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Everything is Public Health

English, Sciences, 4 seasons, 163 episodes, 2 days, 12 hours, 57 minutes
About
So many things impact our health. The physical things around you, the social interactions, the policies you may never notice, are all quietly there, influencing our health and wellbeing in subtle ways everyday. Some are there on purpose to prevent bad outcomes, some are issues that we still need to address, but most go unnoticed by many of us. This is the world of public health; a science of understanding the countless forces and designing solutions to help prevent or mitigate harm and improve the health of the people. Every Thursday, this podcast explores one concept and delves into those hidden forces. Welcome to Everything is Public Health.
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Train to Busan Except This Time with Public Health

A shorter episode because Train to Busan was wall to wall zombies. Email: [email protected]    Instagram and Threads: Everything is Public Health Bluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Photo Credit: Photo by Oh Taeyeon on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/a-view-of-a-train-track-with-a-mountain-in-the-background-H4X3baHqGz8?utm_content=creditShareLink&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplashSupport the Show.
8/1/202433 minutes, 50 seconds
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I Am Legend Except this time with Public Health

I Am Legend is an iconic movie that in some ways transformed the zombie genre. But how did the movie do from a public health perspective? Let's see. Email: [email protected]    Instagram and Threads: Everything is Public Health Bluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Photo credit: Photo by Jermaine Ee on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/new-york-central-park-A2CChTZvzTE?utm_content=creditShareLink&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplashSupport the Show.
6/20/202459 minutes, 38 seconds
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The Last of Us (TV) Except This Time with Public Health

The Last of Us, the TV show adaptation for the popular video game of the same name, featured the less typical fungal infection zombie apocalypse.  It has everything, from a stellar cast, a gripping plot, excellent acting, tension, tears, and thought provoking moral dilemmas. But you know what it doesn't have? Public health. Let's reexamine the pre-apocolypes world in The Last of Us through the lens of public health and see what we can learn! Email: [email protected]    Instagram and Threads: Everything is Public Health Bluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Photo Credit: Photo by Ralph Katieb on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/a-bunch-of-leaves-that-are-on-the-ground-co6CPEldQcQ?utm_content=creditShareLink&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplashSupport the Show.
6/6/202452 minutes, 2 seconds
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...Except There Is A Great Public Health System

Resident Evil 2 (remake) and it's complete lack of any public health infrastructure. Popular media is important. They form our perspectives and possibly affect our behavior. What happens when we view our favorite popular media through the lens of Public Health? What can we learn? Announcing a new series! First entry drops in a month or so! Season 4 next week! Email: [email protected]    Instagram and Threads: Everything is Public Health Mastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth     Support the show
8/31/202317 minutes, 42 seconds
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Throwback Episode: 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs

A throw back episode to one of my favorite episode from season 1! The longer essay episode is a bit delayed and will be released next week. Season 4 is just around the corner! Email: [email protected]    Instagram and Threads: Everything is Public Health Mastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth    Support the show
8/24/202324 minutes, 32 seconds
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There is No Nobel Prize for Public Health

What does Public Health need? Please let me know if you've heard any of those awards. Email: [email protected]    Instagram and Threads: Everything is Public Health Mastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth     Support the show
8/17/202318 minutes, 37 seconds
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The Barbie Movie and Doomerism

What does The Barbie Movie have to do with public health? SPOILERS FOR THE BARBIE MOVIE in here. Email: [email protected]    Instagram and Threads: Everything is Public Health Mastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth    Support the show
8/10/202311 minutes, 57 seconds
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Hot Labor Summer

Rambling about why unions are important and all the things unions gave us. Support the actors/writer strike, and in general any strikes for better working conditions. Email: [email protected]    Instagram and Threads: Everything is Public Health Mastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   National Labor Relations Boardhttps://www.nlrb.gov/Support the show
8/3/202315 minutes, 47 seconds
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Datatudes Crossover! Arbitrary Categories and Cutoffs

A special crossover episode between Everything is Public Health and Datatudes Podcast! The world is full of continuous variables that we are forced to put into buckets or find a cutoff for. Sometimes it's innocuous, sometimes these decisions have great consequences.  Guest: Elizabeth Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Instagram: Everything is Public Health Mastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Twitter: EverythingisPH  Support the show
7/27/202330 minutes, 50 seconds
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John Green v. Johnson & Johnson (or why big pharma sucks)

John Green, Tuberculosis, and  Bedaquiline: a hot but common take on big pharma and its flaws. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Instagram: Everything is Public Health Threads: Everything is Public HealthMastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Twitter: EverythingisPH    References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywz5xYuNPohttps://www.msf.org/6-things-big-pharma-doesn%E2%80%99t-want-you-know-access-medicineshttps://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/johnson-johnson-sues-researchers-who-linked-talc-cancer-2023-07-13/https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/14/tb-drug-bedaquiline-johnson-and-johnson-john-green/https://www.msf.org/johnson-johnson-must-halve-price-lifesaving-tb-drug-bedaquiline Support the show
7/20/202316 minutes, 25 seconds
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There are no public restrooms and I must poop

Public restrooms, a Broadway Musical, and who can exist where. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Instagram: Everything is Public Health Threads: Everything is Public HealthMastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Twitter: EverythingisPH    References: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/business/public-restrooms-bathrooms-us-city.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nevil_Maskelynehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_toilet#Historyhttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/649324/pay-toilet-historyhttps://time.com/92865/un-one-billion-people-still-poop-in-public/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-05/why-american-cities-lost-their-public-bathroomshttps://scrippsnews.com/stories/why-public-bathrooms-are-so-rare-in-america/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UrinetownSupport the show
7/13/202324 minutes, 49 seconds
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Affirmative Action and the Myth of Meritocracy

Still working on this month's long essay episode which will be out (hopefully) next week so in the mean time here's a mini episode of MJ's hot take on a piece of current event! Student for Fair Admission v. Harvard struck down Affirmative Action and that is a bad thing because meritocracy is a myth. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Instagram: Everything is Public Health Mastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Twitter: EverythingisPH   Articles: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/02/1183981097/affirmative-action-asian-americans-pochttps://apnews.com/article/legacy-admissions-affirmative-action-colleges-4a4e1191274e91e695e0631ff5156875Support the show
7/6/202314 minutes, 9 seconds
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Datatudes Crossover! Help The Data I Want Does Not Exist

A special crossover episode between Everything is Public Health and Datatudes Podcast! Often in Public Health, data is hard to come by. The ideal data often time is out of reach. So what can we do data science wise? Guest: Elizabeth Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Instagram: Everything is Public Health Mastodon: @everythingispublichealth  Twitter: EverythingisPH  Support the show
6/29/202336 minutes, 35 seconds
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MJ is a madman and has another podcast

Check out MJ's other podcast Datatude here: https://datatude.buzzsprout.com/New episode next week! Stay tuned!  -o-Visit our website for more detail and updates! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Instagram: Everything is Public Health Email: [email protected]   Twitter: EverythingisPH Mastodon: @everythingispublichealth Support the show
3/30/20232 minutes, 10 seconds
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BONUS: Season 1 Retrospective

A bonus, almost-no-filter episode in which we reflect on season 1 of Everything is Public Health! Busy working on season 2!!! See you all soon! Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
6/16/202235 minutes, 47 seconds
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Public Health+: Season 1 Wrap!!!

Season 1 is over! We will be taking a summer break in the month of June and returning the first Thursday of July with a bigger and better season 2!!!!Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
5/30/20224 minutes, 11 seconds
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Voting is Public Health - Democracy is Public Health

The problems in our political system is not the faults in the democratic process, but because we have strayed away from the democratic process. Anything that subverts the democratic process (voter suppression, corruption, gerrymandering, etc.) are dangerous. Why democracy is important to public health. Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Photo Credit: Photo by Phillip Goldsberry on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/GidItEeb_24?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
5/26/202233 minutes, 51 seconds
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Emergency Services is Public Health - The Under-supported, Under-appreciated, and Under-recognized EMS

It's EMS Week! Show some love and appreciation to all the EMS working tirelessly and silently around us. EMS Week: https://emsweek.org/about-ems-week/https://www.ems.gov/http://www.naemt.org/initiatives/ems-weekTwitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Photo Credit: Photo by Mat Napo on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/ejWJ3a92FEs?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
5/19/202232 minutes, 29 seconds
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Public Health + : Anti-Homeless Architecture

What do anti-homeless architecture look like? Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
5/16/20227 minutes, 56 seconds
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Housing is Public Health - Homeless Shelters

A discussion about the ambivalent nature of homeless shelters, and how they distract us from the root cause and ultimate solution. Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Photo Credit: Photo by Randy Jacob on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/B95VRTAEf-M?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
5/12/202229 minutes, 23 seconds
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Public Health+ : The 2020 Census

So what was all the drama regarding the 2020 Census about? Who was over counted and who was under counted? Also, a misleading headline from The Washington PostTwitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
5/9/202210 minutes, 55 seconds
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Data is Public Health - The Census

Why is The Census important for public health? Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Photo Credit: Photo by Enayet Raheem on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/0UxQZNoLnlk?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
5/5/202220 minutes, 6 seconds
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Gun Violence is Public Health - Ghost Guns

What is a ghost gun? And why are they a public health concern? Featuring Special Guest: Prof. Alex McCourt Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     -o-PhotoCreditPhoto by Jacob Boavista on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/5XM32s3dfzA?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink  Support the show
4/28/202235 minutes, 24 seconds
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Public Health+ : Falling Life Expectancy

For the first time since World War II, US life expectancy has fallen. What does that mean? How is life expectancy calculated? -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
4/25/202211 minutes, 39 seconds
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Food is Public Health - Food Insecurities and Food Wastes

You may see those poster of "every month, 1 in x children go hungry", but what does that really mean? How is food insecurities defined?  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Photo Credit: Photo by Enrico Mantegazza on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/B0ADZiToKgw?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
4/21/202228 minutes, 37 seconds
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Public Health+ : Speaking Up?

When doctors see something questionable and problematic, do they speak up? -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
4/18/20228 minutes, 50 seconds
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Patient Safety is Public Health - Medical Errors

What are medical errors? Why do they occur? And how often do they harm patients? The place people go to be healed is also where some get hurt. **EDIT**The 250,000 death from medical errors has been debunked. Real number is much lower, though still not clear. HOWEVER, medical errors is still a serious issue that needs to be addressed. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Picture Credit: Photo by Piron Guillaume on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/U4FyCp3-KzY?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
4/14/202223 minutes, 5 seconds
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Public Health+ : Turn Off The Tap First

We can't fix the plastic pollution problem without killing the source of plastics. Paper is renewable and compostable. Plastic is not. All that don't use paper because it kills trees is plastic propaganda. Also, use bamboo and glass and metal.  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
4/11/202212 minutes, 27 seconds
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Environment is Public Health - Biomagnification and Plastics in The Ocean

Why is taking care of the environment public health? In the case of the ocean, what we dump in there comes right back to us . -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Photo Credit: Photo by Sebastian Pena Lambarri on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/YV593oyMKmo?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
4/7/202219 minutes, 25 seconds
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Public Health+ : A Peak At The Other Side (because that's all we could stomach)

I made one of my biggest sacrifice I've made for this show.   -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
4/4/20228 minutes, 19 seconds
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Abortion Access is Public Health - Banning Abortion Without Banning Abortion

Part 2 of our first discussion about abortion access as a public health concern. In this episode: all the reasons some states use to justify abortion regulations, and why abortion is a public health issue. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Photo Credit: Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/0XFPG5ntedo?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink Support the show
3/31/202245 minutes, 52 seconds
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Public Health+ : Why is Abortion Not A Part of The Freedom Conversation?

 For better or for worse, freedom has always been a part of the American legal ethos. But when it comes to abortions, all that seems to go out the window. Why? Digression includes social media feed, going to the sources, and other spicy takes. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
3/28/202212 minutes, 43 seconds
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Abortion Access is Public Health - The Origin of Criminalizing Abortions

How did a medical procedure get tangled in all these legal and political controversies?  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Photo Credit: Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/0XFPG5ntedo?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
3/24/202224 minutes, 49 seconds
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Public Health+ : The Medicaid Gap

What is the Medicaid Gap? Why does it exists? -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
3/21/202212 minutes, 56 seconds
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Dental Health is Public Health - Why Are Teeth Not A Part of The Body?

Your health insurance does not cover dental or your eyes. Why not? Why isn't the teeth part of the body? -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]   Photo Credit: Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/kpLEaeScdHY?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
3/17/202223 minutes, 23 seconds
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Public Health+ : What Tough on Crime Really Means

Tough on Crime is broke. I want Tough on White Collar Crime.  When people say Tough on Crime, they mean tough on a specific type of crime. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]  Support the show
3/14/202212 minutes, 26 seconds
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Criminal Justice is Public Health - Justice is Health

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The spirit of public health is about the health of everyone, which means anything at disproportionately affect one community over another is a public health concern. Our criminal justice system is not a fair one, and that has devastating impact on what it means to live in this country. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Photo Credit: Photo by LOGAN WEAVER on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/uwyqYYWUQJw?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
3/10/202221 minutes, 45 seconds
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Public Health+ : Fix the Broken Windows

We need to talk about the police. Broken window theory has been bastardized into broken window policing. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Support the show
3/7/202210 minutes, 8 seconds
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Gun Violence is Public Health - Community Violence Prevention

The trauma remains long after the bullets are removed. When we think of gun violence in America, we either think of mass shootings or gangs and drugs.  But that's not an accurate picture of gun violence in this country. A significant portions of gun violence exists in the community, and the majority of gun related deaths are tied to suicides. How can we prevent community violence? How can we tackle this incredibly complicated problem? -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Photo Credit: Photo by Kael Bloom on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/21MaU3f-j9s?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSound Credit: "Screen Saver" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Support the show
3/3/202228 minutes, 6 seconds
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Public Health+ : Public Schools Can't Fix Everything

School choice (conservatives) people love blaming everything on public schools. Stop blaming public schools on problems caused by almost a century of concentrated disadvantage. Also, summer breaks are too long.  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
2/28/202214 minutes, 10 seconds
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Education is Public Health - The Importance of Public Schools

There is a strong connection between educational attainment and health outcomes. Although our education system has faults and flaws, public school is nonetheless an earnest effort to provide everyone with education and future opportunities. In addition, public school is not just a school, but often times a resource for the students, the family, and the community surrounding it.  So why do some people want to undermine our already strained system? -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Photo Credit: Photo by Thomas Park on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/LT8LbZ7R3wE?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
2/24/202224 minutes, 33 seconds
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Public Health+ : New Zealand's Approach to Phasing Out Cigarettes

"New Zealand will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to eventually phase out smoking.Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in their lifetime, under a law expected to be enacted next year." - BBC Newshttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59589775More discussion about the tobacco industry and their unethical ways, and Cass gives a therapy session for MJ.  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
2/21/202214 minutes, 3 seconds
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Ending Tobacco is Public Health - Leading Cause of Preventable Death

"Nicotine is not addictive" - a bunch of tobacco executives to Congress, April 14, 1994. Cigarettes is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. How much does it cost us? How is tobacco still a thing?  -o- Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]       Photo Credit:  Photo by Julia Engel on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/B9UZSOU0pVQ?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
2/17/202227 minutes, 10 seconds
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Public Health+ : Why Does It Cost Money To Be Poor?

A follow-up on your poverty episode. Why does it cost money to be poor? -o- Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
2/14/202212 minutes, 53 seconds
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Poverty is Public Health - What is Poverty?

Poverty is something that underpins so many other social and public health issues. But what exactly is it? How does it affect people's decision making? We cannot discuss public health without first discussing the complete destructive impact poverty have on individuals. Without addressing poverty, we cannot truly achieve health for everyone. -o- Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Photo Credit: Photo by Ricardo Díaz on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/19GHrC3nFSc?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
2/10/202225 minutes, 50 seconds
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Public Health+ : Purposefully Punitive

Why do so many of our drug policies focus on punishment and purposefully target certain groups of people? Shout out to Dr. Ibram X Kendi (MJ: Sorry for mispronouncing your name in this episode)-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
2/7/202212 minutes, 58 seconds
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Mental Health is Public Health - What is Stigma?

 What is stigma? It is one of those terms that we have all probably heard at one point, but if we are pressed to define it academically, we may struggle to do so. How does stigma on mental illness and substance use disorder affect how are health policies are formed? Special Guest: Dr. Beth McGinty -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Photo Credit: Photo by Finn on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/nJupV3AOP-U?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkMusic Credit: Between Worlds (Instrumental) by Aussens@iter (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/tobias_weber/56664 Ft: (Smiling Cynic)Support the show
2/3/202231 minutes, 38 seconds
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Public Health+ : Free COVID Tests

Go to www.covidtests.gov to order free COVID rapid tests for your household. How much testing is enough? How much testing is too much and wasting resources? -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
1/31/202212 minutes, 46 seconds
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Public Health Infrastructure is Public Health - 5 Reasons Why We Weren't Ready for a Pandemic

 What are the components of a good public health infrastructure and why don't we have it? “The success or failure of any government in the final analysis must be measured by the well-being of its citizens. Nothing can be more important to a state than its public health; the state’s paramount concern should be the health of its people." FDR, 1932-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Support the show
1/27/202231 minutes, 3 seconds
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Public Health+ : The FDA Can't Win

Is the FDA trying to hard to be friends with the things they are suppose to be regulating?  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
1/24/202211 minutes, 17 seconds
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Food is Public Health - 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs

You may have heard of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, but have you heard of 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs? Food regulations plays an important role in our health and safety. In a capitalistic system where money is highest virtue, it was only a matter of time before something unethical happened. And several unethical things did happen.  Thankfully, several expose revealed these awful practices from the food and drug companies, and regulations stepped in the early and mid1900s to prevent these dangerous products from reaching the consumers. What inspired these changes? Two books come to mind. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]   Photo Credit: Chicago - Meat Packing Industry: dropping hides and splitting chucks, beef dept., Swift & Co.'s Packing HouseH77-14 U.S. No known restrictions on publication.Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/Support the show
1/20/202224 minutes, 25 seconds
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Public Health+ : Oxford High School Shooting

Could ERPO have prevented the Oxford High School Shooting in Detroit?  Tune in for our discussion on this recent tragedy. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]  Support the show
1/17/202215 minutes, 13 seconds
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Gun Violence is Public Health - ERPO

 What if we could have prevented this tragedy? On the 27th of May, 2014, The Onion Published one of their most influential article that turned into a whole series. Almost 8 years later, have we learned the lesson? This episode talks about one of the tools to prevent gun violence, the Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO). Tune into to learn more. Special Guest: Dr. Shannon Frattaroli Twitter: @SF4PublicHealth Resources: Implement ERPOhttps://americanhealth.jhu.edu/implementERPO-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Photo Credit: From Wikimedia, under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. Support the show
1/13/202224 minutes, 5 seconds
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Public Health+ : Healthcare Is A Right

Is healthcare is a right? First question, positive right or negative right? The UN, and a lot of other countries, recognize healthcare as a right, and therefore have enacted some form of universal healthcare. The US however, have not follow this very reasonable trend. For us, healthcare should be a (positive ) right. Tune in to listen to our debunking of all the arguments against universal healthcare! Welcome to the show after the show! This is where we let our opinions fly free and chat about the subject openly. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
1/10/202218 minutes, 23 seconds
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Healthcare is Public Health - The Beautiful and Messed Up US Healthcare System

What is wrong with the US healthcare system? First episode of 2022! Welcome back listeners! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and a great start to the new year. May 2022 be filled with a bit more joy than 2021. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Photo credits: Photo by Valery Fedotov on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/CqX6IhVj2TI?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show
1/6/202223 minutes, 5 seconds
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BONUS: Christmas Fireside Chat

Is Cass a Raven's fan? We're taking two weeks off for the holidays! Join us on another fireside chat as we talk about our holiday plans and a bunch of other completely unrelated things. We will return Thursday, January 6th! Stay safe everyone!-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Support the show
12/23/202127 minutes, 21 seconds
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Public Health+ : Exercise Myths

Part 2 of our discussion on exercise! This was cut from the main episode due to length, but we felt it was important to include in our show. Happy Holidays Everyone! -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
12/20/20218 minutes, 39 seconds
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Exercise is Public Health - A Brief History of Exercise

Why not wanting to exercise does not mean you're abnormal. But exercise is still good for you. The key of exercise from a public health's perspective is building sustainable routines and leveraging the environment to do so. Exercise on pure will power is not an efficient way to encourage people to exercise at a wider level. Tune in to find out more! We're talking Christmas and New Years off! We will return the first Thursday of January 2022!!! -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]         Support the show
12/16/202124 minutes, 7 seconds
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Public Health+ : Household Air Pollution

The type of air pollution that's easier to picture. Millions of people around the world are still using biomass and kerosene for cooking and heating, and the health impact of these burning sources causes premature deaths around the world. Reference: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/household-air-pollution-and-health-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]        Support the show
12/13/202110 minutes, 31 seconds
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Air is Public Health - A Slow Death by Air Pollution

For most of us, we hardly ever think about the air we breathe. However, poor air quality is certainly a great concern for almost everyone on this planet. How many people are affected by air pollution? How does the things we release in the air come back to harm us?  Resources and references: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935121000487?casa_token=nm5I682yAjgAAAAA:agnBw3bTWWmxaaBnZ2sTkEQoNcSCeUkUYv2GJ_B4yNyy0nJ2m6aVzIo_xJNSJquoDbG7FabDhttps://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3Y8Ar5Fung7m1mp-mdwcMtjqxpXczkVKkwYgyRr6r8fNn_lWugooO5O5o#1156535https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/05/carbon-top-1-percent-could-jeopardise-1point5c-global-heating-limit?utm_term=61851e754cb5de95249104e89ebce663&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]       Support the show
12/9/202123 minutes, 42 seconds
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Public Health+ : More Houses Could Mean Higher Rent

What is induced demand?  Why do more houses lead to higher prices?  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
12/6/202110 minutes, 14 seconds
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Housing is Public Health - We Could End Homelessness If We Wanted To

Are there more empty houses or more homeless individuals? Homelessness is a huge public health issue that we as a society pay for. What if we can transform that cost into prevention? -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Support the show
12/2/202123 minutes, 48 seconds
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Public Health+ : Should We Lower the Drinking Age?

Unlike most other countries, the US legal drinking age is 21 instead of 18 or 19 years old. Should this be lowered? Turns out the evidence is more nebulous than you think. https://drinkingage.procon.org/-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
11/29/202110 minutes, 21 seconds
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BONUS: Thanksgiving Fireside Chat

We're taking the week of Thanksgiving off! Happy Holidays and have a wonderful time everyone! This fireside chat is just that, a chat between me and Cass talking about our Thanksgiving plans and many other digressions. We are extremely thankful for all of our listeners and each and every download we receive. Thank you all so much for supporting this small and independent podcast. Thank you listeners. We will return with a Public Health+ Bonus episode next Monday! Support the show
11/22/202118 minutes, 10 seconds
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Drug Policy is Public Health - What We Should Have Learned from Prohibition

Roughly a century ago America tried banning the production and distribution of alcohol which failed spectacularly. However, it seems like we did not learn the lesson. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Support the show
11/18/202123 minutes, 2 seconds
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Public Health+ : The Good Guy with a Gun Fallacy

How a flawed idea became a central piece of the gun lobby's argument and shaped gun policies in this country, despite its many, many problems. This episode is on the longer side as far as our bonus episodes go, but we believe the information here is important to keep in the episode. Hope you enjoy it! -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
11/15/202117 minutes, 27 seconds
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Gun Violence is Public Health - Microstamping

What is microstamping? Join us and special guest Josh Horwitz, the executive director of The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence to talk about this simple but ingenious new technology which has the potential to transform the way we gather data about guns. This includes potentially revolutionizing ballistics forensic to drastically improve our ability to solve gun related crimes. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]   Support the show
11/11/202129 minutes, 13 seconds
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Public Health+ : Appropriate Statistics

A quick bonus episode about statistics and its misuses. What's the difference between statistically significant and practical significance? -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]  Support the show
11/8/20219 minutes, 31 seconds
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Sleep is Public Health - Daylight Savings Should Go

Why do we still have Daylight Savings? Where did it come from? Regardless of whether you like it on or off, the general feeling is that we should definitely stop changing the clocks twice a year. Some arguments both for and against daylight savings: https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/wellness-prevention/why-we-should-abolish-daylight-saving-timehttps://theconversation.com/5-ways-life-would-be-better-if-it-were-always-daylight-saving-time-111506-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
11/4/202118 minutes, 25 seconds
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Public Health+ : Taxes pay for things

No one likes paying taxes. But they do pay for important things.   -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Support the show
11/1/202110 minutes, 59 seconds
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Water is Public Health - Who has Clean Running Water?

We often take clean running water for granted, but there are lots of Americans to this day without access to safe running water, or sometimes without adequate indoor plumbing. Join us on our first of many episodes on water in this country. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
10/28/202124 minutes, 36 seconds
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Public Health+ : Asbestos is Not Banned

You know that awful, terrible, cancerous, harmful thing that you've been constantly warned about? Turns out, not banned. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
10/25/202111 minutes, 47 seconds
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Regulation is Public Health - Leaded Fuel

Ever wonder why gas pumps say "Unleaded Gas" when it's practically impossible to find leaded gas? What even is leaded gas? What happened to it? How was it phased out? Was is phased out completely? Are there communities affected by leaded gas today? (yes)Reid Hillview Airport:https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/03/a-crisis-on-our-hands-san-joses-reid-hillview-airport-exposes-children-to-high-lead-levels-study-finds/-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Support the show
10/21/202122 minutes, 42 seconds
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Public Health+ : So What's the Deal with Fluoride?

We know that fluoride is good for your teeth, but is fluoridated water safe? If it is safe, is it cost-effective? This is a more complicated subject than I thought. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
10/18/202110 minutes, 9 seconds
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Messaging is Public Health - A Tale of Two Elements I and F

The tales of iodine and fluoride in the history of public health found two very different endings. Tune in to learn more about the origin of iodized salt and fluoridated water! -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
10/14/202128 minutes, 8 seconds
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Public Health+ : Pink Tax

What are pink tax and tampon taxes? How are they a thing? Remember Bic for her? That's a pink tax.  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
10/11/20219 minutes, 49 seconds
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Law is Public Health - Preemption

What is Preemption? And why does it have to do with public health? -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Support the show
10/7/202128 minutes, 47 seconds
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Public Health+ : More of Episode 14

Bonus content for episode 14, our feminism episode on healthcare gaslighting "There nothing wrong"!  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
10/4/202112 minutes, 5 seconds
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Feminism is Public Health - "There's nothing wrong."

Why don't doctors listen to women? Medical gaslighting refers to instances when physicians dismiss, ignore, or undermine the complains and symptoms of patients. While it could happen to any patient, historically women were the primary group affected by this phenomenon. From the lack of investment in women's reproductive health to the residual effect of "hysteria" as a diagnosis, women often face instances when they were told there is nothing wrong with them despite how they are feeling. Public health is the health of everyone. Any systemic issue half of the human population face deserves attention. Special thanks to all the women I interviewed for this episode. Unfortunately, I couldn't include all the interviews. I hope I did your story justice. -o-Sound and Music Credit: "Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Screen Saver" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]       Support the show
9/30/202128 minutes, 18 seconds
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Public Health+ : America the Unwalkable

American cities and suburbs are notoriously difficult to get anywhere without a car. Let's talk about that. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
9/27/202110 minutes, 49 seconds
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Anti-Racism is Public Health - Cutting Neighborhoods with A Highway

"There's a reason you don't see factories in Beverly Hills." Highways are not great. They are load, they are heat traps, they take up a lot of space, and living near one negatively impacts your health. Where we placed these huge highways were not done equitably. Discriminatory policies and infrastructure meant these highways targeted certain neighborhoods to destroy. A podcast about public health must discuss racism, because racism is a public health issue. Baltimore's Road to Nowhere: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/21/roads-nowhere-infrastructure-american-inequality-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Support the show
9/23/202120 minutes, 48 seconds
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Public Health+ : Handwashing

A brief interlude about handwashing, and why you should always put the toilet cover down when flushing. P.S. For some reason parts of the audio got distorted, we don't know why and we sincerely apologize for the technical issue. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Support the show
9/20/20218 minutes, 46 seconds
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Design is Public Health - The Swiss Cheese Model

What is the Swiss Cheese Model and what does it have to do with safety and public health? This is a more conceptual episode in which we discuss a big picture concept that improves the structure of a system to be less error prone and more robust. You can find elements of this model in patient safety, security, and tech. The answer is many layers of the metaphorical Swiss cheese. Check out the Bike Helmet Campaign! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8qp8KZbqrMP.S. For some reason parts of the audio got distorted, we don't know why and we sincerely apologize for the technical issue. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
9/16/202125 minutes, 12 seconds
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Public Health+ : Corporate Misdirection

Bonus episode! MJ's hot take that is too hot for the main episode. Those big companies and the ultra wealthy are more responsible for climate change than any individual will ever be. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]   Support the show
9/13/20218 minutes, 46 seconds
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Climate is Public Health - Heat

Climate change is real and we are now living in its consequences. Over the summer, we witness just a fraction of the punishment climate change will give us with unprecedented heatwaves and wildfires. How does heat impact our health? Why is climate change a public health issue? Tune in to find out! Mentioned:Dr. Kirsten Koehler PhD, Environmental Health and Engineering Heat Island Cooling: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/about/key-initiatives/scibar/funded-scibar-projects/waking-up-to-climate-changeInterested in living sustainably? Start here!https://lowimpactlove.com/low-impact-living/https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-47990742-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]   Support the show
9/9/202124 minutes, 19 seconds
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Public Health+ : Dollar Stores, Turning Swamps into Deserts

Bonus episode! How do dollar stores turn food swamps into food deserts?  Tune in to MJ's Hot Takes.-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]  Support the show
9/6/20218 minutes, 38 seconds
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Food is Public Health - Food Swamps

Our 10th episode!!! To celebrate this small milestone for our humble podcast, we've decided to loop back to the episode that got it all started: Food desert. But this time, we are talking about its cousin, Food Swamps. What are they? How are they different from food deserts? Why do they predict obesity rates more accurately than food deserts? What does psychology have to do with any of this? Food really is Public Health. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]  Support the show
9/2/202120 minutes, 19 seconds
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Public Health+ : Is Crime at An All-time High?

A part that was cut from Episode 9 due to time, released as a bonus! Is crime at an all-time high?  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
8/30/20214 minutes, 4 seconds
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Gun Violence is Public Health - Myths and Misconceptions

Gun Violence is a big problem in America, and it is one of those topics that people love to argue about and comment on, sometimes without really knowing what they are talking about. What's the scale of the problem? What solutions work and what does not? How does the media play into all of this? There are a lot of myths, media misconception surrounding gun violence, but thankfully we have Cass who is an expert on this topic co-hosting this show to bust all those misconceptions, and clear the table on what the facts are with gun violence in this country. Free Coursera Course: Reducing Gun Violence in America: Evidence for Change | Coursera-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
8/26/202124 minutes, 3 seconds
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Public Health+ : Taiwan's Healthcare System is Too Good

BONUS episode for episode 8!What is Moral Hazard? How does it relate to health insurance? And how can a healthcare system be TOO good?  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]       Support the show
8/23/20218 minutes, 23 seconds
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Healthcare is Public Health - All The Ways You Can Be Uninsured

The US does not have universal healthcare, practically the only wealthy country that doesn't have it. This means we have the unique problem of uninsured individuals. What does this mean from a public health perspective? What happens when we have a high proportion of uninsured? How do you end up being uninsured?  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]       Support the show
8/19/202126 minutes
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Public Health+ : Narrow Elections

BONUS Episode for Episode 7! Narrow elections are more common than you think, especially at lower level elections. Your vote really matters! Ever wonder why politics nowadays are so volatile and incendiary? This is a deliberate strategy commonly used by political insurgents to accomplish their agenda. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]      Support the show
8/16/20219 minutes, 1 second
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Voting is Public Health - Local Elections

Voting is important. The spirit of public health is the health of everyone, the entire population, and therefore it is imperative that everyone gets to vote. When we typically think of voting, we think about the big ticket positions like the president, US Senators or US Representatives. But when it comes to the laws and policies that actually have the most impact on our lives, they pertain to a whole separate area of voting that often flies under the radar. Local elections have the most intimate and proximal impact on our daily lives and our health. This episode discusses not just why voting matters, but why voting in local election is so much more important than most people may believe. P.S. When we recorded this, Florida was still oblivious for the COVID surge that is happening right now. By the time this is released, we can see the consequences of the Florida governor in full swing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/09/when-it-comes-new-coronavirus-surge-florida-is-an-obvious-outlier/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2VFjhSdYINvbS00XJtn4isXTmd9M_3LnyUWn5Ifm5f8jE_uOngWRkkPWAP.P.S To the 7 people who heard the editing error when this episode launched, apologies and it was been fixed now!  -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]     Support the show
8/12/202126 minutes, 29 seconds
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Built Environment is Public Health - Lead Paint

What happens when the US is more than 70 years late on banning lead paint? One area of public health is focusing on how the built environment affects us. In this case, the lead paint on the walls. How do they affect us? What was the consequences of delayed action? And what can we do about it now? -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]    Support the show
8/5/202126 minutes, 42 seconds
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Sexual Health is Public Health - The Problem with Abstinence Only Sex Ed: Part 2

Abstinence only not only doesn't work in its state goal of promoting abstinence, it also has other consequences beyond sex education. In part 1, we defined what abstinence only sex ed is and what cunning strategy its proponents are using to keep the abstinence only curriculum going, in this episode we will discuss the current policy landscape of sex ed in America and what consequences teaching abstinence only sex ed have. Featuring special guest: Caitlin Viccora!Check out Caitlin's Podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/between-the-pages/id1521858696https://www.instagram.com/betweenthepagespod/?hl=en-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]   Support the show
7/29/202129 minutes, 16 seconds
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Sexual Health is Public Health - The Problem with Abstinence Only Sex Ed: Part 1

Sex ed is one of those awkward experiences that we don't think about much after it happens. But a proper sex education is important to help the teens and young adults prevent STIs, unexpected pregnancies, and understand their bodily functions. For many of us it was a comprehensive experience, but for a sizable fraction their experience was much more limited or an abstinence only curriculum. In other words, the focus was on preventing sex altogether instead of providing the information to reduce risks.  What is the history and origin of abstinence only sex ed? What health impact does it have? And most importantly, is it effective? (No). Join us and special guest Caitlin in a two part special that examines the issue of abstinence only sex ed. Featuring special guest: Caitlin Viccora!Check out Caitlin's Podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/between-the-pages/id1521858696https://www.instagram.com/betweenthepagespod/?hl=en-o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected]  Support the show
7/22/202124 minutes, 38 seconds
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Housing is Public Health - Having an Address

When we think of homelessness, we typically think of being literally without shelter. While that is the case for a lot of people, homelessness can also mean sleeping in your car, staying on a friend's couch, or hopping from place to place. Housing is public health, but how important is having a physical address? What can you do or not do if we don't have an address? -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: [email protected] the show
7/15/202118 minutes, 31 seconds
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Road Design is Public Health - Breakaway Street Lights

None of us wants to be in a car accident, and we do our best to avoid crashing into fixed structures like light posts. But beyond what the driver can control, public health is about designing the built environment to prevent injury and reduce harm. What does street lights have to do with this? How could they potentially save your life? -o- Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth Email: [email protected] the show
7/8/202124 minutes, 54 seconds
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Food is Public Health - Food Deserts

For many of us, groceries are just there. We may think about how often we shop for groceries, or how much we spend each week on groceries, but for most of us we hardly think about our access to them or how we get there. What happens when people live in an area that doesn't have easy access to food and groceries? Food deserts are those areas, and they have a profound impact on the health of people living there. -o-Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealthEmail: [email protected] the show
7/1/202125 minutes, 57 seconds
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Everything is Public Health Ep. 0

Welcome to Everything is Public Health! So many things impact our health. The physical things around you, the social interactions, the policies you may never notice, are all quietly there, influencing our health and well-being in subtle ways everyday. Some are there on purpose to prevent bad outcomes, some are issues that we still need to address, but most go unnoticed by many of us. This is the world of public health; a science of understanding the countless forces and designing solutions to help prevent or mitigate harm and improve the health of the people. Once a week, this podcast explores one concept and delves into those hidden forces. We are one and a half public health professionals (MJ is the half), and we hope to bring these public health ideas into the consciousness of our listeners. With some luck, we hope to inspire a new generation of public health minded people, because the more public health oriented we as a society become, the brighter our future is. Thank you so much for listening! MJ and CassTwitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPHPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealthSupport the show
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