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Why Social Science? - Because It Provides Empirical Answers to Critical Public Health Questions
By Jeni L. Burnette, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology & Sarah L. Desmarais, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, North Carolina State University What do the opioid and obesity epidemics have in common? For starters, they are both public health crises in which the disease model is used to…Opioid crisis shows partnering with industry can be bad for public health
By Jonathan H. Marks, Director of the Bioethics Program and affiliate faculty in Law and International Affairs, Pennsylvania State University, for The Conversation “Show me the bodies!” someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago. As a scholar of public health ethics, law and policy,…News Topics: OpioidsPublic Health Sciences