I do not believe that many people would categorize me as a conservative person. On one point, however, I agree with some conservatives. Hollywood movies are terrible, but my reasoning behind this statement is different than most conservative people who dislike the Hollywood movie industry. A stereotypical conservative person would say something [...]
In positioning the idea of social change, several health educators have asked me if social change is ethical, with the implicit message being that individual change is either ethical or at least more ethical than social change. Given the mounting evidence supporting the dominance of social determinants of health, I believe that it would [...]
Daniel Leviton has positioned the expansion of health education and promotion to include horrendous death. Horrendous death includes acts of commission and omission. People either intentionally, either directly or indirectly, commit acts that kill other people, or they unintentionally kill other people. Daniel Leviton perceives horrendous death as preventable. Though I agree with Dr. Levition, [...]
“In God We Trust” was approved as the official motto of the United States on July 30, 1956, during McCarthyism, and, as a result, officially superseded “E Pluribus Unum.” One can ask, so what, why does this matter? From a social justice perspective, this shift in motto is very important. Moving from “E Pluribus Unum,” [...]
In physical activity research, the Talk Test is used to measure physical activity intensity. A person who is engaged in light physical activity intensity can sing; a person in moderate physical activity intensity can converse but not sing; and a person in vigorous physical activity intensity can neither sing nor converse. I believe that the [...]