Read This First, Heuristics (1), Glossary (A-H), Mini Lessons (3)
1. Climomics, 1.1. Life Costs, 2. Not Disease, 3. Health Literacy, 4. Communicating Fact, <ADDED >1. Notre Dame Sequella, >2. Climate Drama, >3. Between Waves, >4. ASF, >5. Ebola Polemic, >6. Feral Cats, >7. After the End. 190428-VCP. 190428-Polemic.
Other Topics: Dominionism, BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, One Health, Environmental Change, Human Factors, Social Dimensions, Narratives, Infectious Disease, Linguistic Relativism, Drought, Bioeconomics, Extinction Rebellion, Lead Poisoning
-1. Climate Change Has Worsened Global Economic Inequality. The gap between the economic output of the world's richest and poorest countries is 25 percent larger today than it would have been without global warming, since the 1960s. Temperature changes caused by growing concentrations of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere have enriched cool countries like Norway and Sweden, while dragging down economic growth in warm countries such as India and Nigeria. Open Letter on Climate Related Financial Risks. The catastrophic effects of climate change are already visible around the world. From blistering heatwaves in North America to typhoons in south east Asia and droughts in Africa and Australia, no country or community is immune. These events damage infrastructure and private property, negatively affect health, decrease productivity and destroy wealth. And they are extremely costly: insured losses have risen five fold in the past three decades. The enormous human and financial costs of climate change are having a devastating effect on our collective wellbeing. What Climate Change Means for Investors, According to Jeremy Grantham.
-1.1. The One Number You Need to Know about Climate Change. The social cost of carbon could guide us toward intelligent policies – if only we knew what it was. Not sure one can monetize lives, and if that would actually be of value, but there are ways to put a dollar figure on costs, with agriculture losses and the costs of the self inflicted border crisis and other connected economics costs in added. Welcome to Climate Change. Time to start talking less about the technology for preventing global warming and more about the technology we’ll need to live with it. FEMA Chief Calls for Changing Attitudes as Storms Get Stronger. New EPA Document Tells Communities to Brace for Climate Change Impacts, EPA's Document at Odds with Chief on Climate Change.
-2. NCDs: Names, Sums, and Parts. The global burden of mortality and morbidity attributable to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) now exceeds that of infectious disease. Yet, concern is mounting that global political prioritisation and action have stalled. The failure of NCDs to capture public and political imaginations has been ascribed to a number of reasons, with some recently contending that the very name of the disease classification is to blame. In this piece, I reflect critically on why discourse about NCDs has not compelled global action proportionate to the magnitude of the suffering these diseases cause. Failure to act on NCDs, I argue, is not a failure of terminology alone.
-3. Health Literacy as a Social Practice: Social and Empirical Dimensions of Knowledge on Health and Healthcare. Health literacy has become a hot topic in health research and public health promotion. Most definitions specify health literacy as an individual cognitive skill. Surveys ask people to self rate their decision making capacity in the health system, grade a majority of the population as having an inadequate health literacy. Inspired by a praxeological understanding of knowledge and based on an empirical study on welfare bricolage in superdiverse urban neighborhoods, this paper explores health literacy ethnographically and highlights people's knowledge, creative practices and experiences concerning health and healthcare. Findings question the individualistic and rationalistic bias of conventional approaches to health literacy and suggest that health literacy as a social practice is situational, multidimensional – comprised of different sources and forms of knowledge – and co produced in social relations. This reformulation of the concept suggests that future research on health literacy should adopt a resource oriented approach and embrace the rich variety of health knowledge practices.
-4. Communicating Research in an Era of Misinformation. Last year Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate (180826-VCP-USA, 190331-VCP-Global) was the 18th most read academic article of 2018. This was no surprise. It had popular appeal and scientific clout. It also fed into a hotly trending political narrative and addressed a timely public health challenge. It made a great news story. Broad interest from the media ensured that the public heard about its findings. It also illuminated a central challenge facing us today: how can evidence based public health messages compete against more attention grabbing trolls, tweets, and myths, particularly when they undermine science and sow discord. Dictionary.com to designatee “misinformation” as its 2018 word of the year . The best way for public health to push back against misinformation is to not directly confront the messengers or repeat their misinformation (or, in Internet speak, feed the trolls [Photo]) but instead to look for other ways to assert the truth. Combine antivax with a weak public health infrastructure is a pandemic waiting to happen (actually it is in progress toward acceleration right now) The Impact of Chronic Underfunding of America’s Public Health System: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations, 2019.
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-190421-2>1. Race Against Time to Protect Exposed Notre Dame from Storms. <ADDED 181202-181125-1>1. Why Does It Always Take a Crisis to Get Something Fixed. Lead from Notre Dame Fire Dictates Area Health Precautions, Lead Poisoning and Health. [Sign]. Emmanuel Macron Not Sure How to Tell Billionaires Notre Dame Repair Only Costs $200.
-190106-1.1>2. <ADDED 190421>2. Emma Thompson to Star in Extinction Rebellion Climate Change Satire. Extinction Rebellion Stage Mass ‘Die In’ at Natural History Museum. One Health Listenmi News Music Video. Extinction Rebellion: Possible Banksy Artwork Appears as Climate Change Protests Close. Three Birds Sing a New Song: A Puerto Rican Trilogy on Dystopia, Precarity, and Resistance. | Going to the Opera to Learn About Tuberculosis.
-181209-4>3. <ADDED 190324>2. VENEZ is it a crisis if it is not reported in the news.
-181118-VCP-China>4. <ADDED 190414>3. 190428-VCP. African Swine Fever in All Parts of China. China Lifts Lockdown on Transport of Pigs and Pork in 23 African Swine Fever Hit Provinces.
-180513-1.1>5. <ADDED 190421>4. Oly Ilunga: the Current Response Has Prevented Ebola from Becoming a Real Human and Economic Tragedy. Assassination of Dr. Richard Mouzoko in Butembo: 11 Alleged Killers Arrested. Mayor of Butembo Pleads for Strengthening Law Enforcement to Fight Insecurity in the City. Doctors at Ebola Epicenter in Congo Threaten Strike, Ebola Centres in Butembo and Katwa: Medical Staff Threatens to Disengage, Butembo Insecurity: Healthcare Workers Issue Last Warning to Urban Authority. Health Officials must Learn from Their Mistakes Before Ebola Jumps the Fence – Again. Imminent Hunger Crisis Threatens Ebola Stricken North Kivu. Another Victim of Violence: Trust in Those Who Mean No Harm, exposure to violence does not change the ability to learn who is likely to do harm, but it does damage the ability to place trust in good people. Butembo: 11 Ebola Winners Released from ETCs. Over 18,000 Persons Died of Malaria in 2018. A State Coup Against the Ministry of Health. How Did Ebola Information Spread on Twitter: Broadcasting or Viral Spreading. 190428-Polemic-3.1.
-180701-1‡>6. The Case Against Cats: Why Australia Has Declared War on Feral Felines. Australia Wants to Kill Millions of Feral Cats by Airdropping Poisonous Sausages, and no way that could possibly go wrong.
-180204-6.4>7. <ADDED 180318>7. Day Zero, 365 Days Later. A year ago, Cape Town was poised to run out of water. Although serious challenges remain, a barrage of efforts brought them through the worst. The “success” was in part because there was still an outside the area that had resources that could be brought in. A full global biocalamity means that everyone is impacted by the same event, have overwhelmed their own resources, and there is no place to be more.
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