From Politics to Parity: Using a Health Disparitiies Index to Guide Legislati...Jim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
This document discusses the creation of a health disparities index (HDI) to quantify racial health disparities in states over time. The researchers analyzed mortality rates for various diseases in Black and White populations in states from 1999-2005. They calculated disparity values and compiled HDI scores for states. States with the lowest average HDI scores, indicating fewer health disparities, were Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Washington. The HDI scores correlated with social determinants of health like income inequality and rates of uninsured individuals. The researchers aim to use the HDI to guide legislative efforts to reduce health disparities.
Latin american critical ('social') epidemiology new settings for an old dreamJim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
Breilh, J. (2008). Latin american critical ('social') epidemiology: New settings for an old dream. International Journal of Epidemiology, 37(4), 745-50. doi:10.1093/ije/dyn135
The document summarizes trends in teen employment in Chicago, Illinois, and the U.S. since 2000. It finds that teen employment rates have plunged, declining most sharply in Chicago. In Chicago, the teen employment rate fell from 32% in 1998-2000 to only 13% in 2011-2013. The economic recession further reduced employment opportunities for teens, especially male and black teens in Chicago. Teen employment is also strongly linked to household income levels, with far fewer teens employed from lower-income households in Chicago. The declines in teen employment could negatively impact teens' long-term economic and educational outcomes.
From Politics to Parity: Using a Health Disparitiies Index to Guide Legislati...Jim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
This document discusses the creation of a health disparities index (HDI) to quantify racial health disparities in states over time. The researchers analyzed mortality rates for various diseases in Black and White populations in states from 1999-2005. They calculated disparity values and compiled HDI scores for states. States with the lowest average HDI scores, indicating fewer health disparities, were Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Washington. The HDI scores correlated with social determinants of health like income inequality and rates of uninsured individuals. The researchers aim to use the HDI to guide legislative efforts to reduce health disparities.
Latin american critical ('social') epidemiology new settings for an old dreamJim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
Breilh, J. (2008). Latin american critical ('social') epidemiology: New settings for an old dream. International Journal of Epidemiology, 37(4), 745-50. doi:10.1093/ije/dyn135
The document summarizes trends in teen employment in Chicago, Illinois, and the U.S. since 2000. It finds that teen employment rates have plunged, declining most sharply in Chicago. In Chicago, the teen employment rate fell from 32% in 1998-2000 to only 13% in 2011-2013. The economic recession further reduced employment opportunities for teens, especially male and black teens in Chicago. Teen employment is also strongly linked to household income levels, with far fewer teens employed from lower-income households in Chicago. The declines in teen employment could negatively impact teens' long-term economic and educational outcomes.
Research on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) offers a number of effective methods for caching of content replicas or forwarding requests. Clouds, however, present a new kind of distribution environment as each location can support multiple caching options varying in the level of persistence of stored content. This paper proposes a distributed caching technology specific to fog clouds which, by definition, consist of a high number of loosely controlled heterogeneous locations. To deal with the heterogeneity problem and, at the same time, avoid centralized control, this paper proposes a function that allows CDN applications to discover local caching facilities dynamically, at runtime. For simplicity, this paper analyzes the case when each location offers two caching options: VM-based for each app and location-global shared by all local apps. Analysis in this paper shows that the new method can reduce inter-cloud traffic by between 16 and 18 times while retaining less than 30% of total content in a local cache.
The document discusses how Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence service, conducted a survey of its email list subscribers to understand why sales growth had slowed and how to make the membership more appealing. The survey revealed that subscribers had been receiving emails for 2-3 years, were interested in "Quality of Mind" analysis free of agenda, and were price sensitive. Based on the findings, Stratfor tweaked its sales messaging to emphasize its non-partisan analysis and savings of time, which led to a 13-fold increase in sales. The key lessons were to gather intelligence on customers rather than rely only on analysis, and to listen to and act on customer feedback.
Policy Development to Tackle Structural Origins of Health Inequities: Thought...Jim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
A plenary presentation by Jim Bloyd, MPH, Regional Health officer at the Cook County (Illinois, USA) Department of Public Health, was made Tuesday April 12, 2016, at the National Leadership Academy, "Strengthening the Capacity of Public Health Departments to Advance Health Equity," at the CDC Tom Harkin Global Communications Center, Atlanta, Georgia. The presentation describes the Chicago-area context in which policy is considered, the importance of adopting a causal framework for policy action to eliminate health inequities, actions taken by the Cook County Department of Public Health through its planning and assessment process, and the role of the Collaborative for Health Equity Cook County. The plenary topic, "Best Practices for Developing Policies to Address Social Determinants of Health," was addressed by a panel moderated by Leandris Liburd, Director, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC hosted the National Leadership Academy on Health Equity, a two-day meeting April 11-12, 2016. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the National Association of State Offices of Minority Health (NASOMH), and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) invited participants. At the conclusion of the National Leadership Academy on Health Equity a final report will be developed highlighting action steps, opportunities, challenges and lessons learned fro participants at the leadership academy. Participants' input during breakout sessions will play a critical role in defining the substance of the report. A twitter hashtag #CDCHealthEquity was created by participants during the meeting.
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Adam Maestro created a music magazine for his media studies project that focuses on live music and new artists. Through researching existing magazines and the industry, he gained an understanding of magazine development, editing, and the different sectors required for production and distribution. His magazine challenges conventions by focusing on live music and unsigned acts. It would appeal to those interested in live music and new artists, as well as people in the music industry. Maestro believes the project helped him improve his skills and gain knowledge of the magazine industry.
...unions address physical and psychosocial conditions of work and the underlying inequalities and social determinants of health....Despite occasional challenges, public health professionals should increase their efforts to engage with unions as critical partners.
Power, Policy, and Structural Determinants of Health Inequities--Condensed Ex...Jim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
This is a three-page document consisting of excerpted quotations and two figures from A Conceptual Framework for Action on the Social Determinants of Health by Orielle Solar and Alec Irwin, World Health Organization, 2010. It is intended as a summary of key principles and concepts.
The document proposes a Bulk-n-Pick method for one-to-many data transfer in dense wireless spaces. It begins by outlining problems with congested WiFi networks and inefficient HTTP requests. The solution involves pushing data to clients using circuits rather than individual packet pulls, which reduces overhead. The Bulk-n-Pick method bulk transfers data then allows clients to pick relevant portions, improving throughput. Modeling suggests it completes transfers much faster than traditional methods, especially with multiple parallel sessions. The approach reintroduces benefits of circuits for bulk data transfer over wireless networks.
How a culture of disregard for the Public Taints the Federal LCR and Banalize...Jim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
Presentation by Yanna Lambrinidou, PhD, (Science and Technology in Society, National Capital Region Campus, Falls Church, VA, USA) at the American Public Health Association annual meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 2016
Recent literature on traffic control in datacenter intra- and interconnect has moved from optical burst switching and FCoE to the cut-through mode enforced e2e on commodity ethernet lines. E2e cut-through sessions -- aka, effectively, circuits -- are implemented as optimized schedules in which bulk transfer sessions are mixed with a large number of small flows. This paper presents a new optimizational viewpoint, formulated as the Switchboard Traffic Engineering Problem (STEP). First, the mixed schedule of input flows is mapped to a finite number of (physical) output lines some of which are implemented as (physical) e2e cut-through paths. The second part of the problem is to physically shuffle input ports (hence the switchboard) on switches with output lines in such a way that overall contention is minimized. This paper deals with the formulation of the optimization problem and leaves the otherwise obvious (robotics) implementation of the shuffling part of the technology to future publications.
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