Queering global public places for health and wellbeing

The global fight for smoke-free public places.

November 2, 2004, was a successful day for smoke-free policies in Columbus, Ohio; Lincoln, New Jersey; Copperas Cove, Texas; Winooski, Vermont; Wausau, Wisconsin; and many other cities and towns across the United States. They either upheld smoke-free workplace laws that were under threat or introduced new ones. The spread of these laws follows the recent success seen in New York City where over...

Queering Public Policy: A Canadian Perspective

Public and global engagement with global health.

2066 www.thelancet.com Vol 381 June 15, 2013 Global health is widely regarded as being grounded in public and global engagement. But much of the process of global health is dominated by Northern institutions, expert groups, think-tanks, high-level meetings, and the like. Indeed, the exponential growth of global health in the past decade may soon turn into terminal decline unless truly global an...

Polling places, pharmacies, and public health: Vote & Vax 2012.

US national elections, which draw sizable numbers of older voters, take place during flu-shot season and represent an untapped opportunity for large-scale delivery of vaccinations. In 2012, Vote & Vax deployed a total of 1585 clinics in 48 states; Washington, DC; Guam; Puerto Rico; and the US Virgin Islands. Approximately 934 clinics were located in pharmacies, and 651 were near polling places....

Global public goods and health.

Health improvement requires collective as well as individual action, and the health of poor populations in particular requires collective action between countries as well as within them. Initiatives such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria reflect a growing awareness of this fact. However, initiating, organizing and financing collective actions for health at the global le...