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Race – and Place – Matters for Health
A child is born in the United States. How much information do you need to predict her future health? To predict if she will enjoy a healthy life? If she will die an early death? One important piece of...
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Beyond Crime and Punishment
We have a problem, you know, and it’s only getting worse. It doesn’t strike us equally – it’s a problem that mostly affects young men, minorities, and people without high school diplomas. It’s worse...
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The Public Health Problem of Anti-LGBT Bullying
Bullying of LGBT teens is a serious public health problem. To address it, we must start with legislation to overhaul school environments. Only fourteen states specifically protect LGBT students from...
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How Discrimination Links Lives Together
Recently, I wrote a piece for The Atlantic on how racism is bad for the body. For the bulk of the essay, I discuss how racism harms a single person’s health directly – and I link public health research...
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More Treatment, Less War: The White House Drug Policy Reform
Many people who want substance abuse treatment can’t get it. The White House wants to fix this. Can they do it, and will it help? On Wednesday, April 24, the White House Office of National Drug Control...
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The Gun Violence Epidemic
Violence breaks down communities. But, often, these communities are already broken down by poverty, joblessness, and inequality. When violence breaks out, people – and businesses – don’t want to move...
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Bullet Points: This article has no waiting period
In December of 2012, I was asked my thoughts on the Sandy Hook shooting on Twitter, and if I was going to write about it through a public health lens. I said no – I didn’t want to weigh in so soon, and...
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Black lives must matter more in health research
Anyone who thinks America is a ‘post-racial’ society is delusional. ‘Post-racial’ is political discourse that aims to deny any presence of racism or racial inequality in modern society. Racism is...
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The Narrative of Privilege
Today we welcome Luckett to the blog. Her biography is at the end of the post. ‘Miss,’ she said, as I bit my tongue. I was choking on the worst insult a female junior doctor can bear, ‘I know that...
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Everything you need to know about social determinants of health you can learn...
It’s that time of year again. Summer is ending, undergrads are flooding university campuses, and people are moving. When people move, a few things become mandatory, for example, pizza or some other...
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Police-related killings are countable public health data
What is the purpose of public health? Public health is a societal approach to protecting and improving the health and well-being of populations (1). Rather than focus on the health of individuals –...
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Basic Income: A radical idea for eliminating poverty
The Watson Arts Centre in Dauphin, Manitoba (photo from Wikipedia) I imagine most of my readers have never heard of Dauphin, Manitoba. A small, farming community in Canada, Dauphin is a town that was...
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Perhaps there is a drug that can prolong your life. It’s called money
A wise man once said that “mo’ money, mo’ problems” (Wallace, 1997). However, despite increases in supposed problems, one of the major benefits is increased life expectancy. New research published in...
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