Kopernik technology marketplace
POSTED BY: Andrea
Designing Innovative Public Health Solutions (PH290-2) is a new graduate course being taught at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. The course began on 26-Jan-2011. This site aggregates community contributions from those participating in the course and will do so throughout the semester.
Be Prepared
Even the government can get innovative sometimes …
POSTED BY: Adriana
On Friday’s PBS News Hour, David Brooks mentioned some statistics about how much people pay into Medicare versus how much they receive in medical benefits. The numbers were so different that I found them hard to believe, so I looked around a bit online.
Here is an article quoting similar statistics:
http://www.theledger.com/article/20101231/NEWS/101239960?tc=ar
“Consider an average-wage, two-earner couple together earning $89,000 a year. Upon retiring in 2011, they would have paid $114,000 in Medicare payroll taxes during their careers. But they can expect to receive medical services — from prescriptions to hospital care — worth $355,000, or about three times what they put in.”
Here is the original data:
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/social-security-medicare-benefits-over-lifetime.pdf
The data were published by the Urban Institute. According the Wikipedia, the Urban Institute “is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank for nonpartisan economic and social policy research. More specifically, it collects data, evaluates social programs, educates the public on key domestic issues, and provides advice and technical assistance to developing governments abroad. The Urban Institute measures effects, compares options, shows which stakeholders get the most and least, tests conventional wisdom, reveals trends, and makes costs, benefits, and risks explicit. … Some of the Institute’s sponsors include The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.”
POSTED BY: Jeremy
speaking of info design…
check this out, but turn off the sound (it gets annoying)
POSTED BY: Andrea
Analogies, Scaling
How can techniques of scaling (either up or down) be used to convey ideas and concepts in an understandable way?
Here (above, in the subject line) is an interesting little analogy about the federal budget.
Is you haven’t seen Charles and Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten, drop whatever you’re doing and watch it now:
(Apologies for so many posts recently.)
POSTED BY: Adriana
Things you can't do by SMS
Apparently, you can’t divorce by SMS in Tajikistan. Anymore.
It seems that there are some messages that are beyond the acceptable limits of particular media.
What I wonder: to what extent was it innovative that people were getting divorced by SMS to begin with? What legal standing do SMS messages have? Where is the formal/informal divide?
POSTED BY: Adriana
Simple Steps Reduce Sepsis Deaths
From yesterday’s Chronicle. The death rates from sepsis have gone down drastically due to a few simple changes in procedures. (Not coincidentally, the article also mentions the no-disruption sashes we read about earlier in the semester.)
POSTED BY: Adriana
Worldwide Trends in the Human Development Index 1970-2010 http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/trends/ NationMaster, a massive database and a handy way to graphically compare nations. http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
POSTED BY: Jeremy
Design Thinking for Educators
file under: case studies, edumacation
Case studies and toolkit for design in education. How does this all translate to public health?
POSTED BY: Adriana
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