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...causing people to develop an autoimmune disorder and had resulted in several deaths. The program ended abruptly on Dec. 16. Thirty years later, swine flu has reemerged as a prime health concern, with the same attendant public paranoia. This focus examines the H1N1 epidemic and its impact on the Harvard community, both in terms of the university’s public health response and student experiences of illness, whether serious or facetious. Including a Crimson article chronicling the 1976 scare, it aims to provide perspective, and poke some fun at, our current public health woes...
Public support for proposed health care legislation hinges more on how it promises to impact individuals, rather than on its potential effect on the nation as a whole, according to a study earlier this week from Harvard School of Public Health researchers...
...health policy research at the Kennedy School, said that Blendon’s results were manifest in American politics, adding that it is “absolutely true” that public opinion regarding current health reform is based more on how it affects each person individually than impact on the nation. Chandra added that what the American public wants for themselves is often in the long run good for the United States...
John M. Benson, an author of the paper, advised that proponents of health care reform persuade the public by focusing on individual impact of legislation in keeping with the study...
...think it has come to a stage where we should really make it somewhat more public,” says Venky, who is also a member of The Laboratory’s Executive Committee. “Hopefully, The Laboratory will really have some strong positive impact on not only our undergrads, but more broadly on society...