Digging Deep to Find Community-Based Health Justice
Rather than simply recognizing the existence of social determinants of health, we must do the hard work to create and re-create systems.
Personal Responsibility
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Read more: There’s No Justice Without Health Justice There’s No Justice Without Health Justice
Well-being and ill-being can be measured in many ways, but health is a fundamental part of the picture and is inextricably intertwined with justice.
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Read more: Happy Public Health Week: “We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Us” Happy Public Health Week: “We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Us”
By Scott Burris We may be living in a golden age of group-think. A weekly reminder is poor Paul Krugman railing against the apparently universal belief in America and Europe that we’ve got to cut budgets right now or disaster will strike. He calls this a Zombie idea, a false claim that has been falsified…
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Read more: Professional Athletes and Personal Responsibility for Health Professional Athletes and Personal Responsibility for Health
By Yoni Schenker [Disclaimer: I am not involved in this, and the views expressed here are entirely my own.] Concussions and Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) have been the dominant subject of concern in the sports world recently, and for good reason, but I would like to highlight an often overlooked and more general problem. Our athletes…
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Read more: No Doctor for the Obese? No Doctor for the Obese?
by Nir Eyal Yesterday, Boston public radio station WBUR interviewed a Massachusetts primary care physician who refuses to admit new obese patients. She claims that it’s because she lacks proper equipment, but she seems to have mixed motives. Earlier she had admitted that it’s rather because she feels that if they don’t lose the weight, “I’m paying the cost of other people’s…