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Public Health Achievements in the 21st Century

WebNow, CDC has put together a list of ten great public health achievements from 2001 to 2010, based on nominations from the agency’s public health scientists. …

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Public health classic: Surgeon General's 1964 Report on Smoking …

WebOn Saturday, January 11, 1964, the landmark “Smoking and Health: a report of the advisory committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Services” was …

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What "causes" disease

WebSpecificity. Hill admits this is a weaker criterion, since diseases may have many causes and etiologies. Nevertheless, the specificity of the association, meaning …

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Public Health’s Role in the Current Ideological Moment

Webby Jonathan Heller. The determinant of health that likely has the greatest impact on public health and health equity may be something most public health …

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“Occupational health literacy”: a concept deserving attention in …

WebI first read the phrase “occupational health literacy” in a study by Kim Rauscher and Doug Myers. The West Virginia University epidemiologists modifed HHS’s …

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Public health in an era of Big Tech: A call for a "Health in All

Webby Cheryl Holzmeyer. As contending visions of social transformation — or stasis — emerge from the current juncture of the Covid-19 pandemic, one indicator of the …

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More evidence that indoor smoking bans and smart public health …

WebBecause there can never be enough research to illustrate the positive impact of public health policy on people's health, here's another one. This one found that …

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New York City's restaurant letter-grading system improved food …

WebIn 2010, New York City health officials launched a new food safety tactic that assigned restaurants an inspection-based letter grade and required that the grade be …

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Public Health 101: Ten Great Achievements

WebTen Great Public Health Achievements in the 20th Century. 1. Immunizations. At the start of the 20th century, people used to die routinely from infectious diseases like …

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A minimum wage increase leads to reductions in illness-related …

WebTheir inquires—each following logically to the next—yielded consistent results. Among them, a $1 increase in the minimum wage resulted in a 32 percent …

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Inequality, stress, and health: The Whitehall Studies

WebWhitehall I began in 1967, at a time when awareness of the relationship between social inequality, work stress, and poor health was not necessarily keen. The …

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The Year in U.S. Occupational Health Safety

Web1 It’s Been a Busy Year We are pleased to present the 8th edition of The Year in U.S. Occupational Health & Safety (OHS Yearbook 2019).In 2012 when we published the first …

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Occupational Health News Roundup

WebAt The New York Times, Benjamin Mueller writes about the death and funeral of Chief Ronald R. Spadafora, 63, who was in charge of worker safety during post-9/11 …

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Community organizer turned CDC epidemiologist, Frank Bove, ScD …

WebATSDR scientist Frank Bove, ScD’s past experience with the first—an organizer from 1975 to 1982–makes him especially effective at the second. Last month, …

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Safety Harnesses and the Benefits of Regulation

WebIn the new executive order, which Rena Steinzor wrote about yesterday, President Obama stated that agencies must “propose or adopt a regulation only upon a …

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The importance of improving mental health research in …

WebBy Sara Gorman. In response to the realization that between 16% and 49% of people in the world have psychiatric and neurological disorders and that most of these …

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Art as public health communication during COVID-19

Webby Steven Lacey, PhD The challenge of public health has always been to reach members of our community where they are, rather than where we hope they are. Part

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Atul Gawande: Great surgeon, not so great on cancer clusters

WebAtul Gawande: Great surgeon, not so great on cancer clusters. by Dick Clapp. Atul Gawande is well-known around Boston because of his skills as a surgeon, …

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How do we perceive risk

WebSlovic emphasizes the essential way in which experts’ and laypeople’s views of risk differ. Experts judge risk in terms of quantitative assessments of morbidity and …

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Not an "accident": Jesus Mendizabal, 43, suffers fatal work-related

WebJesus Velazquez Mendizabal, 43, suffered fatal traumatic injuries on Friday, November 28, while working for Formica Construction in Travis, NY located on Staten …

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