There are probably as many opinions on what constitutes public health as there are people. Is junk food and sugary beverages a public health concern? What about obesity? The former are amenable to individual action, but some public health concerns require collective action. One example is Cholera, a communicable waterborne disease that causes serious diarrhea, often leading to death.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
While Heavy Drinking Is Way UP, Some People Want to Cut Back Becoming Soberish
Since well before the Covid Pandemic, drinking has been climbing. While drinking rose even more due to the stress and uncertainty of covid, it never really came back down.
Saturday Links
- More women and young people are getting cancer, but the overall mortality rate has declined.
- Study: more than four in ten people will develop dementia after the age of 55 – with a lifetime cost of $415,936,
- My favorite headline of 2025: “You Can’t Trust The People Who Say They Hate Civilization To Run It.”
- In 2024 alone, the Biden presidency has cost the economy $1.4 trillion in new regulatory burdens.
- Goodman assesses the Biden presidency.
- Brookings saves Social Security with eat-your-spinach reforms: higher taxes and lower benefits.
Vaccination Rates are Falling, Which Could Lead to Outbreaks of Long Conquered Diseases
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) vaccination is among the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th Century. Here is the problem: many people have stopped getting vaccinated.