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Healthy lifestyles: The antecedents The Health Culture

Although the desire to maintain health and recover from illness is certainly nothing new historically, there was something distinctly different about the promotion of healthy lifestyles … See more

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WebThe quality of health care depends on many things, but certainly medical education is uniquely significant. Following four years of medical school, the additional …

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What is healthism

WebIn 1980 Robert Crawford defined healthism as “the preoccupation with personal health as a primary – often the primary – focus for the definition and …

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What is healthism

WebPosted by Jan on February 20, 2012 @ 3:20 pm. In part one of this post I explained the most common meaning of healthism (an excessive preoccupation with healthy lifestyles …

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The tyranny of health then and now The Health Culture

WebWhen we hear the words “tyranny of health” these days, it’s usually a reference to the tyranny of a government imposing unwanted health care on its citizens. …

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US healthcare: Atul Gawande has some good news

WebThe good news for doctors. Gawande credits the Affordable Care Act for the change he observed in McAllen. In particular, he cites its provision for accountable-care …

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On healthism, the social determinants of health, conformity

Web2 Responses to On healthism, the social determinants of health, conformity, & embracing the abnormal: (1) Bodies, minds & medicine

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Academic medical centers: Education or profits

WebThe National Institute of Health directed large sums of money into research at academic medical centers. The creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 accelerated …

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On healthism, the social determinants of health, conformity

WebContinued from part one, where I discussed the first three of my six interests: healthism, medicalization, and psychological and physical conformity.Click on the …

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A culture of health needs a market for health The Health …

WebThis feels encouraging: Two Viewpoint articles in a recent issue of JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) on improving population health (both …

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On healthism, the social determinants of health, conformity

WebSharon, Wow, I am honored by your response. Thank you so much. I am passionate about inequality, the social determinants of health, and the role of …

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Health care inequality: The US vs. Europe The Health Culture

WebSources: Robert Walgate, European health systems face scrutiny in US debate, The Lancet, Vol. 374 No. 9600 p. 1407-1408, October 24, 2009 Mark R. Rank, …

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Why is it so hard to reduce US health care costs

WebWe know that some physicians and health care providers manage to operate at less than 20% of the average cost of care, without sacrificing quality. If …

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Why the US doesn’t have universal health care

WebThe US government fails to use its bargaining power. One way other countries control costs is by using their leverage as the (almost) exclusive buyer of …

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Edward Kennedy: Healthcare is a fundamental right, not a privilege

WebThe cause of Kennedy’s life was not, after all, praise or compliments. It was, as he said, to “guarantee that every American…will have decent, quality health care as a …

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Evidence of successful aging The Health Culture

WebA personals ad from a recent New York Review of Books:. WOMAN, 79 (LOOKS 78), Upper West Side pseudo-intellectual, Europe 4 years, wants man’s …

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Where does the health care money go

WebWell, some of it goes to pay executives at health insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Here are some income figures for top executives at leading …

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The tyranny of health The Health Culture

WebThroughout history people have been concerned about threats to their health. Bubonic plague killed 200 million people. The death rate for women who gave …

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Tag: Tony Judt The Health Culture

WebBack in the early days of the Great Recession, the LA Times ran a story called Can a troubled economy actually improve public health? [S]trange as it may seem, bad …

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Tony Judt and the Move for ALS bike ride The Health Culture

WebSaul Goldberg and Tony Judt Saul Goldberg, a student of Tony Judt, will be cycling across the country this month to raise money for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and …

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Tony Judt lives on The Health Culture

WebI miss Tony Judt. As I read the news every day, I speculate on what he would have to say. I was thinking of him during the mid-term elections as I listened to blatant …

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The misuse of health statistics by politicians

WebComparing apples to oranges. More importantly, comparing five-year survival rates for the US and England is fundamentally misleading. Prostate cancer is …

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