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Eating Disorders Awareness Week: New Research Topic on Prevention and Treatment

Frontiers

Regardless of age, body weight, ethnicity, gender expression, gender identity, nationality, race, sexual identity, or financial status, eating disorders and related anxieties about appearance can afflict anyone. Leading this article collection is Dr. Jason M Lavender , from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU).

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For proper prevention we need a General S**t Life Reduction Strategy – Part I

Public Healthy

In health terms, ‘prevention’ basically means doing stuff that reduces risks to health. Most of the criticism was therefore around its failure (once again) to address the root causes of poor health. We don’t do nearly enough primary prevention. Proper prevention.

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Contemplating Health Data Rights as Civil Rights

The Health Care Blog

The commercial practice of aggregating health and consumer data crosses the borders of healthcare, retail, marketing, communications, transportation, and others. Dr. Rockeymore Cummings spoke about how she had shared parts of her health journey story online to provide support to others on similar journeys.

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Understanding the Different Types of Online Data for Your Data Strategy

Smart Data Collective

There are several ways to categorize online data although I will be separating them into 3 primary types: public, non-public, and personal data. Non-)Public data. While landing upon a clear-cut definition of public data might be difficult, US case-law might give us a good glimpse into what it might look like.