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I have no idea what the nonprofit community would do without Rick Cohen of the Nonprofit Quarterly: if there’s an issue affecting nonprofits he’ll have a fresh and useful perspective on it, and this article about the Community Health Needs Assessments required by the Affordable Care Act is no exception. What struck me most was [...]
Archive for the ‘public health’ Category
February 7th, 2013
Category: 501(c)(3), Affordable Care Act, charity, Health Care, Illinois, Innovation, NonProfits, public health, Taxation
February 3rd, 2013
Category: Firearms, public health
Two people out having fun with their friends were murdered yesterday in Texas because their rights, and their friends’ rights, to openly carry adequate firepower have been savaged. If good guys with guns, trained in using them, had been visibly on the scene, this never would have happened, right?
December 27th, 2012
Category: HIV/AIDS, public health
Last week, one of my twitter followers called me to task for writing an entire column on HIV and AIDS without focusing on the huge disparities by race/ethnicity. She was certainly correct about the critical role of such disparities. Yesterday–again on twitter–Chicago commissioner of public health Bechara Choucair drew my attention to an especially pertinent [...]
December 20th, 2012
Category: Economics, public health
A quick post on the cost of smoking v. cost of guns, given the intuitive notion that second hand smoke and violence might be (conceptually) similar. I am not an expert on guns, and this is a quick post, given as food for thought. I have done work on the social cost of cigarette smoking, [...]
December 11th, 2012
Category: public health
A new paper in Health Affairs estimates the impact of smoking cessation on future health care costs among persons covered by TRICARE, taking account of changes in life expectancy.
September 24th, 2012
Before the New York Board of Health’s recent decision to place some restrictions on the purchase of sodas over 160z, the American Beverage Association distributed this postcard all over the city, and they also had delivery trucks painted with the message. I put the card near my computer as a sort of ironic talisman, since [...]
July 4th, 2012
It’s hard to improve policing in the UK because everyone is supposed to pretend to believe that Britain has “the best police in the world.” Sounds like our health care debate, doesn’t it?
June 15th, 2012
CBO has a new report “Raising the Excise Tax on Cigarettes: Effects on Health and the Federal Budget.” The study cites some of the work I have done with colleagues, namely our AJPH paper The Effect of Smoking Cessation for Longevity (2002) and The Price of Smoking (2004). capstone post (with links) for a 4 [...]
June 10th, 2012
Category: public health
Skippy “Natural” Peanut Butter contains the same salt, sugar, and hydrogenated vegetable oil as the regular Skippy no self-respecting peanut butter lover would touch with a ten-foot pole.