How Journalism's Decline and Misinformation's Rise Are Harming Our Health-and What We Can Do About It
How misinformation erodes public health-and how new media innovations can help create healthier communities. The erosion of local news, the polarization of national media, and the rising flood of misinformation continue to jeopardize public health and trust. In Information Sick, Joanne Kenen, Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD, and Lymari Morales examine ......
Argues that regulation of the substance that creates life and spreads harm is crucial in a post-Roe America Controls on sexual reproduction are so familiar. Check out any authority over human lives - religious, medical, sociopolitical, familial, psychological - and you'll find teachings about what people must, shouldn't, may, and may not do with ......
Why Policies Backfire and How Prevention Thinking Can Change Everything
A bold vision for reimagining harmful public policies through prevention.
Public policies in the United States are built on certain assumptions: that long-term prison sentences deter crime, that corporate profits benefit everyone, that police are the best way to ensure safety, and that meritocracy ensures equal ......
The Complex Reality of Primary Care in the United States
How can we save primary care from collapse and improve health care outcomes?
Primary care in the United States faces an existential crisis. Its value is unchallenged: policy experts argue that the primary care sector is critical to the quality and equity of the health care system. On the other hand, studies show that ......
How community organizations and civic engagement drive the success of global health aid. What makes health-related development assistance truly effective? In How Ordinary People Make Aid Work, Stefan Kruse argues that the answer lies in the power of ordinary citizens. By examining the role of community organizations and social movements, Kruse ......
Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law
How legal regulation of the body is practiced and justified Regulating the Body examines the practice of legal regulation of the body and how it has been justified. The essays in this anthology trace the ideological, moral, and religious arguments for increasing the reach of regulation and authorizing punishment for infractions. Bringing ......
Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law
How legal regulation of the body is practiced and justified Regulating the Body examines the practice of legal regulation of the body and how it has been justified. The essays in this anthology trace the ideological, moral, and religious arguments for increasing the reach of regulation and authorizing punishment for infractions. Bringing ......
Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare
Examines how health policy shifts fail to fully serve immigrant communities due to structural racism and anti-immigrant rhetoric and enforcement measures. Despite progressive policy strides in health care reform, immigrant communities continue to experience stark disparities across the United States. In Not All In, Tiffany D. Joseph exposes the ......
Deaths from preventable diseases have decreased life expectancy in the United States for the first time in a century, making it clear that we must deal with the crisis by embracing prevention as our nation's top health sector priority. In Prevention First, Dr. Anand K. Parekh, chief medical advisor of the Bipartisan Policy Center, argues that ......
