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New Market Pushes Healthy Eating in "Food Desert" of Avondale
No full textResidents of one Cincinnati neighborhood are working to turn their community from a "food desert" into an oasis of healthy food. A food desert is an area with a lot of people - without access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Local 12's Angela Ingram explains how organizers plan to turn a small market into a full scale farmer's market
Can Noncommunicable Diseases Be Prevented? Lessons from Studies of Populations and Individuals
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Personalized Therapeutics: A Potential Threat to Health Equity
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Using A New Twist On Enterprise Zones To Eliminate Health Disparities
No full textThe Maryland General Assembly is considering a series of bold initiatives that have been proposed to reduce and eliminate health disparities, especially in our most underserved communities. The recommendations come from a 13-member Health Disparities Workgroup that I chaired at the request of Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown. The workgroup is a diverse panel of experts in health disparities, physicians and scientists, and leaders in public health, government and business.
While Maryland has some of the best hospitals and healthcare facilities in the nation, and the third highest median household income, our state continues to have high rates of health disparities and health outcomes. African-American Marylanders, who are almost twice as likely to lack health insurance as white Marylanders, have infant mortality rates that are almost three times higher and an HIV infection rate that is almost 12 times higher than the white population in the state. These disparities pose a
Making the Connection Between Zoning and Health Disparities
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The Leap of Faith from Disease Treatment to Lifestyle Prevention: The Genealogy of a Policy Idea
No full textSince the 1970s public health policy has attempted to counter the rise of chronic diseases by getting individuals to make healthy choices about smoking, alcohol, diet, and physical exercise. Inspired by the so-called new perspective of the 1974 Lalonde report, this shift from disease treatment to prevention has been a key focus of public health policy to this day. Every generation of public health reports presents prevention as the answer to past failures, but the continuous experience of failure is strangely coexistent with a fundamental belief in the ability of lifestyle prevention to produce large health improvements. The article tracks the genealogy of lifestyle prevention as policy idea across three generations of U.S. and Danish public health reports and finds a systematic interpretation of lifestyle prevention as being more successful and promising than acute medical treatment
Prevention Spending
No full textArticle in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (2012), 37(2), p. 329-34