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Recommended by Lorena Sprager (Region 10):

Link: https://nam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NAMPerspective_BeyondTranslation.pdf

Title: Commentary Beyond Translation: Promoting a New National Standard for Equity in Health Materials Translated from English Lorena Sprager, Lorena Sprager and Associates, LLC of the Clear Language Group, and Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., Executive Director, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health

Recommended by Gail Brandt (Region 10):

The renowned oral historian turns his attention to the aspirations of "the American century."

I feel there's gonna be a change, but we're the ones gonna do it, not the government. With us there's a saying, "La esperenza muera ultima. Hope dies last." You can't lose hope. If you lose hope, you lose everything.—Jessie de la Cruz, retired farm worker

Studs Terkel's marvelous oral histories have hitherto dealt with specifics, as he puts it "the visceral stuff — the job, race, age and death." While Terkel's chosen theme here, the incandescence of hope, might at first appear elusive, it is anything but abstract. For Terkel, hope is born of activism, commitment, and the steely determination to resist.

The spirit of activism has ebbed and flooded through Terkel's venerable life. In the Great Depression of the 1930s he recalls a man swinging from a chandelier at the Astor Hotel shouting for "Social Security!" In the 1960s it was African Americans and students who advocated for equal rights and an end to maladventure overseas. And now, in a new century, young and old are joining forces on the streets to say no to war. The spark of activism is igniting the precious idea of a better world once again.

The interviews in Hope Dies Last constitute an alternative history of the "American century," forming a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today.

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A Public Health Perspective on Health Care Reform

Micah L. Berman
Ohio State University August 26, 2011 21 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 353 (2011) 

Abstract:      This article (to be published in Health Matrix) argues that the Affordable Care Act has constructed the concepts of “prevention” and “public health” in a limited and narrow way. The law reflects an “individualist/biomedical paradigm” of preventive health that favors policy solutions that either assist individual patients to make better health-related choices or rely on biomedical screening and testing. This policy-making paradigm largely ignores the research of public health scholars indicating that the most effective interventions operate at the population level and focus on the environmental risk factors that contribute to disease. The article examines various provisions of the Affordable Care Act and demonstrates how they attempt to alter individual decision-making while leaving the broader social and environmental context unchanged.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 32

Keywords: Health Care Reform, Public Health, Public Health Law, Workplace Wellness

Link to article: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1917706