Stuff White People Like
19th September 2008
“Today’s students want to contribute, to empower individuals and communities to take charge of their own health,” said Ruth Gaare Bernheim, who teaches health policy at the University of Virginia. “I think they also intuitively realize that the world is their community and that the gains of the 21st century will be in global public health.”
AIDS is a dramatic example of how whole populations, not just individuals, can be at increased risk for disease — a key epidemiological concept. The emergence in the mid-1990s of life-extending treatment, which is only now being brought to Africa and Asia, where most AIDS patients live, provides a lesson in equity — the principle that underlies public health.
Only if you stick your weiner where it doesn’t belong. But I guess that describes most kids today.