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Contents Acknowledgments Dedication Preface Section 1. THINKING DIFFERENTLY 1. Creating Health is Like Winning at Soccer 2. The Illusion of Clinical Success 3. Can We Reverse Course on Health? 4. A Party Trick 5. Treating Laura 6. Water Quality Violations 7. The Immigrant Experience in Hurricane Season Section 2. THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL 8. Denying Climate Change is Denying Health 9. Public Health and a President's Racism 10. The Census and Public Health 11. When We Talk About Public Health 12. The Two Degree Solution 13. The Partisan Divide Over a Soda Tax Section 3. COUNTERINTUITIVE 14. What Kills Our Kids? 15. What Data Do We Need for Health? 16. We Cannot Have It All 17. The Microbiome and the Public's Health 18. Immigrants and Private Insurance: Pay More, Use Less 19. Dying Young in the USA Section 4. A SURE ARGUMENT 20. Vaccines and Conspiracies 21. Health Systems and Public Health Thinking 22. Misconceptions about Veterans and Health 23. Immigration and the Health of the Public 24. Out of School, Out of Luck 25. Pseudoscience and Abortion Policy Section 5. FOLLOW THE MONEY 26. Income Inequality and Our Health 27. Can CEOs Save the Health of Americans? 28. The Health of the Poorest 50% 29. Can We Promote Public Health and Generate Return on Our Investment? 30. The Poor People's Campaign 31. Spending Too Much On the Wrong Things 32. Clarifying Medical Bankruptcy 33. High Pay Gets Higher, Low Pay Gets Lower Section 6. DARK THOUGHTS 34. The Story We Are Not Talking About Enough 35. Names Matter in the Opioid Epidemic 36. Pain Drain 37. Violence is a Public Health Issue 38. Mental Health and Mortality 39. Three Notes on the Opioid Crisis 40. Invest in Health, Not Death 41. Direct-to-Docs Opioid Marketing 42. Firearm Legislation Linked with Fewer Fatal Police Shootings Section 7. THE FUNDAMENTALS 43. Housing and the Public's Health 44. Food Justice 45. Guns and Suicide 46. The Smoking Gap 47. Maybe the End of HIV 48. Homelessness 49. Documenting Delays in EMS Wait Times 50. Particular Particulates Section 8. WILL TECHNOLOGY SAVE US? 51. Should Black Boxes Be Welcome in Medicine? 52. The New Elderly Surveillance State 53. Good App Hunting 54. In Social Media We Trust 55. Racial Equity in Kidney Transplants 56. Air Quality Standards Have Room to Improve Section 9. WHAT NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT 57. Broken Justice and the Public's Health 58. The Promise of Palliative Care 59. Making Aging Healthier 60. The Downside of Drinking 61. How Far Do Women Have to Travel to Get an Abortion? 62. Planning for End-of-Life Section 10. MAKING THINGS BETTER 63. Volunteering for the Health of the Public 64. Mental Health on Campus 65. Healthy Homes 66. Toward a Muscular Public Health 67. Zero Tolerance for Preventable Deaths 68. Police and the Public's Health 69. Making Strides Towards Zero 70. Cancer Survival Is (Mostly) Improving Sources