The last century was quite a good one for health. This is largely due to advances in public health, though there is at least one bright spot in the area of medical science: the treatment of cardiovascular disease. There are a few other bright spots too; along with cardiovascular treatments, David Cutler points to early […]
Austin Frakt
Austin Frakt is a health economist and an assistant professor at Boston University's School of Medicine and School of Public Health. He blogs at The Incidental Economist.
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The Puzzling Role and Nature of Media
Does the media influence policy? (And if so, how?) Or does the political process rule (or use) the media? What’s the appropriate role of media with respect to policy? What is “media” these days anyway? Should it be the arbiter of facts? I wrote these questions and most of the post below before today’s brouhaha […]
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It’s Been a Great Century
Sure, the century could have been better and the next one could be even better still, but it is remarkable how far we’ve come. The figures for the chart below and the quotes that follow it are from Rick Mayes’ and Thomas Oliver’s JHPPL paper Chronic Disease and the Shifting Focus of Public Health: Is […]
