Public health matters (truth matters too)

here is a lecture about vaccines that goes on to explain the difficulty in making a covid vaccine, including discussing several ways they tried to make various vaccines. A bit technical but easier to understand than most of the scientific lectures about the problem.

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Dr Andrew Wefwafwa has a series of talks about how one does public health in Uganda. This is part one of a four part series. Discusses the problems of cross cultural teaching and in later segments the problem of limited resources.

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when working in cross cultural settings, you have to understand the culture, and the best teacher is usually a local person, not an outsider, which is why our nurses did much of the outreach when I worked in Africa and also with the IHS.

There are always complaints that this is not done in the USA, but we did it in the IHS, and other public health clinics work with migrant workers and do outreaches to the black churches on health matters that have few symptoms but can be treated to prevent death and disability, such as disbetes and high blood pressure.

 For middle class folk, local hospitals do similar outreaches to their community.... 

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 speaking of public health: Monkey pox is being hyped, but there is a lot of distortion in the reporting. The dirty little secret is that a lot of these cases are from promiscuous sex and one dares not suggest Just Say no for fear of being called homophobic

.. and the second problem is the conspiracy theory that points out it might be a lab leak origin (which by the way I don't believe). I discuss both these problems here on my medical blog...

............Finally, Dr. Peterson, using his experience as a clinical psychologists, blasts the rush to give strong hormones and do surgery on children when they think they are trans. 

It's not just surgery that can affect these kids: hormones and anti hormones have side effects on the psyche and I discuss that on my medical blog too.