{"id":3001,"date":"2002-11-07T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2002-11-07T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2002-11-07T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2002-11-07T09:30:10","slug":"check-out-the-bloviator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=3001","title":{"rendered":"CHECK OUT THE BLOVIATOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great stuff today:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bloviate.blogspot.com\/2002_11_03_bloviate_archive.html#84173051\" target=\"browser\">Here:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The new &#8220;International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification&#8221; for 2003 (or ICD-9-CM, for short), the federally mandated bible of medical diagnosis and treatment codes, includes a rather regrettable new category: Section E979, which describes deaths from terrorist acts, including nuclear attacks.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and <a href=\"http:\/\/bloviate.blogspot.com\/2002_11_03_bloviate_archive.html#84170753\" target=\"browser\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Those who put together the APHA Guiding Principles, which were, in part, meant to help spark interest in increased funding for public health interventions, saw these as the top 3 public health priorities (at least, that&#8217;s how they numbered them in the report):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1) Address poverty, social injustice and health disparities that may contribute to the development of terrorism.<br \/>\n2) Provide humanitarian assistance to, and protect the human rights of, the civilian populations of all nations that are directly or indirectly affected by terrorism.<br \/>\n3) Advocate the speedy end of the armed conflict in Afghanistan and promote non-violent means of conflict resolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>#4 was strengthening the public health infrastructure, workforce, and other components of the public health system.<br \/>\nDo I think the public health community can serve as a voice for issues 1 through 3? Sure. But I would argue that, when the foundation of our own house needs to be completely refurbished, that describing those three priorities as our top 3 priorities will not only hinder our effectiveness in taking care of what needs to be done in case of a bioterror attack, but also may hamper our efforts to advocate for, acquire and maintain funding for other non-terror-related core functions of public health.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All the soccer moms and dads who thankfully voted <b>&#8220;yes&#8221;<\/b> on B and took a step toward saving the trauma system didn&#8217;t vote to support airy generalizations about social justice and conflict resolution.<br \/>\nThose issues are certainly damn important, but in a world where institutions are failing to deliver on their basic goals, and more importantly where their legitimacy is compromised by their failure to deliver, this is a awfully stupid thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great stuff today: Here: The new &#8220;International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification&#8221; for 2003 (or ICD-9-CM, for short), the federally mandated bible of medical diagnosis and treatment codes, includes a rather regrettable new category: Section E979, which describes deaths from terrorist acts, including nuclear attacks. and here Those who put together the APHA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}