When Crafting Public Health Policy, the Perfect Shouldn’t Be the Enemy of the Good
We live in a non-ideal world and public health interventions must be designed and implemented with such imperfections in mind.
Daniel Goldberg
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Read more: The Pandemic Policy Excuse of ‘Meeting People Where They Are’ The Pandemic Policy Excuse of ‘Meeting People Where They Are’
Even where interventions are unpopular, the pursuit of a just world cannot be reduced to a popularity contest.
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Read more: The Consequences of Public Health Law Vacuums The Consequences of Public Health Law Vacuums
Even the best pandemic planning cannot account for elected representatives refusing to govern in the name of public health.
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Read more: The Problem with Individual-Level Interventions to Curb the COVID-19 Pandemic The Problem with Individual-Level Interventions to Curb the COVID-19 Pandemic
The failure to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States rests, in part, on the individualist nature of our public health responses.
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Read more: NIMBYism continues to factor into supervised injection site policies NIMBYism continues to factor into supervised injection site policies
As a major tool in harm reduction policy connected to opioid and substance misuse, more than 30 states have implemented syringe exchange programs, or SEPs. Surmounting or, in many cases, bypassing the considerable legal and political obstacles has proved a challenge for states, whether they succeeded in enacting SEPs or not. While, given the opioid…
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Read more: Epistemic Injustice, Disability Stigma and Public Health Law Epistemic Injustice, Disability Stigma and Public Health Law
By Daniel Goldberg Public health law can integrate medical and social understandings of disability in ways that promise to reduce disability stigma and enhance epistemic justice. However, models of disability currently embedded in public health law do precisely the opposite, at least partly due to the fact that public health laws have historically assimilated medicalized…
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Read more: Concussions, the N.F.L., & the Manufacture of Doubt Concussions, the N.F.L., & the Manufacture of Doubt
{SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION ALERT} A new article of mine is out in the Journal of Legal Medicine entitled “Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, the National Football League, and the Manufacture of Doubt: An Ethical, Legal, and Historical Analysis.” I’ve written on the subject before, but in case anyone is interested, here is the Abstract of the current…
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Read more: The Oregon Health Study and the Medicalization of Health Policy The Oregon Health Study and the Medicalization of Health Policy
According to the website, the Oregon Health Study “is the first randomized controlled experiment to examine the causal effects of having some type of insurance coverage versus having no insurance at all.” The findings, released a few days ago, have unleashed a storm of commentary on what the investigators did and did not find in…
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Read more: Twitter Round-Up (3/31-4/6) Twitter Round-Up (3/31-4/6)
By Casey Thomson This week’s slightly belated round-up concerns palliative care across cultures, the threat and problems of over-prescribing, and Big Pharma’s failure to create prices with the patient in mind. Read on for more from this week’s round-up. Alex Smith (@AlexSmithMD) retweeted a piece on the lessons learned by Dr. Vvjeyanthi “V.J.” Periyakoil on…
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Read more: Twitter Round-Up (1/27-2/7) Twitter Round-Up (1/27-2/7)
By Casey Thomson Even the surprisingly resurrected Richard III (on the Twitter-sphere, anyway) appreciates bioethics concerns. Read on to find out more about Richard III’s eagerness for patient confidentiality and other updates in this week’s (extended) Twitter round-up: Stephen Latham (@StephenLatham) included a link to his blog post challenging Andrew Francis’ recent claim that penicillin…