Gun Violence -Prison Voices Video

Published on Feb 13, 2015

Dan Slepian, renowned TV producer, discusses his volunteer work at Sing Sing, helping to create the “Voices From Within” project, a video and education initiative that uniquely addresses the epidemic of gun violence directly through the voices of inmates living with the consequences of their deadly choices.

Dan Slepian is an award-winning investigative producer and an 18 year veteran of NBC’s venerable newsmagazine, Dateline -- where he has developed and produced dozens of episodes, complex hidden camera investigations, and breaking news segments.

Referred to as “A TV News Gumshoe” by The New York Times, Slepian’s investigations have helped solve cold cases, assisted in exonerating wrongfully convicted inmates, uncovered corruption, sparked changes in laws, and led to the shutting down of illicit businesses. He also conceived and developed three separate recurring hour-long series: “Vegas Homicide,” “Vegas Undercover” and “Wild, Wild Web.” The work he’s done at NBC has appeared on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, CNBC, Court TV, MSNBC and Netflix. Slepian graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he currently serves on the Journalism School’s professional advisory board.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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Injured Workers and Corporations -Preemption 411

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/arawc-walmart-campaign-against-workers-compensation

    

Walmart, Lowe's, Safeway, and Nordstrom Are Bankrolling a Nationwide Campaign to Gut Workers' Comp

UK Junk Food Handouts

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2992448/Junk-food-firms-six-figure-handouts-funded-taxpayers-obesity-costs-Britain-50bn-year-rising-companies-including-Nestle-Pepsi-given-money-improve-products.html

"Junk food firms get six-figure handouts funded by taxpayers: As obesity costs Britain £50bn a year and rising companies including Nestle and Pepsi given money to improve products"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2992448/Junk-food-firms-six-figure-handouts-funded-taxpayers-obesity-costs-Britain-50bn-year-rising-companies-including-Nestle-Pepsi-given-money-improve-products.html#ixzz3UI0DO2I4
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Global Burden of Diseases WHO Report

http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/GlobalDALYmethods_2000_2011.pdf?ua=1


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About the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project

A consistent and comparative description of the burden of diseases and injuries and the risk factors that cause them is an important input to health decision-making and planning processes. Information that is available on mortality and health in populations in all regions of the world is fragmentary and sometimes inconsistent. Thus, a framework for integrating, validating, analysing and disseminating such information is needed to assess the comparative importance of diseases, injuries and risk factors in causing premature death, loss of health and disability in different populations. Countries can combine this type of evidence along with information about policies and their costs to decide how to set their health agenda.
The first GBD 1990 study quantified the health effects of more than 100 diseases and injuries for eight regions of the world in 1990. It generated comprehensive and internally consistent estimates of mortality and morbidity by age, sex and region. The study also introduced a new metric – the disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) – as a single measure to quantify the burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors. The DALY is based on years of life lost from premature death and years of life lived in less than full health. This study was updated by WHO for the years 2000-2002 and included a more extensive analysis of the mortality and burden of disease attributable to 26 global risk factors using a consistent analytic framework known as Comparative Risk Factor Assessment (CRA). The WHO estimates were subsequently updated for the year 2004, see The global burden of disease: 2004 update and the Global health risks reports.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and other academic partners have collaborated on a new GBD 2010, published on 14 December 2012, which provides regional estimates of deaths and DALYs (using a new method for calculation of DALYs) for the years 1990, 2005 and 2010. These estimates contributed to WHO global health estimates which were published in 2013.
WHO has prepared a comprehensive and consistent set of DALY estimates for years 2000–2012, consistent with and incorporating UN agency, interagency and WHO estimates for population, births, all-cause deaths and specific causes of death as well as WHO estimates for some specific diseases and analyses carried out for the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study. A summary of methods is available here. Regional cause-specific DALY estimates for the year 2000 and 2012 are available for download here.
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Weight Bias Stigma by Rebecca Puhl

Weight bias and stigma .

 Paul Murphy

 Obesity Thunder Bay

 Mission Statement

 March 2, 2015

Obesity Thunder Bay works to confront the issue of obesity through “SHARED ACCOUNTABILITY and RESPONSIBILITY.” To effect social change through advocacy, research, education, and the elimination of unhealthy food environments.

We are a working think tank and welcome individuals and agencies to assist in our endeavor to promote healthy communities, and individuals. Please add your voice to the development of a new model that may create a comprehensive action plan to improve community health. The goal is to conduct a free trial on the frameworks of our model.

Obese people are not the enemy. Please stop by the main site to explore the countless resources available. We need a community driven action plan. One with Integrity and Dignity. Volunteers are always welcomed.

   Our model is called ,Shared Accountability and this project is 100 % not for profit. 

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Is Soda the New Tobacco? Part 1-2-3-4

Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0420r7AqDwI



Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI7-OA04AWY

Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzTEsaE2r2E

Part 4 
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgsAA51c9qA

Is Soda the New Tobacco? Part 1

     

Published on Oct 21, 2014

Stanton Glantz, PhD, has spent nearly 40 years battling the tobacco industry over local policies. Many victories later, smoking behavior has completely changed, and declining smoking rates are a huge public health success. His experience working on these health initiatives lend insight into the new battleground of the soda fight.

 

     

Obesity Berkley Video "Trading Heat For Lite"

Uploaded on Aug 21, 2007

A panel discussion with:

Marion Nestle
Professor and Chair, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University and author, Food Politics

Joan Dye Gussow
Professor emeritus of nutrition education, Teacher's College, Columbia University and author, This Organic Life

Kelly Brownell
Professor of Psychology and Director, Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders and author, Food Fight

Moderated by Michael Pollan
Knight Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism. [events] [glopubaffairs] [jschool] Credits: producer:UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services

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Soft drink tax could improve health of the nation

http://monash.edu/news/show/soft-drink-tax-could-improve-health-of-the-nation

        The article  highlites the benefits of  raising taxes on sweetened beverages  and helps to identify possible health outcomes.

  Paul Murphy

The extra costs of extra weight for older adults Video

Published on Feb 27, 2015

Lifelong obesity, now common in the U.S., is beginning to change how Americans age. Along Alabama's Gulf Coast, one in three adults is obese, and many who have lived with the negative health effects of excess weight are entering their senior years. Special correspondent Sarah Varney of Kaiser Health News reports on the added costs, disabilities and challenges for older obese patients.

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