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

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.

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Defending Density

10.20944/preprints202103.0175.v1 ◽

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.

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

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy ◽

10.1128/aac.01066-21 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Catharine Prussing ◽

Theresa Canulla ◽

Navjot Singh ◽

Patricia McAuley ◽

Michael Gosciminski ◽

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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).…

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The producer benefits of implicit fossil fuel subsidies in the United States

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.2011969118 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 118 (14) ◽

pp. e2011969118

Author(s):

Matthew J. Kotchen

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

United States ◽

Natural Gas ◽

Health Effects ◽

Fossil Fuel ◽

The United States ◽

Net Income ◽

Financial Benefit ◽

Fuel Subsidies ◽

Fossil Fuel Subsidies

This paper estimates the financial benefits accruing to fossil fuel producers (i.e., the producer incidence) that arise because of implicit fossil fuel subsidies in the United States. The analysis takes account of coal, natural gas, gasoline, and diesel, along with the implicit subsidies due to externalized environmental damages, public health effects, and transportation-related costs. The direct benefit to fossil fuel producers across all four fuels is estimated at $62 billion per year, a sum calculated due to the higher price that suppliers receive because of inefficient pricing compared to the counterfactual scenario where environmental and public health externalities are internalized. A significant portion of these benefits accrue to relatively few companies, and specific estimates are provided for companies with the largest production. The financial benefit because of unpriced costs borne by society is comparable to 18% of net income from continuing domestic operations for the median natural gas and oil producer in 2017–2018, and it exceeds net income for the majority of coal producers. The results clarify what the domestic fossil fuel industry has at stake financially when it comes to policies that seek to address climate change, adverse health effects from local pollution, and inefficient transportation.

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The Public Health Effects of Legal Abortion in the United States

Family Planning Perspectives ◽

10.2307/2135120 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 26 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Christopher Tietze

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

United States ◽

Health Effects ◽

The United States ◽

Legal Abortion ◽

The Public

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

Science Advances ◽

10.1126/sciadv.abd7204 ◽

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.

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

História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos ◽

10.1590/s0104-59702018000400010 ◽

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.

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