Everything is Public Health

"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/EverythingisPH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com        Photo Credit...

A follow-up on your poverty episode. Why does it cost money to be poor? -o-  Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com       Support the show

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/EverythingisPH Pat...

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

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

 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/Everythin...

Is the FDA trying to hard to be friends with the things they are suppose to be regulating?  -o- Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com     Support the show

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...

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

 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: @SF4P...

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 healt...

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/EverythingisPH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com    Photo credits: Photo by...

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/EverythingisPH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmai...

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

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...

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/EverythingisPH Patreon: htt...

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:agnBw3bTWWmx...

What is induced demand?  Why do more houses lead to higher prices?  -o- Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com       Support the show

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

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

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 l...

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

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

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: ht...

A quick bonus episode about statistics and its misuses. What's the difference between statistically significant and practical significance? -o- Twitter: https://twitter.com/EverythingisPH Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth   Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com   Support the show