Maryland State Law and CAM Providers
I am lucky enough to be able to afford to be treated by a massage therapist either before or after each REALLY long race that I run. (For me, I classify anything longer than a half marathon as a REALLY...
View ArticleRole of Government in Tanning Salons
As my last entry for my students in the School of Public Health third term course, I'd like them to think about tanning salons. We are nearing spring with lots of opportunities for outdoor recreation...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act
I have not commented on the Affordable Care Act in a while. With the Supreme Court case right now, I think it is worth commenting on again.Yesterday, I saw a public radio program's site asking for...
View ArticleFemale Condom Distribution in Washington DC
The chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was a coauthor on a recent study that was featured in an article in the Washington...
View Article"Americans Still Not Exercising"
I put the title for this week's blog post in quotes as it is the exact title of the article that you can find by clicking here. This is a short piece in the Baltimore Sun that came to my attention...
View ArticleMedicare's Poor Incentivizing
Today's Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health news feed provided a link to an article on what has been described as waste in the Medicare system. The key is that as part of the health care...
View ArticleSome less well known costs of obesity
I've commented many times on obesity over the past couple of years of writing in this blog space. Here is a link to a Baltimore Sun piece about some less well known costs of obesity.The key question...
View ArticleResponse Rates of Emergency Medical Services and Mortality
A recently published article looks at the association between reduced emergency medical system (EMS) response time and the mortality outcomes of patients. You may be asking, "Well, why does it take a...
View Article"My Disease Cost More Than Yours": It Really Depends on What is Counted
In the world of those who advocate for individuals who have a particular disease or condition, one thing that is often discussed is how much a disease costs. In my casual observation as a scientist...
View ArticleIncome Inequality and Health
Some researchers hypothesize that there is a relationship between income inequality and health. The hypothesis suggests that in countries with less income inequality health outcomes will be better....
View ArticleNon-Sedentary Economics
This week a study appeared on sedentary behavior and life expectancy. The conclusions are that if sitting could be limited to less than 3 hours per day and watching television could be limited to less...
View ArticleHospitals Providing Formula
There is an interesting piece in the New York Times about hospitals ending the practice of sending formula home with mothers who are breastfeeding or ending the practice of sending mothers at home with...
View ArticleObesity and the Public Interest
I am teaching a course on Coursera called "Principles of Obesity Economics" which is a mini-version of the online course that I typically teach at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health each summer...
View ArticlePatients "Google" and Get More Out of Visits
Here is an interesting news piece about a study of patients "googling' to get information about their conditions before they go to a general practitioner and then feeling a set of more positive...
View ArticleFlu Shots
First, an admission. I have done research on flu shots. I have helped a student of mine write a dissertation on the timing of flu shots. However, neither I nor anyone in my family has ever had a flu...
View ArticleChanging Medical Practice
In today's newsfeed from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health there is a link to a blog entry about a study that asked medical care leaders why studies that seem to provide strong...
View ArticlePharmaceutical Cost-Effectiveness and Diet
I saw an interesting short piece in the Washington Post discussing the discovery that the number of drugs with important interactions with grapefruit has increased substantially since an initial report...
View ArticleLooking at Statistics in Isolation Can Lead to the Wrong Conclusions
One aspect of public health is violence. For example, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health we have a Center for Gun Policy and Research. And, recently, there has been a lot of...
View ArticleCost-Effectiveness of Preventing Complications of Childbirth
Back on December 10, the Wall Street Journal had an article on the increasing incidence of complications at childbirth and commented on this could be related to the increase in age of the mother in...
View ArticleArticle 5
An article published in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness and discussed in a Washington Postblog suggests that students who are more physically fit get better grades. The article is...
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