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December 21, 2015
This past year illustrated perhaps even more intensely than ever the ways in which population health is influenced by upstream factors. Countries all over the world continue to grapple with the health consequences of sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy diets linked to the ways in which we have organized transportation, work, and the production and distribution of food. At the same time a mind blowing number of people all over the globe lack something as simple as access to clean water. Average world temperatures continue to increase at an alarming pace (just here in Philadelphia last week over 60 degrees in December!). Inequalities in health by race, ethnicity or social class remain unacceptably large in many countries including the United States. But these challenges also present opportunities for public health. As we end 2015 take a minute to read about some of the ways we at the Dornsife School of Public Health are working to improve population health through evidence and action, here and abroad. And as we start a new year, let us redouble our commitment to create the policies and environments necessary for the health of all of us.
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