Everything is Public Health

Happy Holidays Listeners! In this fireside chat episode, we discuss a bit about what finding a career in public health is like. Stay safe out there!-o-Twitter: EverythingisPHInstagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com      Support the show

What is the Nudge principle? And how can we apply it to help people make better choices? References: Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein -o-Twitter: EverythingisPHInstagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com      Photo Credit: Photo by Tim Johnson on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/TW_dKLcR8s4?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show

The "gold standard" of study design, the Randomized Controlled Trial. What is it, and is it really the gold standard? -o-Twitter: EverythingisPHInstagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com          Support the show

Traffic Deaths are preventable. Links: https://visionzeronetwork.org/https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-traffic-fatalitieshttps://www.npr.org/2022/08/25/1119110757/traffic-deaths-car-accident-hoboken-new-jersey-vision-zero?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20220828&utm_term=7170316&utm_campaign=best-of-npr&utm_id=58868046&orgid=725&utm_att1=-o-Twitter: EverythingisPHInstagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com          Photo Credit: Photo by Grillot edouard on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/LzwcTpH9KTY?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Join us by the fire as we chat about our experience applying to public health schools and some of the dos and don'ts of applications! Helpful Resources for applying to a public health program: https://sophas.org/https://aspph.org/-o-Twitter: EverythingisPHInstagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com         Support the show

Our hot takes and chats about diet fads and this never ending attempt to find the single "magic bullet" solution to all of our nutritional issues. Edit: Nutritionism is credited to Gyorgy Scrinis, not Michael Pollan. Yes we are aware that Michael Pollan is problematic. -o-Twitter: EverythingisPHInstagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com        Support the show

There are things beyond calories that we must get from our food. Essential fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins and minerals! And what did they do to bread that made it just a block of nutrition-less carbs? -o-Twitter: EverythingisPHInstagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com       Photo Credit: Photo by Graphy Co on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/a7nl36QsIXc?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkSupport the show

The cousin of sensitivity and specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value is a powerful measure of a diagnostic test. -o-Twitter: EverythingisPHInstagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com      Resources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608333/https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Calculation-of-PPV-sensitivity-specificity-NPV-and-stroke-prevalence-PPV-positive_fig6_281682446Support the show

Why is vision insurance separate from health insurance? -o-Twitter: EverythingisPHInstagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com      Photo Credit: Photo by David Travis on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/aVvZJC0ynBQ?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkResources: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/health-dental-vision-insurancehttps://www.cdc.gov/visionhealth/basics/ced/fastfacts.htmhttps://www.cdc.gov/visionhealth/risk/burden.htmhttps://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/visual-impairment-blindness-cases-us-expected-double-2050https://nanodropper.com/why-vision-isnt-covered-in-your-health-insurance-and-the-inequities-its-causing/Support the show

We all had our fair share of COVID tests by now. When it comes to testing, what is sensitivity and specificity referring to? -o-Twitter: EverythingisPHInstagram: Everything is Public Health Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingispublichealth  Email: EverythingIsPublicHealth@gmail.com     Support the show