Reference no: EM133395266
A quote from Dan E. Beauchamp's article, "Health as Social Justice" (1976): "Cycles of public attention to such problems as poverty, racial discrimination, poor housing, unemployment, or the abandonment of the aged, rapidly wane when it becomes clear that solving these problems requires painful costs that the dominant interests in society are unwilling to pay."
1. What do you think about the quote?
2. Provide one example of a PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE that garnered a lot of public attention (As you learned in the lecture, this can be ANYTHING that affects human health and wellness)
3. Why did you select that issue to share? (It's OK if it's just because it was recent!)
4. What happened with that issue? (e.g. did we fix the problem, or ignore it?)
5. What do you think the cost would be to fix that issue? (This can be financial, social, political, etc).