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Occup Ther Health Care
November 2023
Program in Occupational Therapy and Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Climate change may be the most pressing existential threat to human health and wellbeing in the twenty first century. In this paper, the authors provide context and critique on barriers to climate action in the United States and other high-income countries, including the profit-driven approach to health, consumerism, and the climate change countermovement. The reciprocal connections between occupational engagement and climate damage are examined from a lens of collective and irresponsible occupations and subsequent accountability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDrawing on the changing representations of sunbed consumers within everyday entertainment media and national newspapers from the late 1980s to early 1990s, this article will demonstrate how sunbed use was framed, at first, as an 'immoral' working-class activity, and later as a growing addictive threat to white adolescent women. Medical experts had finally confirmed that sunbeds increased the risk of developing skin cancer, and the media had taken this 'public health' matter into their own hands. As this occurred during a backlash against Thatcherism, their anti-sunbed coverage became entangled with moralised concerns about class, women and consumerism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLinacre Q
February 2022
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Today, more than we are aware of in the history of health services in the United States, is the critical need to reclaim and apply the core values and principles that inspired physicians and nurses to respond to their original call become consolers and healers of the sick and those in distress, and to refocus our attention on the person of the healer. In clinical practice today, we are endowed with enormously effective interventions that were unimaginable only a few decades earlier. In light of the fund of knowledge, clinical competencies, and technological advancements that we bring to bear in our experience in caring for our patients, the learning curve is never flat, never complete, and never static.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLancet Planet Health
February 2022
Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand.
Background: Marketing promotes values of consumerism and overconsumption, and negatively affects children's wellbeing and psychological development. The threat marketing poses to planetary health is just being realised. However, little is known about children's exposure to marketing at an aggregate level.
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