Issue No 2

A New Vision of Health, Part 2

Features
Rapid Advancements Evolve Health Care
by Vice Adm. Michael Cowan, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy, Retired
Features
It has been said that human minds are prone to see the world through the “status quo,” to accept anything current as though it has been eternal. Our minds are also designed to be critical. We see problems, flaws and deficiencies but tend to take for granted things that work, things which stick out and...
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Airmen Wellbeing is Number One Priority
by Gen. Larry O. Spencer, USAF (Ret.), President, Air Force Association
Features
Welcome to the AFA edition of Health21 magazine, brought to you through a partnership with AMSUS, the Society of Federal Health Professionals. As AFA President, I am proud to provide our members with this new member benefit. Health21 is an educational communications and boots-on-the ground advocacy ...
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Air Force Medicine Expands Capability
by Lt. Gen. Mark Ediger, U.S. Air Force Surgeon General
Features
Medical Airmen must be prepared to deploy on short notice to provide life-saving and performance-enhancing healthcare in diverse, austere and isolated locations. In addition, all Airmen must be medically ready to deploy. More than ever, this dual requirement calls for Air Force Medical Service (AFMS...
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Departments
Environmental Risks Affect Children’s Health
by Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH and executive director, Children’s Environmental Health Network
Departments
Now more than ever, with hurricanes gaining strength from warming seas, wildfires increasing throughout the West, public health funding steadily decreasing, and healthcare for millions hanging in the balance, the need to protect the health of the most vulnerable is paramount. Children are America’s ...
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Air Force Provides Hurricane Relief Efforts
by U.S. Air Force
Departments
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season is quickly becoming notorious as one of the most active seasons on record, according to Meteorologist Domenica Davis of the Weather Channel. This is due, in large part, to an intense stretch of long-lived, destructive hurricanes occurring since mid-August, which included...
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Safer Anaesthesia in Low-Resource Settings
by Andrea Charters | Sarah Kessler
Departments
Mubarak Mohamed walked down a long hospital corridor to return a small child to the comfort of his waiting parents. The three-year-old just had cleft lip surgery. Head of anaesthesia at Edna Adan University Hospital (EAUH) in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Mubarak has led thousands of patients down this corridor...
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Columns
Legal Assistance Improves Health Outcomes
by Stephanie Fajuri, Esq., Director, Cancer Legal Resource Center
Columns
As director of the Cancer Legal Resource Center (CLC), a program of Disability Rights Legal Center, I and my team provide legal information and referrals to people coping with cancer and their families. Therefore, I am intimately familiar with the American health care system.  While some may disagree...
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Excess Money Adversely Affects Wellbeing
by Germán Bula, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, La Salle University, Bogotá, Colombia
Columns
In a time in which wealth, and therefore power, is becoming increasingly concentrated (Picketty, 2017) and control of media by the super-rich is seen as a threat to democracy (e.g Porter, 2010), it is worthwhile to examine what it is like to be rich. The following is a programmatic sketch around the...
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Online Learning Reaches Slums of Kenya
by Mark Tozzio, M-IHHS, FACHE, Adjunct Instructor, Northeastern State University
Columns
Imagine the second largest slum in Kenya, Mathare Valley slums located in Northeast Nairobi, with a population of 443,000 souls society has left behind who have no hope of a better life. Insufficient hygiene and lack of proper sanitation are everywhere. Drinking water is not available in the huts, and...
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