Prevention

Dr. Alan Greene has been on a mission to find out all he can about organic food. You can read all about his three year journey as “The 100 Percent Organic Man” on the New York Times article and Blog post by Tara Parker-Pope. He just ended a year as the President of the Organic Center, [...]

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Using Aggregate Data to Help Public Health

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | November 13, 2008

Public health is different than our personal health. Most people take for granted the role public health agencies play in our lives, but its primary emphasis is tracking disease data across the country in order to prevent a nationwide epidemic or pandemic. Nobody wants another bubonic plague, right? Public health agencies carry out their mission [...]