From PLOS Medicine: Police-related killings are countable public health data

17124174130_057fc4c46e_o-690x320What 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 – that’s medicine

Why are middle-aged white Americans dying faster than others?

Figure-2-690x320The best findings in science aren’t the ones that make you go “cool!” they’re the ones that make you go “huh?” A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported a strange and unexpected

Mapping obesity and poverty in the United States

  More than one in three adults in America are obese (1). The prevalence of obesity grew dramatically throughout the 1990s, and has slowly levelled off over the early 2000s. Obesity is one of the biggest and most controversial public … Continue reading »

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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 crystal … Continue reading »

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The evolution of sedentary time

This post originally appeared on Mr Epidemiology on 16 April 2012. The negative health effects of sedentary behaviour are a hot topic gaining scientific and popular attention. News outlets have emphasised that sitting is killing us. Given the tsunami-like obesity epidemic that has … Continue reading »

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Using Video Games to Model Real Life Outbreaks

Those of you who know me know that I’m a video game nerd. And comic book nerd. And just nerdy nerd in general. So when I read an article that used World of Warcraft to model disease outbreaks, I jumped … Continue reading »

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A healthy society is a disaster resilient society

Today, we warmly welcome to the blog Professor Shinichi Egawa from the Division for International Cooperation for Disaster Medicine, International Institute of Disaster Science at Tōhoku University. His bio can be found at the bottom of this post. Disasters are usually measured … Continue reading »

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