Keep Out!

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Illingworth ◽  
Wendy E. Parmet
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Disability Discrimination ◽  
Stigma And Discrimination ◽  
Health Related

Humans have long blamed immigrants and outsiders for epidemics. This perceived association between newcomers and disease has led many nations to impose health-related immigration controls that screen newcomers for disease and disability and deny entry to many newcomers on health and disability-related grounds. In the United States, quarantine and other such policies began in the nineteenth century, and were long influenced by both racism and eugenics; more recently, many nations around the globe have imposed travel bans, barring entry by people who are HIV positive. Nations also perpetuate disability discrimination, excluding immigrants with a range of disabilities on the theory that they will be unproductive and costly to taxpayers. These health- and disability-related immigration exclusions fail to protect public health and reinforce stigma and discrimination against immigrants and natives with disabilities.

Online Well-Being Focused Curriculums

2017 ◽  
pp. 1415-1429
Author(s):  
Michelle Lee D'Abundo ◽  
Stephen L. Firsing III ◽  
Cara Lynn Sidman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United States ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Behavior Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Health Related

Education and health are among the most salient issues facing Americans today. The field of public health has moved away from a physical health medical model to a more well-being focused quality-of-life perspective. K-20 curriculums in the United States need to reflect this ideological shift. In this chapter, content-focused curriculums with process-focused health behavior change-oriented learning are proposed as a strategy to promote well-being. Other issues that need to be addressed in the current education system are that the delivery of health-related curriculums is often inconsistent and taught by untrained personnel. Well-being-focused curriculums delivered online can provide consistency to improve the quality of health courses. This innovative approach has the potential to improve educational and health outcomes for K-20 curriculums while addressing public health issues by promoting well-being and quality-of-life for children and adults throughout the United States.

Saving the Babies

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-144
Author(s):  
Dána-Ain Davis
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Premature Birth ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Consideration ◽  
Public Health Professionals

In the nineteenth century, the United States began to address its embarrassingly high rates of infant and maternal mortality, and later premature birth rates, in earnest. Those efforts have often been racially disparate. Using a critical racial lens, this chapter explores the uneven racial outcomes of the technologies of saving, or strategies used to save infants and mothers. A number of programs, policies, and scientific advancements, including the development of NICUs, have facilitated the development of saving interventions. The exploration of saving begins with the founding of the Children’s Bureau in 1912 and the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1916 and concludes with the use of NICUs. This chapter shows that the interventions have not been as successful for Black as for white infants and mothers, once again illustrating the racial politics of reproduction. Special consideration is given to the critique of NICU technology, about which both medical and public health professionals raise questions concerning how NICUs overshadow other forms of addressing prematurity.

Treating Cancer as a Public Health Ethics Issue

2019 ◽  
pp. 535-546
Author(s):  
Yonaira M. Rivera ◽  
Otis W. Brawley
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Cancer Burden ◽  
The Social ◽  
Distribution Of Resources ◽  
Health Related

Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the United States. Social and structural inequalities and poor public health infrastructure, low-quality treatment, and lack of patient engagement in health-related decision-making increase the cancer burden among some populations. This chapter details ethical challenges to alleviating the cancer burden due to these health disparities from a public health perspective. Specific challenges relate to the just distribution of resources (resource allocation), balancing clinician judgment with respect for patient autonomy, medical paternalism, and reducing the social inequalities that contribute to disparities in cancer diagnosis and outcomes. This chapter discusses these challenges in relation to cancer prevention, screening, and treatment. The focus is on the United States, but many of the issues raised are relevant to other high-income countries.

scholarly journals Holding Death at Bay vs. Prolonging Life: Indexing Fatalism and Optimism in the Ideology of Health, Genetics, and Family History in the U. S. and South Korean Media

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo Hong ◽  
Susan Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
South Korea ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The U.S

Media discourse creates and shapes views of personhood, of possibilities, of wellness, and at the same time, these views and beliefs, in their turn, shape media discourse. Broadcasts of health-related edutainment programs and advertisements are rich sources for the discovery of stances concerning health and illness. We examine media discourse in the United States and South Korea, and uncover consistent indexical patterns pointing to overall ideologies of fatalism in the U.S. and optimism in South Korea. Specifically, from an indexicality-based perspective, we identify the patterned ways in which the ideologies of fatalism and optimism are indexed with regard to agency and stance. We provide evidence of the culturally distinct patterns of discourse that construct health and illness in the U.S. and South Korean media. In the U.S., heart disease and cancer are threats, medicines are omnipotent, and physicians, omniscient. “Death” is explicit and medicines and physicians hold it at bay. Korean discourse frames “life” as explicit underscoring efforts by doctors and medicines to prolong and enhance it. Implications associated with public health discourses employing diverse discursive strategies are discussed.

Online Well-Being Focused Curriculums

2014 ◽  
pp. 714-728
Author(s):  
Michelle Lee D'Abundo ◽  
Stephen L. Firsing III ◽  
Cara Lynn Sidman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United States ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Behavior Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Health Related

Education and health are among the most salient issues facing Americans today. The field of public health has moved away from a physical health medical model to a more well-being focused quality-of-life perspective. K-20 curriculums in the United States need to reflect this ideological shift. In this chapter, content-focused curriculums with process-focused health behavior change-oriented learning are proposed as a strategy to promote well-being. Other issues that need to be addressed in the current education system are that the delivery of health-related curriculums is often inconsistent and taught by untrained personnel. Well-being-focused curriculums delivered online can provide consistency to improve the quality of health courses. This innovative approach has the potential to improve educational and health outcomes for K-20 curriculums while addressing public health issues by promoting well-being and quality-of-life for children and adults throughout the United States.

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 Science Policy to Advance a Climate Change and Health Research Agenda in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 7868
Author(s):  
Jaime Madrigano ◽  
Regina A. Shih ◽  
Maxwell Izenberg ◽  
Jordan R. Fischbach ◽  
Benjamin L. Preston
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Knowledge Gaps ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Climate Change And Health

Climate change is thought to be one of the greatest public health threats of the 21st century and there has been a tremendous growth in the published literature describing the health implications of climate change over the last decade. Yet, there remain several critical knowledge gaps in this field. Closing these gaps is crucial to developing effective interventions to minimize the health risks from climate change. In this commentary, we discuss policy trends that have influenced the advancement of climate change and health research in the United States context. We then enumerate specific knowledge gaps that could be addressed by policies to advance scientific research. Finally, we describe tools and methods that have not yet been fully integrated into the field, but hold promise for advancing the science. Prioritizing this advancement offers the potential to improve public health-related policies on climate change.

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