Health
Equitable Public Health
In Precision Community Health, Bechara Choucair offers a four-pillared framework to address historic systemic inequities in public health but fails to confront the power arrangements that undergird them.
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Health - Book Reviews
Innovations in health care policies and programs
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Pragmatic Public Activism
New scholarship on Brazil’s fight for universal health care strikes an optimistic note but is already eclipsed by rapid political change.
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Water & Sanitation
A Cultural View of Sanitation
Ending open defecation isn’t just about building more toilets—it’s also about making sure the culture is receptive to new sanitation practices.
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Learning from Neighborhoods
A new book makes a strong case for connecting healthcare to neighborhoods, but it could focus more on the role of race and ethnicity.
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Only in New York?
City officials under Mayor Michael Bloomberg made advances in public health that were important but hardly unique.
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Design or Disrupt?
The Mayo Clinic achieves patient care improvements through innovation that is incremental rather than disruptive.
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Social Entrepreneurship
When Good Is Just Not Good Enough
The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria by Bill Shore
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Environment
An Environmental Provocateur
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand
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Review: Strong Medicine
The strategic use of vaccines may be the key to spreading infectious diseases in the developing world.