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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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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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Public Health Classics: Assessing air pollution and health in six U.S

WebIn the 1974, most of us thought that air pollution was something that just looked and smelled bad. But public health researchers had just launched a study to …

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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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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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Study: Higher minimum wages tied to better infant health and …

WebA couple months ago, we reported on a study that found raising the minimum wage to $15 could have prevented thousands of premature deaths in New York City …

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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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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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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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“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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The air we breathe: WHO says air pollution is carcinogenic and …

WebOn October 17, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that it has classified air pollution as a human …

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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 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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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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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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"Code Silver": Beware of violent hospital patients, visitors

WebA physician from the Houston area taught me a new phrase: “Code Silver.” Dr. Stella Fitzgibbons had an op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman yesterday about …

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"Decide to be safe" is not an answer to workplace hazards

WebInjury Control & Violence “Decide to be safe” is not an answer to workplace hazards. “Decide to be safe” is not an answer to workplace hazards. June 19, 2014 …

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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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Mixing teens and mechanical lifts in nursing homes: not safe for

WebHart Research Associates asked 1,004 adults about a Trump administration proposal that would reverse long-standing safety protections for 16- and 17-year old …

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