Vitality, Self-healing and Ecology: The Flow of Naturopathic Thought Across the United States and India

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-143
Author(s):  
Victoria Sheldon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
South India ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
Environmental Advocacy ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Medical Traditions

For over 5,000 years, the region now known as India has held a rich reservoir of medical systems, each providing distinct orientations towards illness experience, aetiology, cure and prevention. Since the turn of the twentieth century, there has been a considerable rise in the cultural recontextualisation of European and North American medical traditions in South Asia. With a focus on the guiding concepts of vitality, self-healing and ecology, this article maps the transnational trajectories of naturopathy across three sites: its instantiation into the United States’ early 1900s cultural climate of health epidemics and industrialisation; its rearticulation into the context of Gandhian anti-colonial movements in India; and its transformation into a mode of asserting public health and environmental advocacy in contemporary India. After tracing the trajectory of naturopathic thought, this article will provide a practitioner profile of naturopathy Dr Jacob Vadakkanchery as well as a framing of his politicised response to the 2018 floods in Kerala, south India. This particular examination serves as a microcosm of a larger trend: contemporary practitioners in India overtly re-frame naturopathic concepts in relation to immanent environmental and public health concerns.

scholarly journals Defending Density

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Samuelian
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Direct Pathway

We have an aversion to density in America. Density is a continual trope in this country, blamed for all of the ills of urban life, from crime and racial unrest in the middle of the 20th century to public health concerns today. In the early stages of the COVID pandemic density was the culprit, even though we’ve subsequently seen outbreaks in rural areas and sprawling cities across the United States. This paper will look into the root of America’s problems with density and argue that density is not the problem but the solution to the challenges of today’s and tomorrow’s cities. As we deplete the resources of the planet, density is our most direct pathway to recover some balance with nature. Dense living is more efficient, less carbon intensive and more environmentally sustainable. As geospatial differentiations matter less due to advances in communication technology, it's the density of people and ideas that will continue to fuel innovation. Finally, in a world that is increasingly dominated by pluralism, denser living promotes openness, tolerance and diversity.

Characterization of the first carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolate harboring bla SIM-1 from the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catharine Prussing ◽  
Theresa Canulla ◽  
Navjot Singh ◽  
Patricia McAuley ◽  
Michael Gosciminski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Clinical Isolate ◽  
Antimicrobial Therapy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Carbapenem Resistant ◽  
Significant Public Health

The emergence and transmission of metallo-β-lactamases are significant public health concerns that threaten the utility of antimicrobial therapy (1, 2).…

scholarly journals Health Effects and Public Health Concerns of Energy Drink Consumption in the United States: A Mini-Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laila Al-Shaar ◽  
Kelsey Vercammen ◽  
Chang Lu ◽  
Scott Richardson ◽  
Martha Tamez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Energy Drink ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Energy Drink Consumption

scholarly journals Partisan pandemic: How partisanship and public health concerns affect individuals’ social mobility during COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. eabd7204
Author(s):  
J. Clinton ◽  
J. Cohen ◽  
J. Lapinski ◽  
M. Trussler
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Over Time ◽  
At Home

Rampant partisanship in the United States may be the largest obstacle to the reduced social mobility most experts see as critical to limiting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Analyzing a total of just over 1.1 million responses collected daily between 4 April and 10 September reveals not only that partisanship is more important than public health concerns for explaining individuals’ willingness to stay at home and reduce social mobility but also that the effect of partisanship has grown over time—especially among Republicans. All else equal, the relative importance of partisanship for the increasing (un)willingness of Republicans to stay at home highlights the challenge that politics poses for public health.

scholarly journals Commerce, conflict, and contamination: yellow fever in early-independence Veracruz in the US imaginary, 1821-1848

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 779-795
Author(s):  
Beau D.J. Gaitors
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Yellow Fever ◽  
The United States ◽  
Port City ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
The Us

Abstract While commercial links between Mexico and the United States through the port city of Veracruz brought significant economic and social advantages in the early nineteenth century, public health concerns around yellow fever produced fascination and fear among US audiences (in southern and eastern port cities) from times of peace until the US invasion and occupation of Mexico (1846-1848). This article addresses the complex linkages between commerce, conflict, and contamination in reference to the port city of Veracruz and the United States in Mexico’s early decades of independence. More specifically, this article addresses the concern in early nineteenth-century US periodicals around yellow fever outbreaks and potential contamination, showing the constant presence of yellow fever in Veracruz in the US imaginary.

scholarly journals A Stability Indicating HPLC Method to Determine Actual Content and Stability of Nicotine within Electronic Cigarette Liquids

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahima Bansal ◽  
Manisha Sharma ◽  
Chris Bullen ◽  
Darren Svirskis
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
High Performance Liquid Chromatography ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Degradation Products ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hplc Method ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Nicotine Content ◽  
Actual Content

(1) Background: Despite the growing use of e-cigarettes, in most countries, there is no regulation covering manufacturing standards of the solution (‘e-liquid’), leading to concerns over the accuracy of labelling and stability of the products under a range of conditions. Following the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements for manufacture of e-liquids, we aimed to develop a simple high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method to determine nicotine content in nicotine-containing e-liquids, even in the presence of degradation products; (2) Methods: We developed an HPLC method to quantify nicotine in the presence of the two major constituents of all e-liquids, glycerine and propylene glycol, and in the presence of degradation products; (3) Results: Our HPLC method performed strongly and was validated it according to international guidelines. For the e-liquids tested, nicotine content levels were all higher than labelled (up to 117.9 ± 1.87% of the labelled content). While nicotine was shown to be unstable at 60 °C, it was stabilized at this temperature in the e-liquid formulations for up to 10 days; and (4) Conclusions: The HPLC method is suitable for adoption by laboratories to determine the actual content and stability of nicotine-containing products. The higher than labelled nicotine levels in e-liquids raises clinical and public health concerns.

Can increases in Twitter posts predict increases in cumulative incidence of COVID-19 in the United States? Evidence that social media can inform epidemic surveillance. (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruoyan Sun ◽  
Henna Budhwani
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Cumulative Incidence ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Education Attainment ◽  
Public Health Systems ◽  
Per Capita

BACKGROUND Though public health systems are responding rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic, outcomes from publicly available, crowd-sourced big data may assist in helping to identify hot spots, prioritize equipment allocation and staffing, while also informing health policy related to “shelter in place” and social distancing recommendations. OBJECTIVE To assess if the rising state-level prevalence of COVID-19 related posts on Twitter (tweets) is predictive of state-level cumulative COVID-19 incidence after controlling for socio-economic characteristics. METHODS We identified extracted COVID-19 related tweets from January 21st to March 7th (2020) across all 50 states (N = 7,427,057). Tweets were combined with state-level characteristics and confirmed COVID-19 cases to determine the association between public commentary and cumulative incidence. RESULTS The cumulative incidence of COVID-19 cases varied significantly across states. Ratio of tweet increase (p=0.03), number of physicians per 1,000 population (p=0.01), education attainment (p=0.006), income per capita (p = 0.002), and percentage of adult population (p=0.003) were positively associated with cumulative incidence. Ratio of tweet increase was significantly associated with the logarithmic of cumulative incidence (p=0.06) with a coefficient of 0.26. CONCLUSIONS An increase in the prevalence of state-level tweets was predictive of an increase in COVID-19 diagnoses, providing evidence that Twitter can be a valuable surveillance tool for public health.

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