
Everything is Public Health
Everything is public health and public health is for everyone.So many things impact our health. The physical things around you, the social interactions, the policies you may never notice, are all quietly there, protecting our health and well-being in subtle ways everyday. This is the world of public health; a science of understanding the countless forces and designing solutions to help prevent or mitigate harm and improve the health and well-being of the people. Public health saved your life today, and you probably didn't notice. https://www.everythingispublichealth.com/
Latest episodes

Jul 2, 2025 • 19min
Building Codes is Public Health - Smoke Alarms, CO Alarms, and Stinky Gas
Smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, and adding odorant to gas are some of the quiet things keeping us save. -o-www.everythingispublichealth.comBluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com Photo credit: Photo by Jalen Hueser on UnsplashSupport the show

Jun 25, 2025 • 26min
Mental Health is Public Health - Gambling Addiction
The explosion in online gambling, sports betting, and fantasy sports is creating a corresponding explosion in problem gambling and gambling addiction. This, unsurprisingly, is bad.-o-Website: www.everythingispublichealth.comBluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com Photo Credit: Photo by Amit Lahav on UnsplashSupport the show

Jun 18, 2025 • 33min
Public Health Explained - Why do conservatives hate the 15 minute city?
The 15 minute city is a simple urban planning concept that prioritizes the people's health and wellbeing, with the added benefit of reducing environmental impact, pollution, and inefficiencies. It is arguably the best way to design an urban space. So why do the conservatives have a full blown moral panic about it? -o-Website: www.everythingispublichealth.comBluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com Photo Credit: Photo by Felix MacLeod on UnsplashSupport the show

Jun 11, 2025 • 44min
Standards - The CDC Injury Center
Regulations are written in blood. Whose blood are we using? The CDC Injury Center has been fully gutted. For the foreseeable future, we will not know what is killing us. This is proactive deregulation, as a lack of evidence of a problem can be used to justify the lack for more rules and policies. Standards is a new series from Everything is Public Health, where we examine all the rules and regulations keeping us safe and healthy, and the deregulation movement working to destroy them. -o-Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth Bluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com Photo Credit: Photo by Harlie Raethel on UnsplashSupport the show

Jun 4, 2025 • 44min
Standards - The Clean Water Act
Regulations are written in blood. Whose blood are we using? Do you like clean water? Do you think dumping raw sewage into rivers and ocean is a good idea? The deregulation movement is targeting clean water, and they are using the courts to do it. Standards is a new series from Everything is Public Health, where we examine all the rules and regulations keeping us safe and healthy, and the deregulation movement working to destroy them.-o-Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth Bluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com Photo credit: Public domain image from WikicommonsSupport the show

May 28, 2025 • 45min
Standards - USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service
Regulations are written in blood. Whose blood are we using? Welcome to Standards, a new series from Everything is Public Health where we examine all the rules and regulations keeping us safe and healthy, and the deregulation movement working to destroy them. The current fascist administration is slashing food safety guardrails. It will cost us. -o-Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth Bluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com Photo Credit: Public Domain image from WikicommonsSupport the show

May 21, 2025 • 45min
Public Health Explained - Universal Healthcare
What is universal healthcare? What is single payer? And what does Luigi have to do with this? Call your representatives: https://5calls.org/-o-Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth Bluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com Photo Credit: Photo by Marek Studzinski on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/a-card-with-a-picture-of-a-man-on-it-next-to-a-stethos-LSCuDR0kcYo?utm_content=creditShareLink&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplashSupport the show

May 14, 2025 • 21min
Light is Public Health - Light Pollution
The skies at night is too damn bright. That's bad for all involved. Also, car headlights are way too bright. -o-Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth Bluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com Photo Credit: Photo by Saad Chaudhry on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/city-skyline-under-blue-sky-during-night-time-oBLgQQjFGaU?utm_content=creditShareLink&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplashReferences:https://darksky.org/https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/light-pollution/Call your representatives: https://5calls.org/Support the show

May 7, 2025 • 31min
Sanitation is Public Health - Trash and Trash Collection
Trash collection is a critical public service, though the real problem is how much trash we generate in the first place.-o-Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth Bluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com Photo Credit: Photo by the blowup on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/black-trash-bin-with-green-leaves-t06aN6vewaQ?utm_content=creditShareLink&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplashReferences: https://environmentamerica.org/center/resources/trash-in-america-2/https://www.npr.org/2024/06/09/nx-s1-4942415/disposable-plastic-pollution-waste-single-use-recycling-climate-change-fossil-fuelsSupport the show

Apr 30, 2025 • 19min
Mini-episode: American is doing The Great Leap Forward (derogatory)
The last time an autocratic government made policy decisions based on pseudoscience, millions of people died. America is on the precipice of doing the same. Policy must be based on science. -o-Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth Bluesky Social: @everythingisPHMastodon: @everythingispublichealth Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com Audio Credit: Capybaralol69, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsSpeech by Joseph Stalin, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsSovietball, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsSupport the show