Social History Is Part of Medical History
The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) latest report on health disparities drives home a point that many people are already aware of: income and education impact health. Physic…
About the Blogger
- Charlie Preston is in the final year of a preventive medicine residency at Johns Hopkins. He completed medical school at the University of Pennsylvania and did an internship in medicine at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona-- his hometown. He currently serves as the Vice President for Policy and Education for the resident physician section of the American College of Preventive Medicine. He lives and works in Washington, DC.
Editor's Note: Any views or opinions presented on this blog are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the hospitals, clinics, and institutions where they work, teach, and study.
Recent Posts
The Food Safety Modernization Act, Another Critical Piece of Health Reform
On this blog site, I’ve been asked to write about prevention and health reform. And I am going to do that, but not about prevention and the Affordable Care Act, rather about pr…
T.R. Reid’s “The Healing of America”
A few weeks ago, someone recommended TR Reid’s 2009 book “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care”. I trusted the person,…
Understanding Prevention
Last night, Politico broke a story (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/45976.html) about using health reform’s new $15 billion prevention and public health fund to pay f…
McDonald’s and the Health Insurance Dollar Menu
Recently, the Wall Street Journal made a big splash in the news by reporting that McDonald’s planned to drop health insurance for its workers if it was required to abide by the…
Healthy People and the Affordable Care Act
From the bully pulpit of the White House’s Let’s Move initiative to the billions of dollars invested by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), prevention is getting more high-profile att…
Full National Prevention Council Meets for First Time
One of the most exciting prevention reforms included in the Affordable Care Act is the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council. The full Council, which met f…
