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Public Health 2.0: Electric Boogaloo
Using Twitter, researchers were able to predict influenza in their population. The red line is predicted rates, the black line is the actual rate. The vertical line separates training from predicted...
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Selling Science: Marketing Public Health Messages
Think about the most recent message you heard on TV. If you’re like me and watch a lot of sports it probably had something to do with going “All in for Week 1.” Alternatively, maybe you’re thinking...
View ArticlePublic-Private Partnerships: A contentious issue that demands discussion
An issue that keeps coming up at conferences I’ve been at lately has been the role of industry in public health. It’s an interesting question, as funding for prevention requires a level of political...
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On Men’s Health and Moustaches
In Canada, the top three causes of death for men are cancer (31.1%), heart disease (21.6%) and unintentional injuries (5.0%). The top two are the same for women, although with slightly different...
View ArticleMy doctor is out to get me!
So maddening I must tweet again: Nearly half of Americans subscribe to a medical conspiracy theory http://t.co/drVFCA2cj7 Grrrrr… — Timothy Caulfield (@CaulfieldTim) March 22, 2014 An article from JAMA...
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Going to #CPHA2014
The 2014 CPHA conference will be held in Toronto, ON | Picture courtesy WikimediaCommons Next week, I (Atif) will be heading to the Canadian Public Health Association Conference, where I’ll be...
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“Oh no! What happened?”“W220.2XD: Walked into lamppost, subsequent encounter.”
Last week, I ran across this very entertaining piece over in Healthcare Dive about the new ICD-10 codes. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is an incredibly useful tool in public health...
View ArticleImmigrant youth to Canada are less active than Canadians, but only for a...
Regular readers of the blog and my Twitter profile will know that my PhD dissertation is focused on the health of young people to Canada. In particular, I’m interested in how their health changes over...
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Will Google’s new health search function change the way we manage health?
Google says that one in twenty searches is for health information (1). For many people, the Internet has become the first port of call when a strange symptom, the common cold, or morbid curiosity in...
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The ‘autism epidemic': increasing cases or increasing diagnoses?
“Increase in autism diagnosis” by fightingautism.org – Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons An interesting new study was recently published in the British Medical Journal about the...
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Level up! Mr Epid is now Dr Epid!
My old lab got me a cake to celebrate! I’m back! I took an extended hiatus from the blog while I finished up my PhD, but, at the end of March, I successfully defended my PhD, and after making the...
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Who is public health?
Sarah Mittermaier, Communications Specialist Jessica Berthold, Communications Manager Ed Note: Please welcome Jessica Berthold and Sarah Mittermaier to the blog today. Jessica Berthold is...
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The problem with P values: defining clinical vs. statistical significance
The problem with P values Today we warmly welcome guest writer Sean Sinden to PLOS Public Health Perspectives. His biography is at the end of the post. The practice of null hypothesis testing has...
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Using Video Games to Model Real Life Outbreaks
Those of you who know me know that I’m a video game nerd. And comic book nerd. And just nerdy nerd in general. So when I read an article that used World of Warcraft to model disease outbreaks, I jumped...
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The ‘Dad Bod’ Explained: A Study of Weight Gain during Fatherhood
The ‘Dad Bod’ | Image source: Flickr Does a woman’s pregnancy affect the weight of her partner? And is weight gain sustained while the kids grow up? Anecdotally, many people would undoubtedly say yes...
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Everything you need to know about social determinants of health you can learn...
It’s that time of year again. Summer is ending, undergrads are flooding university campuses, and people are moving. When people move, a few things become mandatory, for example, pizza or some other...
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Getting a ‘hint’ about social inequalities in cancer information seeking
Who searches for cancer information? Have you ever searched for information about cancer? Chances are, if you have, it was a Google search that led to a website like WebMD, the Mayo Clinic, or a...
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PLOS Public Health Perspectives Reader Survey
Help us do science! PLOS Public Health Perspectives has teamed up with researcher Paige Brown Jarreau to create a survey of our readers. By participating, you’ll be helping us to improve Public Health...
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Taking Action: Small Victories with Big Impacts
Ed Note: Today, we’re happy to welcome Jenn Lau to the blog. More information about Jenn can be found at the bottom of this post. Picture from Flickr user Pascal (pasukaru76). Click for source. The...
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Top public health documentaries of 2015
Looking for some intellectually stimulating downtime over the New Year weekend? In no particular order, we’ve collated a list of good documentaries relevant to public health. Some are bite-sized, some...
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