Critical Questions on Mental Health in America
The topic of America’s mental health system and the need to improve it has become a hot topics following the most recent gun violence at an elementary school in Connecticut. Most of what I have heard from the media and politicians is a broad “need to improve mental health.” It is always a very generalized … Read more
real life public health isn’t sexy
The field of public health does not lend itself to being glamorous or satisfying after a full day’s work. I currently work as a Community Health Worker (CHW) in Detroit supporting a NIH funded grant using behavior change techniques to tackle childhood obesity among African-American adolescents. Snapshot: Thursday, December 1st, 2011 After a meeting with … Read more
better health + growing population ≠ societal collapse #7billion
With each additional billion people on Earth, the collective news pundits, academics, development experts, and politicians freak out. Many pundits have been talking about the world’s population hitting 7 billion and how that relates to all the issues that we are seeing today. To many authors, talk show hosts, and even economic and development experts, … Read more
