Global health is more than just ‘Public Health Somewhere Else’

Public health is more important than health care.

PUBLIC health practitioners seem to be suffering an identity crisis. Perhaps they have felt ignored and under-funded for so long that they are eager to latch onto anything that includes the word "health." Or perhaps some public health practitioners understand that health care receives 94% of the health services dollars with only 3 % going to public health, so they mistakenly think they should b...

DeSalvo: health IT is 'more than just EHRs'.

ONC was created in 2004 by President George W. Bush to help expand the use of health information technology (IT) across the country. Over the past 10 years, thanks in great part to the enactment of the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) provisions in the American Recovery and Revitalization Act (ARRA), we have passed the tipping point in the adoption of heal...

Public health reasoning: much more than deduction

The deductive paradigm has produced notable successes in epidemiology and public health. But while deductive logic has made a substantial contribution to the public health field, it must be recognized that there are also limits to that contribution. This report examines one such limit: the need for non-deductive models in public health reasoning. The findings of a study of public health reasoni...

Global health is (local) public health.

Environmental Sanitation Crisis: More than just a health issue

THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION CRISIS CANNOT BE DENIED: well over a century after the sanitary revolution in 19th century Europe, 40% of the world's population still lacks access to improved sanitation. Important lessons from the past must be applied today if the crisis is to be averted. Sanitation has suffered from a lack of prioritization for as long as it has remained the poor relation ...