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Public Health Explained - Universal Healthcare
21 May 2025
00:45:19
What is universal healthcare? What is single payer? And what does Luigi have to do with this?
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Maternal Health is Public Health - Maternal Mortality
18 Aug 2022
00:22:07
Do we care about our mothers?
US has the worst maternal mortality rate of all economically comparable countries.
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One Health, the approach that connects health of people, animals, and the environment, is on full display when the COVID pandemic struck. Spillover happens when a virus that infects animals crosses over to infect humans, and it happens more often that you think. How can we use One Health principals to prevent future pandemics?
Special Guest: Dr. Meghan Davis DVM PhD MPH
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Gun Violence is Public Health - One of the Worst Supreme Court Decisions
21 Jul 2022
00:36:22
The Bruen decision will go down in history as one of the worst supreme court decisions on guns. We are actively moving backwards at the cost of innocent lives. Gun Violence is Public Health.
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Family Health is Public Health - Paid Family Leave
07 Jul 2022
00:25:30
Being a new parent is tough. Not everyone can afford to be stay at home parent. Find childcare is so incredibly tough. Also, that initial bonding time after a new child is introduced to the family is one of the most critical times of raising a child. Paid family leaves supports this. Do we have paid family leave?
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Voting is Public Health - Democracy is Public Health
26 May 2022
00:33:51
The problems in our political system is not the faults in the democratic process, but because we have strayed away from the democratic process. Anything that subverts the democratic process (voter suppression, corruption, gerrymandering, etc.) are dangerous.
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USAID is a pillar of US soft power, and critical for countless global health efforts to eradicate human suffering and diseases. Ending it is committing mass murder with extra steps.
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What are medical errors? Why do they occur? And how often do they harm patients?
The place people go to be healed is also where some get hurt.
**EDIT** The 250,000 death from medical errors has been debunked. Real number is much lower, though still not clear. HOWEVER, medical errors is still a serious issue that needs to be addressed.
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We can't fix the plastic pollution problem without killing the source of plastics.
Paper is renewable and compostable. Plastic is not. All that don't use paper because it kills trees is plastic propaganda. Also, use bamboo and glass and metal.
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Public Health in Retrograde - FEMA or large scale disaster response
27 Feb 2025
01:02:32
We are about to witness multiple tragedies, and just how much cognitive dissonance people can have.
A high level government agency like FEMA is the solution to handling large scale disasters, which thanks to climate change will only get more frequent. Gutting FEMA would be a bad idea.
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Abortion Access is Public Health - Banning Abortion Without Banning Abortion
31 Mar 2022
00:45:52
Part 2 of our first discussion about abortion access as a public health concern. In this episode: all the reasons some states use to justify abortion regulations, and why abortion is a public health issue.
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Public Health+ : Why is Abortion Not A Part of The Freedom Conversation?
28 Mar 2022
00:12:43
For better or for worse, freedom has always been a part of the American legal ethos. But when it comes to abortions, all that seems to go out the window. Why?
Digression includes social media feed, going to the sources, and other spicy takes.
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Criminal Justice is Public Health - Justice is Health
10 Mar 2022
00:21:45
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The spirit of public health is about the health of everyone, which means anything at disproportionately affect one community over another is a public health concern. Our criminal justice system is not a fair one, and that has devastating impact on what it means to live in this country.
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Gun Violence is Public Health - Community Violence Prevention
03 Mar 2022
00:28:06
The trauma remains long after the bullets are removed.
When we think of gun violence in America, we either think of mass shootings or gangs and drugs. But that's not an accurate picture of gun violence in this country. A significant portions of gun violence exists in the community, and the majority of gun related deaths are tied to suicides. How can we prevent community violence? How can we tackle this incredibly complicated problem?
Public Health+ : Public Schools Can't Fix Everything
28 Feb 2022
00:14:10
School choice (conservatives) people love blaming everything on public schools. Stop blaming public schools on problems caused by almost a century of concentrated disadvantage.
Public Health in Retrograde - Home Birth and Free Birth
20 Feb 2025
01:07:46
There are people around the world who are forced to give birth with limited OBGYN care and resources, and these people are out there doing it on purpose.
Public Health in Retrograde is a special limited series examining all the public health accomplishment we've made and the current regressive movement trying to undo them.
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Education is Public Health - The Importance of Public Schools
24 Feb 2022
00:24:33
There is a strong connection between educational attainment and health outcomes. Although our education system has faults and flaws, public school is nonetheless an earnest effort to provide everyone with education and future opportunities. In addition, public school is not just a school, but often times a resource for the students, the family, and the community surrounding it. So why do some people want to undermine our already strained system?
Public Health+ : New Zealand's Approach to Phasing Out Cigarettes
21 Feb 2022
00:14:03
"New Zealand will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to eventually phase out smoking.
Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in their lifetime, under a law expected to be enacted next year." - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59589775
More discussion about the tobacco industry and their unethical ways, and Cass gives a therapy session for MJ.
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Poverty is something that underpins so many other social and public health issues. But what exactly is it? How does it affect people's decision making? We cannot discuss public health without first discussing the complete destructive impact poverty have on individuals. Without addressing poverty, we cannot truly achieve health for everyone.
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What is stigma? It is one of those terms that we have all probably heard at one point, but if we are pressed to define it academically, we may struggle to do so. How does stigma on mental illness and substance use disorder affect how are health policies are formed?
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Public Health Infrastructure is Public Health - 5 Reasons Why We Weren't Ready for a Pandemic
27 Jan 2022
00:31:03
What are the components of a good public health infrastructure and why don't we have it?
“The success or failure of any government in the final analysis must be measured by the well-being of its citizens. Nothing can be more important to a state than its public health; the state’s paramount concern should be the health of its people." FDR, 1932
You may have heard of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, but have you heard of 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs?
Food regulations plays an important role in our health and safety. In a capitalistic system where money is highest virtue, it was only a matter of time before something unethical happened. And several unethical things did happen. Thankfully, several expose revealed these awful practices from the food and drug companies, and regulations stepped in the early and mid1900s to prevent these dangerous products from reaching the consumers. What inspired these changes? Two books come to mind.
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On the 27th of May, 2014, The Onion Published one of their most influential article that turned into a whole series. Almost 8 years later, have we learned the lesson? This episode talks about one of the tools to prevent gun violence, the Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO). Tune into to learn more.
Special Guest: Dr. Shannon Frattaroli Twitter: @SF4PublicHealth
Is healthcare is a right? First question, positive right or negative right?
The UN, and a lot of other countries, recognize healthcare as a right, and therefore have enacted some form of universal healthcare. The US however, have not follow this very reasonable trend.
For us, healthcare should be a (positive ) right. Tune in to listen to our debunking of all the arguments against universal healthcare!
Welcome to the show after the show! This is where we let our opinions fly free and chat about the subject openly.