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We Need a Structural One Health - 1 views

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Disease isn't synonymous with its etiological agent or the map of its victims, whether or not either is placed within a... context that acknowledges the functional ecologies humans, livestock and wildlife share. [This] misses the structural factors underlying pathogen emergence and by virtue of that omission the pathogens' likely reemergence. Every one of the new potentially human-specific influenzas, for instance, have evolved out of industrial poultry and livestock. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Disease isn't synonymous with its etiological agent or the map of its victims, whether or not either is placed within a... context that acknowledges the functional ecologies humans, livestock and wildlife share. [This] misses the structural factors underlying pathogen emergence and by virtue of that omission the pathogens' likely reemergence. Every one of the new potentially human-specific influenzas, for instance, have evolved out of industrial poultry and livestock. "</div>

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Watch "Innovative thinking: Can you be taught?: Roberta B. Ness, MD, MPH@TEDxHouston" V... - 0 views

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"Innovative thinking: Can you be taught?: Roberta B. Ness" (using examples from her field of epidemiology & health)

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Developmental Origins of Health and Disease - 0 views

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NIH white paper & commentaries

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A Kentucky Coal Miner Remembers the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 - 0 views

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Lester Breslow, Who Tied Good Habits to Longevity, Dies at 97 - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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A key figure in the shift from public health of communicable diseases to lifestyle-related life expectancy, but with a socialist commitment.

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Second Cancers Caused by Cancer Treatment - 0 views

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results like "Radiation therapy does not seem to increase the risk of cancer in the opposite breast if the patient is past the age of 45 at the time of treatment. But in women who had radiation therapy before the age of 45, an increased risk is seen 10 years after treatment."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">results like "Radiation therapy does not seem to increase the risk of cancer in the opposite breast if the patient is past the age of 45 at the time of treatment. But in women who had radiation therapy before the age of 45, an increased risk is seen 10 years after treatment."</div>

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Illustrated History of Heart Disease 1825-2015 | Diet Heart Publishing - 0 views

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Includes AHA championing of low fat diet

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Is Sugar Toxic? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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The case against fructose, championed by Lustig.

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Bacterial Genome Sequencing Offers Latest Tool Against Diseases - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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"The questions were: Was it anthrax? If so, was it a genetically engineered bioterrorism strain, or a strain that normally lives in the soil? How dangerous was it? And the answers, Dr. Musser realized, could come very quickly from newly available technology that would allow investigators to determine the entire genome sequence of the suspect micro-organism. " Yet the patient in question had died, his lungs weakened from the welding work he did.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The questions were: Was it anthrax? If so, was it a genetically engineered bioterrorism strain, or a strain that normally lives in the soil? How dangerous was it? And the answers, Dr. Musser realized, could come very quickly from newly available technology that would allow investigators to determine the entire genome sequence of the suspect micro-organism. " Yet the patient in question had died, his lungs weakened from the welding work he did.</div>

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Infection, Contagion, and Public Health in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Imperi... - 0 views

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miasma and contagion co-existed in the past -- they were not mutually exclusive. (are they mutually exclusive nowadays?)

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Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground - Tom Koch - 0 views

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"Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground" (A lot of focus on cholera and Snow's work.)

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Talent Matters - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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very high IQ increases rel. "rsik" for PhDs etc. authors conclude low IQ can get you high performance but it is "relative unlikely" that needs to be parsed out int terms of Pop. Attributable Risk

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">very high IQ increases rel. "rsik" for PhDs etc. authors conclude low IQ can get you high performance but it is "relative unlikely" that needs to be parsed out int terms of Pop. Attributable Risk</div>

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Tools for Innovative Thinking in Science - 1 views

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NIH VideoCast - The changing epidemiology of HPV and cervical cancer: from etiology, to... - 0 views

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America's broken healthcare system - in one simple chart | US news | The Guardian - 0 views

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CFP: Philosophy of Epidemiology, a Special Issue of Synthese - PhilEvents - 0 views

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"kaplanj@oregonstate.edu"

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Tobacco companies tighten hold on Washington under Trump | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

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What Bullets Do to Bodies - The New York Times - 0 views

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Inside the Algorithm That Tries to Predict Gun Violence in Chicago - The New York Times - 0 views

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Publications | Eric Hehman - 0 views

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race police homicide

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"Hehman, E., Flake, J.K., & Calanchini, J. (in press). Disproportionate use of lethal force in policing is associated with regional racial biases of residents. Social Psychological and Personality Science."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Hehman, E., Flake, J.K., & Calanchini, J. (in press). Disproportionate use of lethal force in policing is associated with regional racial biases of residents. Social Psychological and Personality Science."</div>

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