Bridging a cultural divide
[Winter 2010] Are better tools needed to identify emotional distress in non-Western refugees? More than 17,000 Iraqi refugees arrived in the United States in … Continue reading “Bridging a cultural divide”
[Winter 2010] Are better tools needed to identify emotional distress in non-Western refugees? More than 17,000 Iraqi refugees arrived in the United States in … Continue reading “Bridging a cultural divide”
In this issue Public health takes aim at sugar and salt Evidence has mounted that too much sugar and salt—often invisibly insinuated into beverages, … Continue reading “Harvard Public Health: Fall 2009”
Sugar and Salt in Hiding As a dietary enemy, sugar is cleverly camouflaged because it is dissolved in liquid. A 20-ounce bottle of sugary … Continue reading “Fast Facts on Sugar and Salt”
What Other Countries Have Done Over the past three decades in Finland, deaths from heart disease and stroke have both fallen 75 to 80 … Continue reading “Sugar and Salt”
[Fall 2009] The war on obesity and other lifestyle ills has opened a new battlefront: the fight against sugar and salt. It may be a fight for … Continue reading “Public health takes aim at sugar and salt”
Women Breast, cervical, stomach, lung, and colorectal cancers are the most common cancers among women in developing nations. Breast cancer now surpasses cervical cancer … Continue reading “Statistics paint a changing picture”
[Fall 2009] by Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD Dean, Harvard School of Public Health While it’s well known that cancer is a leading cause of death … Continue reading “Cancer is on the rise in developing countries”
Four Water Challenges INDIA – Sacred Ganges River, severely polluted, needs clean-up BRAZIL – Amazon deforestation threatens farming, hydropower PAKISTAN – Receding Himalayan glacier cuts meltwater to … Continue reading “Four Countries”
[Fall 2009] What do people in developing nations understand about water that people in wealthy nations do not? “They understand the absence of it,” … Continue reading “John Briscoe offers bold, unorthodox ideas for managing scarce water”
[Fall 2009] Catching the flu before it catches the world As a new influenza pandemic this spring set off alarms in the global health … Continue reading “HSPH investigators help lead H1N1 research and response”