Fwd: Top Five Public Health Priorities for the Year 2002 (fwd)
Laura Larsson
larsson at u.washington.edu
Thu Nov 1 09:57:34 PST 2001
Friends:
A followup message from a colleague.
Regards,
Laura Larsson
NLM Informatics Fellow, OHSU
and
Clinical Faculty
Health Services, University of Washington
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Top Five Public Health Priorities for the Year 2002
To: DL16 at umail.umd.edu
From: ptetreau at unlnotes01.unl.edu
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:36:00 -0600
Dan has some good comments. In addition, there are many documented negative
effects for sexual minorities based on the experience/eality of prejudice
and discrimination which includes the area of health provision and
education. I notice that we are not included in this top 5 list which comes
as no surprise. What has surprised me recently is the attention given to
LGBT issues by the APHA (a recent edition on this issue sold out) and by
the AMA.
Pat
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Priorities for the =
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Why would APHA's number one health problem be bioterrorism when it shou=
ld
be the varieties of "Horrendous Death (HD)," defined as those deaths ca=
used
by people where the motivation is to kill others? Examples include deat=
h
resulting from conventional, biological-chemical and nuclear war and
terrorism; intentional environmental assaults; homicide; directly as a
result of racism, genocide, etc. Include also that type of HD where the=
murderous motivation is lacking: Unintentional environmental degradatio=
n,
accidents, drug use, indirectly as a result of racism, etc. Since they =
are
caused by people they are all preventable.
Bioterrorism is the HD threat today. It has clouded the significant thr=
eat
posed by the others especially thermonuclear terrorism and war, and
environmental assaults and degradation.
A related question: Where is health promotion/health education (HP/HE) =
in
all of this -- especially bioterrorism, war and the other forms of HD? =
At
the recent APHA conference the sessions having to do with bioterrorism =
and
war were mostly sponsored by the Peace Caucus. They were packed. I foun=
d
nil sponsored by PHPHE. I always thought that the purview of HP/HE was =
(or
should be) preventing that which causes premature mortality, morbidity =
and
suffering?
Please do not rationalize that the conference program and its sessions =
were
determined before September 11th. For years I have been sending proposa=
ls
to the Public Health Promotion and Health Education section review
committee that included speakers like Barry Levy and Kathy Roe only to =
be
turned down. Isn't it time for PHPHE (and for that matter, SOPHE) to ge=
t
with it?
By the way it does not take a genius to predict that another great prob=
lem
looming on the horizon will be increasing, internal social fragmentatio=
n
along class lines as the economy weakens and greater sums of money are
spent on defense, corporate bailouts (that is corporate welfare), etc. =
As
everyone knows the health and economic disparities were great before
September 11th. Does anyone expect them to improve during the war and
foreseeable future? And how will the those on the short end of the stic=
k
respond?
Dan
Mary McCall wrote:
Subject: Top Five Public Health Priorities for the Year 2002
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:55:00 -0500
From: Ray Thomas <Ray.Thomas at apha.org>
To: "'affiliate-l at liststar.apha.org'" <affiliate-l at liststar.apha.org>
Affiliate Members: Below, please find the APHA Top Five public health
priorities (in sequential order) as approved by the Governing Council f=
or
the year 2002.
American Public Health Association's
Top Five Public Health Priorities for the Year 2002
The APHA Governing Council has adopted as the Association's Top Five
priorities for the year 2002 the following public health categories:
1.Bioterrorism
2.Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
3.Childhood Obesity
4.Elimination of Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities
5.Opposing War in Southwest Asia
The "Theme" for next year's 130(superscript: th) APHA Annual Meeting, a=
s
approved by the Governing Council is:
"Putting the Public Back in Public Health"
--
Dr. Daniel Leviton
Director, The Adult Health & Development Program
Professor, Dept. Public & Community Health
College of Health & Human Performance
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-2611
Phone: (301) 405-2528; Fax: (301) 445-1546
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