1226 commodified into profit making solutions; or where there is already overwhelming
community support for implementing change, publicity rather than advocacy may be all that …

PART 1: 10 QUESTIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES Most fields of public health
have objectives that are highly contested by opponents. Opposition can come from …

Background Medicines are likely to assume an increasingly important role in helping people
to remain healthy. But there are few indications as to what information and other support …

Scientists, policymakers, and advocates are increasingly advised to use “the public health
approach” to address myriad social issues, from alcoholism and arthritis to vision care and …

Some health leaders and researchers have launched mass prevention programs without
sound biomedical groundwork. They have oversold the benefits of prevention and …

On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound
about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of …

Is the 'harm principle', famously propounded by JS Mill and widely adopted in bioethics, an
appropriate principle to guide public health regulation? The harm principle limits liberty …

Convention holds that government intervention designed to promote population health and
well-being is an unmitigated good. However, government should justify interventions …

Any scientific study addressing the threat of gun violence would involve comprehensive data
collection and unbiased scientific analysis to determine a cause or causes, followed by …

These polarized propositions are at the-~ TE core of mounting controversies over the scope
and mission ofpublic health in general Sit and epidemiology in particular." 5 Reflecting long …