Everything is Public Health

We didn't forget the other study designs we didn't cover in previous episodes! In this episode we talk about the case study, the case series, the longitudinal study, and the cross sectional study.  -o- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Instagram: Everything is Public Health  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com        Twitter: EverythingisPH  Support the sh...

Medical debt is a big problem that affects millions of Americans, which raises the question: Why is healthcare so expensive in this country?  Perhaps we are asking the question from the wrong perspective. -o- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Instagram: Everything is Public Health Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com        Twitter: EverythingisPH Photo Credit: Photo...

Happy Holidays Listeners! In this fireside chat episode, we discuss a bit about what finding a career in public health is like. Stay safe out there! -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com       Support the show

What is the Nudge principle? And how can we apply it to help people make better choices? References: Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com      Photo Credit: Photo by Tim Johnson on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/TW_dKLcR8...

The "gold standard" of study design, the Randomized Controlled Trial. What is it, and is it really the gold standard? -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com           Support the show

Traffic Deaths are preventable. Links: https://visionzeronetwork.org/ https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-traffic-fatalities https://www.npr.org/2022/08/25/1119110757/traffic-deaths-car-accident-hoboken-new-jersey-vision-zero?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20220828&utm_term=7170316&utm_campaign=best-of-npr&utm_id=58868046&orgid=7...

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Join us by the fire as we chat about our experience applying to public health schools and some of the dos and don'ts of applications!  Helpful Resources for applying to a public health program:  https://sophas.org/ https://aspph.org/ -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Emai...

Our hot takes and chats about diet fads and this never ending attempt to find the single "magic bullet" solution to all of our nutritional issues.  Edit: Nutritionism is credited to Gyorgy Scrinis, not Michael Pollan. Yes we are aware that Michael Pollan is problematic. -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublic...

There are things beyond calories that we must get from our food. Essential fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins and minerals! And what did they do to bread that made it just a block of nutrition-less carbs? -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com        Photo Credit: Photo...

The cousin of sensitivity and specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value is a powerful measure of a diagnostic test.  -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com       Resources:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608333/ https://www.re...

Why is vision insurance separate from health insurance? -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com      Photo Credit: Photo by David Travis on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/aVvZJC0ynBQ?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink Resourc...

We all had our fair share of COVID tests by now. When it comes to testing, what is sensitivity and specificity referring to? -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com      Support the show

Why don't they leave? (They do, but sometimes they can't) Why don't they call the police? (It's complicated). Special Guest: Dr. April Zeoli PhD, MPH Associate Professor Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention Dept. of Health Management & Policy School of Public Health University of Michigan Resources: National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233 https://www.thehotline....

Another episode of Public Health Explained is here! This time, we take a look at the Cohort Study and how it can be used to gather important public health data. -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com     Support the show

Sounds and noise are all around us. How does that affect our health?  Special Guest: Dr. Richard Neitzel, PhD, MS, CIH, FAIHA Professor, Environmental Health Sciences Associate Director, Global Public Health Professor, Global Public Health University of Michigan School of Public Health  -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingis...

Second episode of the Public Health Explained series! One question public health researchers love to ask is "what makes us sick?" One tool we can use is the case control study.  -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com     References:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih....

Mental illness has a big burden on the individuals and the society. Giving people the resources to address their own mental illness or help them address the mental illness of the loved ones around them can help so many people out of difficult situations. Mental health affects our health and vice versa. It's time we recognize that mental illness is just as serious as a physical illness. What i...

Welcome to the first installment of the new series, Public Health Explained! Each episode we will talk about and explain some basic public health terms and concepts as simply as we can. This episode is about incidence and prevalence, two terms that everyone undoubtedly heard over the last two years with the still ongoing pandemic. -o- Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health ...

I love the postal service. Not only is it a critical, democratizing public good, it is also important to the community and our health. Support the USPS as a public good. Resist privatization. USPS flat rate box are so generous that even the densest metal won't exceed weight limit . *Corrections: The phrase "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the s...

Do we care about our mothers? US has the worst maternal mortality rate of all economically comparable countries. Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com  -o- Photo Credit: Photo by freestocks on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/ux53SGpRAHU?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medi...

One Health, the approach that connects health of people, animals, and the environment, is on full display when the COVID pandemic struck. Spillover happens when a virus that infects animals crosses over to infect humans, and it happens more often that you think. How can we use One Health principals to prevent future pandemics? Special Guest: Dr. Meghan Davis DVM PhD MPH Twitter: EverythingisPH Ins...

The Bruen decision will go down in history as one of the worst supreme court decisions on guns. We are actively moving backwards at the cost of innocent lives. Gun Violence is Public Health.   Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com        Special Guest: Kelly Roskam JD Refer...

Being a new parent is tough. Not everyone can afford to be stay at home parent. Find childcare is so incredibly tough. Also, that initial bonding time after a new child is introduced to the family is one of the most critical times of raising a child. Paid family leaves supports this. Do we have paid family leave? Twitter: EverythingisPH Instagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.p...

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/EverythingisPH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com     Support the show

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/EverythingisPH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublich...