I have a Masters in Public Health. I think infectious diseases are the bomb. I'm a beauty-seeker, love food, and adore a good book. Currently living and working in Baltimore (and missing New Orleans and Montreal). I save money only to spend it all as soon as I have enough to travel someplace cool. twitter.com/RaphaelleH

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27th January 2012

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23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? (by DocMikeEvans)

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7th September 2010

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Recommendation 9: Congress, the executive branch, leaders of health care organizations, public and private purchasers, and health informatics associations and vendors should make a renewed national commitment to building an information infrastructure to support health care delivery, consumer health, quality measurement and improvement, public accountability, clinical and health services research, and clinical education. This commitment should lead to the elimination of most handwritten clinical data by the end of the decade.

Crossing the Quality Chasm by the Institute of Medicine, 2001

Ummmm, yeah. Slightly behind on this. We were kinda caught up in other things.

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27th October 2009

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Surgeon General’s Warning:

Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health

Is that, “Quitting smoking NOW greatly reduces serious risks to your health?”

Or is it, “QUITTING SMOKING now greatly reduces serious risks to your health.”

The first being that if you quit right now, you’ll reduce your risk of disease (which is true) and the second implying that it has just now become true that your risk of disease goes down if you stop smoking, whereas before it didn’t.

Hmmm.

Tagged: smokingcigarettesurgeon generalpublic healthhealthdisease

7th April 2009

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Generation Public Health.

This is what public health does. What are you doing?

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