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Social Entrepreneurship

The internet is an interesting in which you can start in one place and end up in another.  I was searching for a topic to post in this blog and went from one thing to another until I found something of interest.

That when I cam upon Hopeful Staffing.  This is a social entrepreneurship organization.  For those of you who do not know what that is it is the combination of business beliefs with non profits in which you better humanity through a self sustaining program that can even make a profit, neat huh?

Pretty much what this organization is a staffing agency for the homeless.  I like social entrepreneurship because it takes creative thinking to help someone with out having to rely on someone else for funding when it comes to social programs.

Well here is a link to a short article on Hopeful Staffing.

http://socialinnovation.se/en/hopeful-staffing/

By the way this ties in to public health because public health in one description is just simply the bettering of everybody plus many programs are funded by organizations or/and the government.  I would love to see some social entrepreneurship in public health.

Cheers!

Sustainability

Today I was reading my many sources of articles and found this interesting article on up cycling materials.  This is just a rewording of taking garbage and recycling it into something of greater value.  Usually I am disappointed and mentally compare it to something a child would do in elementary, or it is something that requires a great deal of high tech capital to be able to perform.

This time however I was very impressed.  I know this is not quite the "public health" topic that is usually posted.  But I really like sustainability and the clever ways capitalism allows people to be ingenious to make money and sometimes help the world out.


Here is an interesting article cited in the above upper link with some impressive wear.

http://www.reclaimtowear.com/2012/topshop-reclaim-to-wear/

Bath Salts+ Inhaled = Zombie Attack???

For those in the U.S. this is all old hat about the man who got hopped up on bath salts and ate a man's face off.  For those who have not heard the story here is a news clip to get up to date.

So this being a blog on public health here is the tie in for this week: What goes on in a human's brain when they "do" bath salts.  Instead of ripping someone else's work I will just post a link here

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/06/05/the-straight-dope-on-what-bath-salts-do-to-your-brain-and-why-theyre-dangerous/

and here

http://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/directors-page/messages-director/2011/02/bath-salts-emerging-dangerous-products

and here for an article done earlier on Mephedrone

http://everythingpublichealth.blogspot.com/2011/12/mephedrone-info-graphic.html

The basic gist from the first article is not so much what happens in the brain but quantity of dosage plus sleep deprivation equals chaotic behavior.  The second link is a quick blurb on what are bath salts and what are the active chemicals in these substances and the repercussions.

Drug abuse is a public health and safety issue all over the world.  They come in various forms and have various side effects but in my opinion , and being nothing more then just that, these drugs are used at first to fill a void in a persons life and then that is when these substances with there addictive potential take over a persons life.

If you want to see the results of the attack type "bath salt attack"  WARNING it is very gory.


links for more information on drug abuse from the blog

http://everythingpublichealth.blogspot.com/2012/01/desomorphine-krokodil.html

http://everythingpublichealth.blogspot.com/2012/02/infograph-mexican-drug-wars.html

Prosthetics

Of the Past...

And of the not so future...

Hobbit Homes and the Environment

Ok, ok. Maybe that is a bit of stretch from what this post is really about but hopefully I got your attention any ways.  Really what I have is some information on a organization/pseudo movement known as

Creativity

Philip Montgomery for the Wall Street Journal
Illustrations by Serge Bloch

Today's link and blurb are on creativity.  Yes, I know sounds like a topic that belongs on an art website but I wanted to mention this on public health because in the field of public health the problems are so diverse

Infograph: Mexican Drug Wars

Mexico has been having quite the battle with the major drug cartels in the country over the last couple years
and the media has not been shy about showing us that, but who are the major players in this mess hit the link for a infograph that breaks down the major groups and their leaders.

For larger more visible image take link to source:


http://www.good.is/post/transparency-who-s-who-in-the-mexican-drug-wars/



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Darfur in 10 Minutes

Darfur it's one of those names of a region that many people have heard but don't know why or what is the big deal about it.  This is a 10 minute clip going into the major "Drivers" of the current situation.  I will be first to admit I don't know the whole scenario but based on what I already knew from other sources this hits it on the button and provided additional insight.  Hope it helps clarify Darfur for you to.  P.S. Stuff like this totally has impact on public health in the international sense because war zones have all kinds of public health needs.

link for video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USLDoIiFzzg

Desomorphine (Krokodil)

Desomorphine is a designer drug that has became popular in Russia.  However I find this one very interesting because of the intense damage it inflicts on a users body.

Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

Bacteria adapting to medicine and there by making it ineffective has been a public health concern for years now especially among those who's body immune systems are weakened by HIV or old age.  Her are a few articles on the current trend seen among resistant Tuberculosis.


http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46010460/ns/today-today_health/t/india-reports-new-strain-totally-drug-resistant-tuberculosis/#.TxRQtm-JdDQ

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/tuberculosis/understanding/whatistb/scientificillustrations/pages/extensivelydrugresistantillustration.aspx




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Public Health Jobs

Health Center Manager
Planned Parenthood
Stapleton, CO

https://plannedparenthoodext.hire.com/viewjob.html?optlink-view=view-67708&ERFormID=newjoblist&ERFormCode=any


Epidemiologist
Georgia Dept of Public Health
Atlanta, Georgia

http://cfusion.sph.emory.edu/PHEC/JobDetails.cfm?JobID=38036

International Health: $300 Home for Poor

This is a project developed to provide better housing for the poor and empower them to improve other aspects of there life.  The project is based on microfinancing and does not provide other aspects of infrastructure so is more designed for shoddy housing for those in areas with sewers and water already installed.

This link is on the creation of a video interview on the creation of the project at Thinkers50:

http://www.vijaygovindarajan.com/2011/12/video_the_300_house_at_the_thi.htm

And these are on the project itself:

http://www.300house.com/

http://www.300house.com/blog/

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Teaching and Learning How to Eat

This article is talking about how to not gain weight when eating out by taking the approach of changing how we eat by taking a program to teach what to do.  However, I think it may have application to eating at home.  For the last while in the media obesity has been a big topic in the media blaming mainly sedentary lifestyle and poor nutrition, but I wonder if maybe also how we eat influences how much we eat.  Just food for thought...no pun intended.

Hit link for article from NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/01/10/144980187/how-to-eat-out-without-putting-on-the-pounds

Interdisciplinary Action in Health

This is a TED talk presented by Michelle Borkin on astronomers and doctors and how technology in one crosses over into the other field to improve results.  I enjoyed this article because I think it highlights the vast potential that specialists can bring into a field not of their specialty and especially with public health where resources are limited.

Public Health Care.....Disaster?....Maybe

Here is a video done by the BBC where they interview an Indian doctor on the problems worldwide on public healthcare.  The main point he brings up that was interesting was stating that 70% of healthcare costs goes to salaries and he also states how if this was compared to private businesses it would equal a state that is  unsustainable. I find this an interesting topic because as people live longer the issue of health care availability continues to grow.

Hit link for video

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9674184.stm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Driven Mad at Work

Here is a short blurb on work place atmosphere in some popular software companies and basically how they slave drive them to becoming burned out.  I think this is one area of health that is becoming a concern because of the stress an individual incurs causing a strain on their emotional and mental well being.



http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/01/sprinting-marathons/

Metabolism Slideshow

Just a quick slideshow on 12 ways to boost ones metabolism through small lifestyle changes.  Overall good advise that addresses some misconceptions on fat loss.

http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20306911,00.html

ZZZ's What are they good for?

So While going through the internet today I stumbled across this quiz on WebMD on sleep.  Sleep is one of those things that is important to humans functioning but science cant really explain why.  However I did find this quiz to be interesting and semi enlightening.

http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/rm-quiz-sleep