same way as heroine. As a result, the prison population doubled within four years. There are a number of public health consequences of a policy that encourages and overuses incarceration.

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Semiquaver Rest

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Health, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS Africa, Bronx, South Africa, New York City, United Nations, Politics News
Lapham's Quarterly

With an estimated 1.2 million Americans living with HIV, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS reports that the U.S. is home to "one of the largest HIV epidemics in the world."

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Gender Apartheid

Amy Coen | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Foreign Aid, Women's Rights, Fgm, Apartheid, Foreign Assistance, Ethiopia, Violation, Prenatal, Conflict, Prevention, Africa, Aids, Racism, Female, Development, Developing Countries, Public Health, Hiv, Gender, Ngo, Contraceptives, Female Genital Mutilation, Health, Sex, Health Programs, Hospitals, Communities, Sexual Education, Condoms, Living News
Amy Coen

Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.

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Some Kill with a Six Gun, Others with a Frying Pan: We Must Take Better Care of Ourselves

Harold Pollack | Posted 06.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Public Health, Cheesesteak, Obesity, Tim Russert, Health, Living News
Harold Pollack

What's happening to our kids mostly reflects what is happening among adults. We are becoming too fat and too sedentary, with large and growing gaps along lines of race, income, and schooling.

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Does Fat By Any Other Name Still Look Bad In Lycra?

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 06.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Ninja Warrior, David Spade, Tommy Boy, Metabo, Obese, Metabolic Syndrome, Public Health, New York Times, Weight Loss, Obesity, Japan Waistlines, Chris Farley, Harajuku, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

From the country who gave us both Harajuku and Ninja Warrior, we now get a new trend. Japan has an aggressive yet motherly new public health mission of reducing the national waistline.

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Medical R&D That Works for the Developing World

Robert Weissman | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Public Health, Drugs, Medicines, Patent, R&D, Who, Business News
Robert Weissman

The world -- and especially developing countries -- needs more innovation. To have public health benefit, however, the fruits of the innovative process must be available to people who need them.

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Celebrate World Malaria Day -- Buy an African Kid a $7 Mosquito Net

Harold Pollack | Posted 04.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Public Health, Angelina Jolie, Malaria Day, Brad Pitt, Mosquito Nets, UN Foundation, World Health Organization, Living News
Harold Pollack

One of the few brights spots these days is that millions of Americans finally realize the importance of global health.

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IMF: The Times They Are A-Changin'

Robert Weissman | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Public Health, International Monetary Fund, Dominque Strauss-Kahn, Imf, Structural Adjustment, Gold Sales, Barney Frank, Business News
Robert Weissman

Have things changed at the International Monetary Fund? Or is the world just witnessing yet another in a long series of global economic double standar...

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World Health Day: The Hazards of Global Warming to Your Health

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 04.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Gobal Warming Health, Global Warming's Effect on Health, World Health Day, Infectious Diseases, Health, Greenhouse Gases, Water, Public Health, Environment, Environmentalism, Mosquitoes, Global Warming, Global Temperature, Living News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

Human health, influenced by a complex system of biological, social, economic, political and geographic factors, is particularly vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

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CDC Under Siege

Deirdre Imus | Posted 04.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Cdc, Andrew Speaker Tuberculosis, Public Health, Tb, Andrew Speaker, David Kirby, Hannah Poling Autism, Hannah Poling, Tuberculosis, Autism Vaccine Mercury, Gerberding, Health, CDC Cancer, Autism, Centers for Disease Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Autism Vaccines, Andrew Speaker Tb, Living News
Deirdre Imus

Hardly a month passes without another news report questioning the credibility, scientific independence, and integrity of the nation's premier health agency.

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Pervasive Stigma Surrounds Women Living with HIV/AIDS

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 04.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Women With HIV, HIV/AIDS, Stds, Women With AIDS, United State HIV/AIDS, Women's Health, Disease, Female Condom, Safe Sex, Public Health, HIV/AIDS Stigma, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Amfar, Living News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

Women with HIV/AIDS may suffer greater stigma than men -- they may be blamed as carriers, either as prostitutes infecting men or mothers infecting their infants.

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About those crowded emergency rooms....

Harold Pollack | Posted 02.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Emergency Care, Obama, Health Reform, Uninsured, Public Health, Home News
Harold Pollack

Three days ago, I posted a letter signed by many health and social policy experts concerning individual mandates. I happily signed because the mandate...

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"Universal Coverage and the Presidential Candidates' Health Care Proposals"

Harold Pollack | Posted 01.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Public Health, Individual Mandate, Health Reform, Obama, Uninsured, Clinton, Home News
Harold Pollack

I and more than 80 other physicians, public health and medical practitioners, and social policy experts have signed the below letter. It notes the imp...

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The State of Children's Health: End of the Year Report Card

Deirdre Imus | Posted 12.10.2007 | Living

Read More: Deirdre Imus, Imus, Developmental Disorders, World Health Organization, Chronic Diseases in Children, Public Health, Childrens Health, Environmental Chemicals, Toxins, Living News
Deirdre Imus

The next generation of children cannot wait another decade for scientific certainty to prove the effects of unsafe, hazardous chemicals before we start fighting for laws and policies that will protect children.

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Antidepressants Vindicated?

Gregg Easterbrook | Posted 09.07.2007 | Living

Read More: Public Health, CDC, Antidepressants, Antidepressants and Sucide, Living News
Gregg Easterbrook

Antidepressant use is declining and youth suicide is rising -- should the linkage between these events be viewed as some huge surprise, as the media now imply in the wake of yesterday's CDC report?

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