Public health vs public education
Monday, July 28th, 2008Written by: David Ethan Greenblog
Last week I was fortunate to attend the annual Dorsey Hughes Symposium on public health, which may be the most high powered conference held in Colorado that lay people and the media have never heard of. Speakers included Denis Cortese, the CEO of the Mayo Clinic; Dr, Kenneth Cooper (the patron saint of the Aerobics movement); T.R. Reid (his documentary "Sick Around the World" debuted on PBS last month); national pollsters Celinda Lake (Dems) and Elizabeth Harrington (GOP); three doctors who made the "short list" to become US Surgeon General, etc.
One big take away is that the next public health crisis coming down the road is Type 2 diabetes, which is tied directly to obesity. And the dramatic rise in adult onset diabetes is tied directly to the fact that we are raising a generation of fatties. This, in turn, makes education a target for the public health community,…
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