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Sanitizing public health language: A response to the CDC language controversy
0000-0002-8715-2896 PLOSBLOGS Network & Public Health Perspectives are pleased to present this guest post discussing a public health controversy that, because it occurred late in December of...
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Thoughts and advice for the class of 2021
Last week, I saw someone ask a very simple question on Facebook: “If you could give one piece of advice to those starting undergrad next week, what would it be?” The comments were interesting. Several...
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Sickle Cell Awareness Day: Navigating the political process (Part 2)
Today, we’re continuing our interview with Senator Jane Cordy, a Senator from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and Mrs. Lanre Tunji-Ajayi, President & Executive Director of the Sickle Cell Disease...
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Sickle Cell Awareness Day: Creating a national day of action (Part 1)
Today, we’re welcoming Senator Jane Cordy, a Senator from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and Mrs. Lanre Tunji-Ajayi, President & Executive Director of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of Canada to the...
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Visualizing public health: How bad is the drug overdose epidemic?
In healthcare we’re data rich, but information poor. There are lots of surveys, studies, and healthcare data available to us through different programs, but very rarely do we see it presented in way...
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Which policies lead to less abortion? The ACA, state law & The Supreme Court
Abortion is at a historic low in the United States. Two factors are likely responsible for the drop in abortion rates: restrictions on abortion, and better access to birth control. Birth control...
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2016: A Year in Review
Thanks to all our old and new Public Health Perspectives readers for your support over the year. Your tweets, Facebook comments, and feedback are all really appreciated. Lets wrap up the year by...
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The only way to save Obamacare is to expand it
The Affordable Care Act was a landmark piece of legislation for the United States. While most other G-20 countries already have some form of universal healthcare (either through a single payer system,...
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Which diseases do we get to “fight”?
About two weeks ago, the Hospital for Sick Children, also known as SickKids, launched their new ad campaign. For those who aren’t from Canada, SickKids is based in Toronto, Ontario, is the second...
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How can one person completely change the results of a survey?
In public health, we rely heavily on samples, as measuring everyone you are interested is often impractical. However, this requires a lot of thought and development in order to avoid unintentionally...
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A Scientist Walks into a Museum
Ed Note: Today, we’re happy to welcome Dr. April Killikelly to the blog. More information about April can be found at the bottom of this post. If a museum is a stage for knowledge and learning, what...
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Public Health Takes on Anti-Vaccine Propaganda: Damage done, Challenges Ahead
Editor’s Note: PLOSBLOGS invited independent science journalist Beth Skwarecki to assess and contextualize the controversy which errupted in the US surrounding last month’s release of Vaxxed, a...
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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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The more we know, the less we know: Zika virus edition
Countries and territories with active Zika virus transmission (CDC) (as of 17/02/16) Three weeks ago, I published a piece on the Zika virus, and how it is transmitted by the Aedes mosquitoes. Well,...
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The Zika Virus – what do you need to know?
Countries and territories with active Zika virus transmission (CDC) The more I read up on a topic, the more complicated it ends up being. As you start trying to unravel the ball of yarn, every thread...
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Hot time summer in the city (Legionnaires Disease)
Photo courtesy DaveZ [click to go to Flickr page]1976 was a busy year in Philadelphia. They were holding the Bicentennial celebration, commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of...
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Using math to make Guinness
If you ever read public health research, you’ve probably encountered the term “Student’s t-test,” or just “t-test.” The experimenters will do this magical test, and suddenly conclude that everything is...
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The worm turns no more…
Public Health Perspectives is pleased to welcome Charles Ebikeme to the blog this week. For more information about Charles, see the end of this post. Bandaged children read about the guinea worm. John...
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India is Polio Free
A child receiving the polio vaccine | Image courtesy of the CDC Public Health Image Library Two weeks into 2014, and we have already received one of the best public health stories of the year: India is...
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The Biggest Public Health Stories of 2013
2013 was a big year for public health. We were thrust to the forefront again with disease outbreaks, and have had to deal with increased skepticism of the nature of what we do from the public....
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