Mark DraneApr 17, 2023

What is wrong with #GlobalHealth?

“A critical studies definition of global health would consider global health as the practice of public health in high-income countries for low-income countries.” @@girijasankar06

This came up at #SkollWF & prompted me to look further. It feels like seeking new thinking, crossing disciplinary boundaries, only to find the same problems repeated. Thoughts?

Lancet collection of writing:
https://www.thelancet.com/what-is-wrong-with-global-health

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What is wrong with global health?

Mark DraneApr 16, 2023

Smart motorways cut https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65288852

This seems an inconsistent application of criteria compared to other road types & transport modes. What about the -ve impacts resulting?

The PM says ‘all drivers deserve to have confidence in the roads they use to get around the country’. Will the same benefit be granted to all road users?

Maybe the smart thing to do would be put the £1bn saved back into the active travel funding slashed a few weeks ago? @@livingstreets #ViaMastodon

New smart motorway plans being scrapped

Plans to have more stretches without hard shoulders are cancelled amid cost and safety concerns.

BBC News
Mark DraneApr 11, 2023

“Making our cities safer, more pleasant and more convenient to navigate is… a worthwhile infrastructure investment and public health priority.”

#RestorativeCities #publichealth “@laylamccay” “@jennyroe” #ViaMastodon

Mark DraneApr 5, 2023
Checking original sources 🧐. I love this part of #PhDlife, there have been several times that I have interpreted something differently from how someone else citing the same ref. This 1978 paper is an early example of what we now are so used to: the socio-ecologic paradigm in #PublicHealth, here in relation to death from heart attack - that the biologic can’t explain everything, the role of ‘social causation’ & what we now call ‘wider determinants’. #ViaMastodon
Mark DraneMar 30, 2023
After draft thesis in time to catch up on some recent new publications including those out since I completed my #SystematicReview on #healthystreets. First up #RestorativeCities by @laylamccay @jennyroe. A fitting read after yoga class @insolecourt. #ViaMastodon
Jessica. 🦕Nov 3, 2022

Sitting here in #CLAPS2022 today and getting so much validation for the issues we're seeing in libraries today. I really needed this and it couldn't have come at a better time.

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Jessica. 🦕Oct 31, 2022

@BigFrickinSwede just dropped off our mail-in ballots for our upcoming election: we voted!

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Jessica. 🦕Oct 30, 2022

Our Rosie has finished the rest of her body, so it's now time to settle in and to focus on her peets.

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #ViaMastodon

Show threadJessica. 🦕Oct 27, 2022

New job posted on the North Dakota Library Association site: https://ndla.info/job-listings#scsu_catalog

Copy Cataloger / St. Cloud State University / St. Cloud, MN / Full time / $39839 - $55373

#ViaMastodon #LISJobs #Librarian #LibraryWorker #LibraryWorkers #Librarians

Jessica. 🦕Oct 27, 2022

It's 3:00 in the morning. Do you know where your sleep is?

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