by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Jun 20, 2011 | 0 All, Careers, Examples of Public Health
Today’s release of The State of the World’s Midwifery 2011 report ignited discussion and debate about the role of midwives and their impact on maternal deaths. The report estimates that “Nearly 3.6 millions lives could be saved in 58 developing...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | Jun 14, 2011 | 0 All, Careers, Examples of Public Health
Sometimes the best programs are “just” about providing information. For example, for the past 40 years the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s Nutrition Action Healthletter has provided nutrition and other health information to hundreds of...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 31, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
This belongs in the “learn something new and interesting everyday” category. When I think of what epidemiologists do, I tend to think of experts tracking diseases in large communities or highly mobile people. Today, I learned about epidemiology-based...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 30, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Bravo to the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services for reminding people of what they can due to prevent injuries and illness this summer! This is public health promotion (and hopefully prevention) at its best!! Copied from the West Kentucky Star’s...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 27, 2011 | 0 All, Education/Training, Examples of Public Health
The Public Health Problem Some of our manufacturing and other processes contaminate soil with chemicals and other by-products. To motivate people to reduce or prevent soil pollution, we need evidence linking contaminates to negative impacts on health. Evidence is also...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 26, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Many different types of organizations and individuals (public and private) create YouTube videos, webcasts, podcasts, webinars, etc. on public health topics. You can learn something useful about a career field from real world efforts to share information and feature...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 24, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Osteoporosis is called the “silent disease” because it can go undetected until something happens, like a stress fracture. Another challenge for this disease, which affects about 10 million people (80% of whom are women), is that prevention is affected by...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 23, 2011 | 0 All, About Public Health, Examples of Public Health
What is a ResBi, you ask? Starting today, I am taking a new approach to my posts about research. First, I am calling them Research Bites or ResBis for short. Similar to a sound bite, the idea is to use a relatively short amount of words to describe examples of public...
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 19, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have a great blog post about zombies and emergency preparedness. Honest to goodness! Check it!! Well played, CDC :). On a more serious note, this June, Montreal hosts the 3rd North American Congress of Epidemiology....
by Dr. Felicia E. Mebane | May 16, 2011 | 0 All, Examples of Public Health
Who knew that China’s food safety issues would be so popular? I found the story on MSNBC’s website with a byline from the Associated Press. In sum, China is allowing their press more freedom to expose food safety issues. While there is healthy (pun...
