Public Health Tidbit - Week 4 by Lauren von Klinggraeff https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4 en-us 2018-05-28 17:06:26 UTC 2018-07-14 01:00:18 UTC hello@padlet.com Lauren Davis-June 25, 2018 Race/Class/Gender/ Society https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268508005 NPR's TED Radio Hour Podcast - Episode from May 17, 2018 - Inspire to Action.   What motivates us to take up a cause, follow a leader, or create change? This hour, TED speakers explore stories of inspirational leadership, and what makes some movements more successful than others. 

I found this episode interesting as it really dug into how we as a society gravitate towards certain causes/movements & how they impacted us - from Dr Martin Luther Kings to Emma Gonzales, survivor of the recent Florida school shooting. ]]> 2018-06-25 20:11:27 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268508005 Hadley Kelly -June 25, 2018- Mental, Social, Emotional, Behavioral Health h_lessard413 https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268508671 Defining the scope of emotional health and how to strengthen one’s personal wellbeing is illustrated by Tanya Peterson in the article titled, “What is emotional Health? And how to improve it?” This article examines the common misconception between emotional health and mental health and how to distinguish the two. Peterson continues to discuss tips for strengthening ones emotional health and key benefits in doing so. 
 
Peterson, T. (2015, October 13). What is Emotional Health? And How To Improve it? Retrieved from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-illness-overview/what-is-emotional-health-and-how-to-improve-it
]]> 2018-06-25 20:20:59 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268508671 Arianna Roberts, June 25, 2018, Laws/Policies/Politics https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268529629 Pharmaceutical research has shown that cannabidiol (CBD) from marijuana can successfully treat epilepsy. In a groundbreaking move, the FDA has approved the first drug containing CBD. This approval is not only important for clinical treatment, but also for law and policy. Specifically, and as stated in the article, CBD has historically been considered a Schedule 1 substance, however this new approval may mean that the DEA will change that.]]> 2018-06-26 00:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268529629 Jon Windsor 06/25/2018 Non-infectious/Lifestyle diseases https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268541326 "Two Common Strains Of Virus Linked To Alzheimer's Disease" is a very compelling article that outlines a correlational study between Human Herpes Virus and Alzheimer's disease. Although this could fall under the "infectious diseases" category, Alzheimer's is traditionally thought to be a disease caused by certain lifestyle choices, including or excluding a genetic predisposition. So the potential that there could be other extraneous factors contributing to the onset of this disease could prove beneficial to developing newer treatments.

]]> 2018-06-26 02:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268541326 Alyssa Valentine 6/26/2018 Law/Policies/Politics https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268624864 The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed in 2010 and is the first update to food safety since the 1930s. I heard about this new law from a small farmer in southern Colorado who was outraged at the new regulations. The cost of implementing these new regulations will significantly impact the smaller farmers potentially putting many out of business or preventing many from entering in the first place. I found it shocking that the impact on food safety would be minimal compared to the repercussions on farmers. ]]> 2018-06-26 16:29:37 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268624864 Tess Santangelo 6/26/18 Race/Class/Gender/Society https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268636215 This TED talk, “Let’s put birth control back on the agenda”, was done by Melinda Gates in Spring 2012 and brings attention to the inequalities in birth control. She suggests giving all women access to birth control is a simple approach that could be a catalyst to social change and inequality that is present around the world. This ability to choose when to have children and possibly choose to have smaller families has the potential to create increases the children’s health, the parents’ health, and children’s education.

]]> 2018-06-26 18:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268636215 Hunter Hudson, June 26th, Environmental Health https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268637311 This article is about a diabetes drug that is becoming more and more prevalent in the water supply. The problem with the drug is that it is feminizing fish and disrupting their fertility. This could have impacts on human population particularly on how the drug, metformin, could be a potential endocrine disrupting chemical with impacts on human fertility as well. 

]]> 2018-06-26 18:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268637311 Aspen Becker, 6/26/18, Environmental Health https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268638384 This article discusses the ways in which climate change is specifically impacting Denver. Such as, more high heat days and more frequent drought and flood events. As well, it goes into detail about what Denver is trying to do to combat these issues, like receiving the Bloomberg Philanthropies grant, and what you can do to help as a resident of Denver.]]> 2018-06-26 19:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268638384 Jimmy Winslow 6/26/18 Mental/Social/ Emotional/Behavioral Health james_r_winslow https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268644878 This Ted Talk illustrates how depression is one of the best documented problems but least discussed. Kevin describes how people are so much more willing to help people with physical injuries but stigmatize mental ones. He believes that the more we are willing to talk about mental health problems, the more we will accept it not as an identity or weakness but as a illness just like any other one.]]> 2018-06-26 20:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268644878 Clare Mikhail-June 27, 2018 https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268779908 Infectious/Communicable Diseases
In his first interview as the head of the CDC, Robert Redfield, MD, touches on many topics including HIV/AIDS prevention and pandemics. Dr. Redfield says his top priority is to protect Americans from major global epidemic threats, namely pandemic flu and antimicrobial resistance. 

]]> 2018-06-27 20:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268779908 Laura Cornwell - June 28, 2018 https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268873516 Infectious/Communicable Disease

In this This American Life Podcast, the host dives into the power of Gossip. While we may not often think of gossip as a "good/beneficial" cultural interaction, Act One of the podcast tells the story of sociologist Susan Watkins's study of how Malawians are using gossip to determine who is safe to date or marry in a country ravaged by HIV and AIDS. The study also involved asking locals to document any "rumors" that they heard relating to HIV and AIDS in the community.

]]> 2018-06-28 14:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268873516 Joshua Morrison https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268879384 Environmental Health
June 28, 2018
New research suggests that storms, intensified by climate change, will have a big impacts on the world's fisheries, particularly off the coast of the coast of the UK. The world's fisheries contribute to the economy of developed nations, but also provide food for those in developing areas. The world's fisheries support "12% of the global population and 38 million fishermen and women." These researchers even make the bold claim that storms will have a greater impact on fish populations than ocean warming - also caused by global climate change. ]]> 2018-06-28 15:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268879384 Rick DeVoss June 28. 2018, Race/Gender/Society https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268902939 This article from Kaiser Health News highlights the situation where eligible children are not receiving health benefits due to fear from their immigrant parents. In a particularly tense time within the immigrant community and with fears at an all time high, it is no surprise that enrollment is down among these children. After all, the conversation for obtaining medicaid contains very personal questions parents can easily view as setting themselves up for deportation. ]]> 2018-06-28 20:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268902939 Kaci Pickett 6/28/18 Infectious/ Communicable Diseases https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268925916 This is an interesting perspective on pathogenic diseases from an evolutionary biologist's perspective. He uses the specific example of the spread of "germs" that cause diarrhea. ]]> 2018-06-29 02:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268925916 Patrick Ryan 6/28/2018 Non-infectious/lifestyle disease https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268944714 This story from NPR describes how pharmaceutical companies have significantly cut back on payments to physicians in marketing opioid pain medications in an effort to curb the opioid epidemic. While this is encouraging to see it demonstrates the tremendous behavior modification that pharmaceutical payments can make. It seems important that scrutiny of pharmaceutical payments to physicians is necessary to prevent undue bias so that patients receive high quality, evidence based care. ]]> 2018-06-29 06:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268944714 Cammera Fisher- June 29th-Laws/Policies/Politics https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268999835 This website notes current state policies for opioid prescriptions. States like Florida and Michigan passed policies just yesterday to limit the number of days a patient with acute issues would be on opioid medications to 3 and 7 days respectively. Other states, however, (Colorado included) do not have statutory limits. This shows that opioid control, while getting stricter, depends a lot on the state you live in and physician discretion. ]]> 2018-06-29 20:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/268999835 Sari Ennis- June 29th- Mental/Social/Emotional/Behavioral Health https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/269006160 This article discusses how in New York in health courses students will be given information and material on how to deal with mental health issues. I think that this is a really important move by the educational system to acknowledge mental health issues and help give student information and tools. There is one million dollars in grants to help develop the curriculum. This goes a long way to helping address the mental health of the people and finally starts to address it at a younger age. This will hopefully make it less of a taboo or sigma and help get adolescents even more help and resources for dealing with mental illness.

]]> 2018-06-30 00:25:48 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/269006160 Melissa Lowe 6/30/2018 Laws/Policies/Politics https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/269018765 The Trump Administration cut the EPA's budget by an additional 24% in February which means that there will be fewer funds available for supporting research in endocrine disrupting substances and computational toxicology]]> 2018-06-30 08:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/269018765 Melissa Lowe- June 30th Law/Policies/Politics https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/269018878 This article discusses a current lobbying effort in Colorado to raise the age to purchase tobacco products to 21 in an effort to combat the high levels of vaping in Colorado among teenagers. Colorado is 13th in the nation for e-cigarette use among teenagers according the CDC. Many teenagers start vaping before they turn 18 but the thought is that raising the age to purchase will keep more tobacco from reaching younger consumers. ]]> 2018-06-30 08:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/269018878 Emma Jones - 7/1 - Environmental Health https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/269098703 Wastewater can be used for irrigation though it may contain chemicals and promote water overuse. Countries are wanting to do this due to water shortages but there aren't many standards in place for testing this water and where it can be used.]]> 2018-07-01 23:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/269098703 Sierra Svendsen - 7/1/18 - Non-infectious/Lifestyle diseases https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/269118478 This article from NPR does a recent review of scientific studies that discuss whether artificial sweeteners actually help people lose weight. Artificial sweeteners are commonly used around the US but little is known about the advertised effect of weight loss.]]> 2018-07-02 04:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/269118478 Hiba Abualama, 7/2/2018 Mental/Social/ Emotional/Behavioral Health https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/269201157 Description:Jennifer Bourne, RGN Queens Nurse and Project Manager for FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)Prevention Programme, and Amanda O'Donovan, Consultant Clinical Pychologist, discuss the impact of FGM on mental health.]]> 2018-07-02 23:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/l_vonklinggraeff/week4/wish/269201157