- The top 10 causes of death in the U.S. have shifted substantially in the past 115 years. Why have socioeconomic disparities persisted as causes of death have shifted from infectious disease to chronic disease?
- Provide one substantive public health critique of Dan Buettner’s “How to Live to 100+” talk.
- Why did the field of public health largely miss the opioid crisis until the 2010s? e.g. how did the medical industry avoid oversight and accountability during the proliferation of opioids in the 1990s and 2000s?
4.) How does illness narrative conflict with the medical management of chronic disease?