Public Health
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America’s Baffling Opposition to the WHO’s Breastfeeding Resolution
It seems that any institution that is global or multilateral in nature or name elicits visceral opposition by huge swathes of the American public. While there has long been an undercurrent of insularity and outright hostility in America towards the rest of the world, it goes without saying that under the present administration — which… Continue reading
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Lessons from Senegal on Regulating Sex Work
When it comes to public health innovations, Senegal rarely come to mind as a role model. But as the The Economist recently reported, the country is an outlier on the continent (and indeed much of the world) in treating sex work as a public health matter. Continue reading
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Living Longer and More Prosperously
Never before have so many humans enjoyed longer and healthier lives. Across the world, even in some of the poorest countries, deaths from most infectious diseases are declining precipitously, while every region is seeing increased longevity. The data are resoundingly clear: Continue reading
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The World’s Healthiest Countries
According to the Bloomberg Global Health Index, which includes such factors as life expectancy, access to health care, and malnutrition, these are the world’s healthiest countries: The top ten nations were: Italy Iceland Switzerland Singapore Australia Spain Japan Sweden Israel Luxembourg Continue reading
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Chart: How The American Diet Has Changed Over Forty Years
Utilizing USDA data, Vox.com has produced acolorful graph that charts the vast changes in the average American’s diet since 1972. (Note that it shows the total supply of these items divided by the number of Americans, rather than exact consumption levels. However, this nonetheless gives a good sense of how eating patterns are changing over time, especially insofar… Continue reading
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The Rationality of Addiction
Drug addicts and substance abusers would hardly come to mind as rational or reasonable individuals. Yet an interesting new study discussed in the New York Times sheds light on the very complex nature of addiction, one that challenges the popular caricature of drug abusers as voracious consumers enslaved at all costs to a particular high.… Continue reading
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