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Social Justice, Military, and Affordable Care Act: Part 2
September 20, 2013 Other early federal debates led to the provision of health care to the armed forces, naming the public good and satisfaction of economic aims to support the government’s role. It was...
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Social Justice, Workers, and the Affordable Care Act: Part 3
September 25, 2013 In the first two decades of the 20th century, middle class progressives realized that the American industrial society’s working-class citizens suffered ill health and injury through...
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Social Justice, Workers and Congress, and the Affordable Care Act: Part 4
September 30, 2013 It didn’t take long for efforts associated with covering costs associated with worker’s health care to become burdensome. In 1927, the Congressional Committee on Costs of Medical...
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Social Justice, the Unemployed, and the Affordable Care Act: Part 5
October 5, 2013 A fourth event shaping the government’s role in naming access to health and care as political priorities was the Great Depression, 1929-1941. Unemployed workers were unable to pay for...
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The Public Good, Public Health, and the Affordable Care Act: Part 1
October 10, 2013. Political discourse related to naming access to health care as a priority shows expansion to the underserved and needy during the era of the Great Society, when Presidents Kennedy...
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Public Health in the U.S., Public Good, and the Affordable Care Act: Part II
October 20, 2013 Most of us learn at a very young age what “medical doctor” means. Far fewer of us learn what “public health” means. Our nation’s public health system functions largely as a backdrop to...
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What is wrong with this picture of the US Public Health Service and...
October 30, 2013 Click here to view the video on YouTube. Where is “public health” in the credentialing? While being a civil engineer to work on safe and quality water issues makes sense, many of the...
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Public Health and Health Insurance as a Public Good: Part 3
October 30, 2013 While the media has given a lot of coverage to citizens complaining about having to pay for health insurance for pregnancy when they are men or have wives past child-bearing...
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How do different metaphors to define genes relate to understanding?
November 14, 2013 Many of the important messages about health include information about the role of genes for health. Genes matter. Behavior matters. Environments matter. The problem is how to...
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A Book Review: “Deadly Outbreaks” by A.M. Levitt, PhD
December 1, 2013 Phewww. It’s cold outside! This precious pic is my five-year-old grandson snuggled with a furry raccoon stuffed animal and wearing a soft and cuddly raccoon hat. For his nap. He knows...
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I’m back… Living with low vision
April 30, 2016 It has been awhile…. I gave posting a low priority as I learned to deal more and more with a diagnosis of low vision. Never heard of it? Me either. Until I was diagnosed with it. Over...
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Bono and me…my orange lenses are not a fashion statement
May 1, 2016 A new identity. One with which I share something in common with Bono, tho it would take years before I would realize that. After more medical tests than I could keep track of, and literally...
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“Mother Earth living” and turmeric: I tried it and wished FDA regulated the...
May 2, 2016 People living with low vision trip a lot, stumble, and invariably too often fall, leaving them to seek solutions for the effects, which for me included trying turmeric for joint...
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What I saw on the last day I could see
May 3, 2016 Well, you may have heard people talk about–at least in the movies or on TV–what they were doing on a particular day before something significant happened to them or something important...
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Why now?: The point of talking about low vision
May 4, 2016 I retired this past year. It is early, but I could, and so I did. Doing so allows me time to pursue projects I could not otherwise have done. It lets me quit worrying about whether I can...
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My First Low Vision Device–An eye patch: “Ahoy, Matie” [and why pirates wore...
May 7, 2016 I woke up on a lovely Pennsylvania fall Saturday morning and something was not quite right. It took a bit for me to realize that my left eye wasn’t seeing… Well, it was seeing a little....
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The U.S. National Eye Institute’s Intro to Low Vision
May 10, 2016 The National Eye Institute has the following video on the homepage:
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Face mask or food deserts–one in the same?
August 13, 2020 Post Hurricane Hanna, Matagorda, TX Remember when public health folks realized that it doesn’t do much good to promote eating fruits and vegetables if fruits and vegetables are not...
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