What are the health-related effects of not having basic income? This slide deck by Scott Santens goes into the importance of guaranteeing economic security for human health and more equal opportunity. Poverty has too high of cost. It's time to end it by preventing it.
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Presentation by Emebet Mulugeta (Ph.D.), Associate Professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and Director at Nia Center for Children and Family Development, during the "Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support," Florence, Italy 26-27 May 2014.
A case study about Teenage pregnancy which is a widespread problem all over the world. Teen pregnancy and childbearing bring substantial social and economic costs through immediate and long-term impacts on teen parents and their children.
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How can we take into account health in our agriculture, nutrition, and gender research? Health and nutrition are closely interrelated: health status influences nutritional outcomes, by mediating a person’s ability to utilize nutrients and lead a healthy life, and nutritional status influences health, by mediating a person’s vulnerability to various illnesses. Both health and nutrition are directly and indirectly affected by rural livelihood decisions related to agriculture, livestock, and water management. Livelihood decisions and duties are gendered, in that social identity influences an individual’s options and choices. Men and women’s exposure to health risks, capacity to provide health care, and access to health services often vary due to these differing roles and rights.
This seminar provides three case studies in how gender dynamics in rural livelihoods influence health, and in turn, nutrition. Intended as an introduction to topics in gender, health, and agriculture, the seminar will help researchers familiar with the agriculture-to-nutrition pathways begin to think about how health has bearings on this framework.
In the seminar, Kelly Jones will present on recent research that traces how livelihood shocks may increase HIV transmission through higher-risk sex, especially for women. Elizabeth Bryan will share early-stage research on the links between small-scale irrigation adoption, gender, and health and nutrition outcomes. Delia Grace will introduce a gender-sensitive participatory risk assessment framework for addressing food safety.
UBI Discussion: What are the health-related effects of not having basic income?Scott Santens
This is a slide deck I prepared for a lecture I gave to a room full of medical students about the need for unconditional basic income (UBI) as a foundational for a healthier society.
Presentation by Emebet Mulugeta (Ph.D.), Associate Professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and Director at Nia Center for Children and Family Development, during the "Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support," Florence, Italy 26-27 May 2014.
A case study about Teenage pregnancy which is a widespread problem all over the world. Teen pregnancy and childbearing bring substantial social and economic costs through immediate and long-term impacts on teen parents and their children.
This webcast was developed by the Office of
Adolescent Health (OAH) in May 2013 as a technical assistance product for use with OAH grant programs and presents global strategies for adolescent pregnancy prevention.
Child-health practitioners in Iowa must find better ways to address family, neighborhood and economic factors that shape children' health and well being, according to CFPC executive director Charles Bruner and Debra Waldron, director and chief medical officer of the Child Health Specialty Clinics at the University of Iowa. They presented at the Iowa Governor's Conference on Public Health in Ames on April 5.
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A4NH and Gender Task Force seminar on Gender, Agriculture, and Health: Tracing the Links
Screencast recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zer79kc0vnsrsgy/2015-10-20%2009.31%2010_20%20A4NH_IFPRI%20Gender%20Task%20Force%20Seminar_%20Gender%2C%20agriculture%2C%20and%20health.mp4?dl=0
How can we take into account health in our agriculture, nutrition, and gender research? Health and nutrition are closely interrelated: health status influences nutritional outcomes, by mediating a person’s ability to utilize nutrients and lead a healthy life, and nutritional status influences health, by mediating a person’s vulnerability to various illnesses. Both health and nutrition are directly and indirectly affected by rural livelihood decisions related to agriculture, livestock, and water management. Livelihood decisions and duties are gendered, in that social identity influences an individual’s options and choices. Men and women’s exposure to health risks, capacity to provide health care, and access to health services often vary due to these differing roles and rights.
This seminar provides three case studies in how gender dynamics in rural livelihoods influence health, and in turn, nutrition. Intended as an introduction to topics in gender, health, and agriculture, the seminar will help researchers familiar with the agriculture-to-nutrition pathways begin to think about how health has bearings on this framework.
In the seminar, Kelly Jones will present on recent research that traces how livelihood shocks may increase HIV transmission through higher-risk sex, especially for women. Elizabeth Bryan will share early-stage research on the links between small-scale irrigation adoption, gender, and health and nutrition outcomes. Delia Grace will introduce a gender-sensitive participatory risk assessment framework for addressing food safety.
UBI Discussion: What are the health-related effects of not having basic income?Scott Santens
This is a slide deck I prepared for a lecture I gave to a room full of medical students about the need for unconditional basic income (UBI) as a foundational for a healthier society.
This presentation was used when i spoke to officials in MInnesotta. My program is working in several schools throughout the country.
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Title: Sense of Taste
Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
MBBS (Best Graduate, AIMC Lahore)
FCPS Physiology
ICMT, CHPE, DHPE (STMU)
MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the structure and function of taste buds.
Describe the relationship between the taste threshold and taste index of common substances.
Explain the chemical basis and signal transduction of taste perception for each type of primary taste sensation.
Recognize different abnormalities of taste perception and their causes.
Key Topics:
Significance of Taste Sensation:
Differentiation between pleasant and harmful food
Influence on behavior
Selection of food based on metabolic needs
Receptors of Taste:
Taste buds on the tongue
Influence of sense of smell, texture of food, and pain stimulation (e.g., by pepper)
Primary and Secondary Taste Sensations:
Primary taste sensations: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Umami
Chemical basis and signal transduction mechanisms for each taste
Taste Threshold and Index:
Taste threshold values for Sweet (sucrose), Salty (NaCl), Sour (HCl), and Bitter (Quinine)
Taste index relationship: Inversely proportional to taste threshold
Taste Blindness:
Inability to taste certain substances, particularly thiourea compounds
Example: Phenylthiocarbamide
Structure and Function of Taste Buds:
Composition: Epithelial cells, Sustentacular/Supporting cells, Taste cells, Basal cells
Features: Taste pores, Taste hairs/microvilli, and Taste nerve fibers
Location of Taste Buds:
Found in papillae of the tongue (Fungiform, Circumvallate, Foliate)
Also present on the palate, tonsillar pillars, epiglottis, and proximal esophagus
Mechanism of Taste Stimulation:
Interaction of taste substances with receptors on microvilli
Signal transduction pathways for Umami, Sweet, Bitter, Sour, and Salty tastes
Taste Sensitivity and Adaptation:
Decrease in sensitivity with age
Rapid adaptation of taste sensation
Role of Saliva in Taste:
Dissolution of tastants to reach receptors
Washing away the stimulus
Taste Preferences and Aversions:
Mechanisms behind taste preference and aversion
Influence of receptors and neural pathways
Impact of Sensory Nerve Damage:
Degeneration of taste buds if the sensory nerve fiber is cut
Abnormalities of Taste Detection:
Conditions: Ageusia, Hypogeusia, Dysgeusia (parageusia)
Causes: Nerve damage, neurological disorders, infections, poor oral hygiene, adverse drug effects, deficiencies, aging, tobacco use, altered neurotransmitter levels
Neurotransmitters and Taste Threshold:
Effects of serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) on taste sensitivity
Supertasters:
25% of the population with heightened sensitivity to taste, especially bitterness
Increased number of fungiform papillae
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Learning objectives:
1. Define an electrocardiogram (ECG) and electrocardiography
2. Describe how dipoles generated by the heart produce the waveforms of the ECG
3. Describe the components of a normal electrocardiogram of a typical bipolar leads (limb II)
4. Differentiate between intervals and segments
5. Enlist some common indications for obtaining an ECG
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2. Chapter 9, Human Physiology - From Cells to Systems, Lauralee Sherwood, 9th edition
3. Chapter 29, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th edition
4. Electrocardiogram, StatPearls - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK549803/
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These simplified slides by Dr. Sidra Arshad present an overview of the non-respiratory functions of the respiratory tract.
Learning objectives:
1. Enlist the non-respiratory functions of the respiratory tract
2. Briefly explain how these functions are carried out
3. Discuss the significance of dead space
4. Differentiate between minute ventilation and alveolar ventilation
5. Describe the cough and sneeze reflexes
Study Resources:
1. Chapter 39, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th edition
2. Chapter 34, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th edition
3. Chapter 17, Human Physiology by Lauralee Sherwood, 9th edition
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Many have been interested in Tom Selleck health. not only because of his enduring presence on screen but also because of the challenges. and lifestyle choices he has faced and made over the years. This article delves into the various aspects of Tom Selleck health. exploring his fitness regimen, diet, mental health. and the challenges he has encountered as he ages. We'll look at how he maintains his well-being. the health issues he has faced, and his approach to ageing .
Early Life and Career
Childhood and Athletic Beginnings
Tom Selleck was born on January 29, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. From an early age, he was involved in sports, particularly basketball. which played a significant role in his physical development. His athletic pursuits continued into college. where he attended the University of Southern California (USC) on a basketball scholarship. This early involvement in sports laid a strong foundation for his physical health and disciplined lifestyle.
Transition to Acting
Selleck's transition from an athlete to an actor came with its physical demands. His first significant role in "Magnum P.I." required him to perform various stunts and maintain a fit appearance. This role, which he played from 1980 to 1988. necessitated a rigorous fitness routine to meet the show's demands. setting the stage for his long-term commitment to health and wellness.
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Workout Routine
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Title: Sense of Smell
Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
MBBS (Best Graduate, AIMC Lahore)
FCPS Physiology
ICMT, CHPE, DHPE (STMU)
MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the primary categories of smells and the concept of odor blindness.
Explain the structure and location of the olfactory membrane and mucosa, including the types and roles of cells involved in olfaction.
Describe the pathway and mechanisms of olfactory signal transmission from the olfactory receptors to the brain.
Illustrate the biochemical cascade triggered by odorant binding to olfactory receptors, including the role of G-proteins and second messengers in generating an action potential.
Identify different types of olfactory disorders such as anosmia, hyposmia, hyperosmia, and dysosmia, including their potential causes.
Key Topics:
Olfactory Genes:
3% of the human genome accounts for olfactory genes.
400 genes for odorant receptors.
Olfactory Membrane:
Located in the superior part of the nasal cavity.
Medially: Folds downward along the superior septum.
Laterally: Folds over the superior turbinate and upper surface of the middle turbinate.
Total surface area: 5-10 square centimeters.
Olfactory Mucosa:
Olfactory Cells: Bipolar nerve cells derived from the CNS (100 million), with 4-25 olfactory cilia per cell.
Sustentacular Cells: Produce mucus and maintain ionic and molecular environment.
Basal Cells: Replace worn-out olfactory cells with an average lifespan of 1-2 months.
Bowman’s Gland: Secretes mucus.
Stimulation of Olfactory Cells:
Odorant dissolves in mucus and attaches to receptors on olfactory cilia.
Involves a cascade effect through G-proteins and second messengers, leading to depolarization and action potential generation in the olfactory nerve.
Quality of a Good Odorant:
Small (3-20 Carbon atoms), volatile, water-soluble, and lipid-soluble.
Facilitated by odorant-binding proteins in mucus.
Membrane Potential and Action Potential:
Resting membrane potential: -55mV.
Action potential frequency in the olfactory nerve increases with odorant strength.
Adaptation Towards the Sense of Smell:
Rapid adaptation within the first second, with further slow adaptation.
Psychological adaptation greater than receptor adaptation, involving feedback inhibition from the central nervous system.
Primary Sensations of Smell:
Camphoraceous, Musky, Floral, Pepperminty, Ethereal, Pungent, Putrid.
Odor Detection Threshold:
Examples: Hydrogen sulfide (0.0005 ppm), Methyl-mercaptan (0.002 ppm).
Some toxic substances are odorless at lethal concentrations.
Characteristics of Smell:
Odor blindness for single substances due to lack of appropriate receptor protein.
Behavioral and emotional influences of smell.
Transmission of Olfactory Signals:
From olfactory cells to glomeruli in the olfactory bulb, involving lateral inhibition.
Primitive, less old, and new olfactory systems with different path
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Unconditional Basic Income and Health
1. What are the health-related effects of not
having basic income?
QUESTION:
2. TREATING SYMPTOMS INSTEAD OF ROOTS
• “I was treating their bodies, but not their social situations. And especially not
their income, which seemed to be the biggest barrier to their health
improving. The research evidence was pretty clear on this. Income, poverty,
is intimately connected to my patients’ health. In fact, poverty is more
important to my low-income patients than smoking, high cholesterol, high-
blood pressure, obesity, salt, or soda. Poverty wreaks havoc on my patients’
bodies. A 17% increased risk of heart disease; more than 100% increased
risk of diabetes; 60% higher rates of depression; higher rates of lung, oral,
cervical cancer; higher rates of lung disease like asthma and emphysema…
It became pretty clear to me I was treating all of [my patients’] health issues
except for the most important one—their poverty.”—Dr. Gary Bloch
3. COSTS OF CHILD POVERTY ALONE
• 2007 analysis estimated costs to the United States associated with childhood
poverty total about $500 billion per year, or the equivalent of nearly 4
percent of GDP.
• Reduces productivity and economic output by about 1.3 percent of GDP;
• Raises the costs of crime by 1.3 percent of GDP; and
• Raises health expenditures and reduces the value of health by 1.2 percent
of GDP.
• Since 2007 the child poverty rate has increased from 17% to 25%. Assuming
a proportional increase, the current loss to economic growth of child poverty
could now be 5.6% of GDP, or $981 billion.)
4. POTENTIAL SAVINGS OF NO CHILD POVERTY
• A report by the Chief Public Health Officer in Canada looked at this question of potential
savings, and estimated that:
• $1 invested in the early years saves
between $3 and $9 in future spending on
the health and criminal justice systems, as
well as on social assistance.
5. BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF CHILD POVERTY
Study of 150 kids showed
strong relationship between
socioeconomic status (SES)
and cognition
6. BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF CHILD POVERTY
Study of 1,100 brains scans of kids
showed “their results showed that
those children falling on the poorer
end of the lowest income bracket
suffer exponentially severe losses
in brain development.”
Coming of age in poverty may lead
to permanent dysfunction in the
prefrontal cortex and the
amygdala—which, according to the
researchers, “has been associated
with mood disorders including
depression, anxiety, impulsive
aggression and substance abuse.”
7. • What happens when we
drastically reduce poverty by just
increasing incomes directly with
more money?
8. DAUPHIN – THE TOWN WITHOUT POVERTY
• Canada, 1970s – Everyone guaranteed an income above the
poverty line for about 5 years via negative income tax model of
basic income.
• Hospitalization rate decreased 8.5% due to less stress and
fewer injuries
• School attendance and performance improved
• Less domestic violence
• Fewer mental health complaints
9. THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS STUDY OF
YOUTH (1993-2003)
• Four years into North Carolina study, one quarter of the families started receiving
dividends of around $4,000 per year due to being part of the Cherokee nation.
• What happened?
• Fewer instances of behavioral and emotional disorders
• Boosts in two key personality traits connected to higher earnings and happier lives:
conscientiousness (less lying, more focus) and agreeableness (social comfort,
teamwork)
• Largest effects on those most deficient
• Parental relationships improved: less stress, less alcohol, more time
10. THE SOCIAL SECURITY NOTCH
• 1972 change in Social Security law that was corrected in 1977.
• Calculation change led to one group getting about $2,000 more
per year.
• People who received higher Social Security benefits ended up
with better cognitive function.
• Clinically meaningful change in the probability that someone
would be classified as cognitively impaired or as demented.
11. EFFECTS BEFORE BIRTH?
• Higher birth weights due to better maternal nutrition common
finding of increasing incomes of mothers
• EITC
• Alaska dividends
• American Income Maintenance Experiments
12. EPIGENETIC IMPLICATIONS
• Dutch Hunger winter – programmed those in the womb for obesity due to expectation of
starvation.
• Cages themselves inhibit neurogenesis through social isolation and impoverishment. Put
a primate under stressful conditions, and its brain begins to starve. It stops creating new
cells. The cells it already has retreat inwards. The mind is disfigured. When a brain is
worried, it’s just thinking about survival. It isn’t interested in investing in new cells for the
future.
• Enriched animal environments—enclosures that simulate the complexity of a natural
habitat—lead to dramatic increases in both neurogenesis and the density of neuronal
dendrites, the branches that connect one neuron to another. Complex surroundings create
a complex brain.
13. COGNITIVE IMPLICATIONS
• Indian sugar cane farmers - before harvest they are poor. After they are rich (60% of
annual income all at once) IQ changes 10 points
• Mall study - When asked to consider an emergency expense of $1,500, those with lower
incomes suffered an effective loss of 13 IQ points on tasks or loss of one night’s sleep.
When asked about $150, no such difference.
• What are the total societal effects of millions of people living every day with an effective
loss of 13 IQ points?
14. POLICY RESPONSE
• If poverty has such profound implications, and appears
to mostly be a lack of money, why not eliminate poverty
by providing people sufficient money?
• And remember, the cost of child poverty alone is over
$900 billion per year…
17. PIECES OF THE UBI PUZZLE
• The American Income Maintenance Experiments (1968-1976)
• Canada's Mincome in Dauphin, Manitoba (1974-1979)
• Universal Basic Income pilots in Namibia and India (2008-9, 2011-12)
• Studies of cash transfer programs all over the world
• GiveDirectly's work in Uganda and Kenya
• Studies of basic income size monthly lottery winners
• Alaska's annual Permanent Fund Dividend (share of oil)
• Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth (casino dividends)
• Social Security Notch
18. EFFECTS OF BASIC INCOME GUARANTEES
• No social stigma
• Primary earners spend more time job searching
• New mothers extend their maternity leaves
• Birth weights increase due to maternal nutrition
• Students focus on school, grades improve
• Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)
• Crime goes down (42%)
• Home ownership rates increase (4-6%)
• More fresh fruits and vegetables consumed
• No increase in alcohol and tobacco (19 studies meta-analysis)
• Improved cognitive functioning and personality traits
• Savings go up, debts go down
• Entrepreneurs are born and so are customers
19. WHAT IS A SOCIAL VACCINE?
• A social vaccine can be defined as, ‘actions that address social determinants and social
inequities in society, which act as a precursor to the public health problem being
addressed’. While the social vaccine cannot be specific to any disease or problem, it can
be adapted as an intervention for any public health response. The aim of the social
vaccine is to promote equity and social justice that will inoculate the society through
action on social determinants of health.
• Universal basic income is a social vaccine
for the disease of poverty.
20. “An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure.”
– Benjamin Franklin