By Daniel Hindman
Over the last several years, public health has become sexy. It wasn’t always this way. Prevention was boring. Who, besides your dentist, gets passionate about tooth brushing and fluoridation of the water supply? We joke every New Year about the banality of resolving to exercise, again, in order to try to lose weight, again. Public health is prevention. And prevention has not historically been popular. We avoid the doctor and the dentist because we are miserable failures at prevention.
But something appears to have changed. It’s hard to say what, exactly. Was it the Affordable Care Act? Was it LGBTQ advocacy? Ebola? Swine flu? What led to public health suddenly becoming a place for the cool kids?
What if nothing changed suddenly, though? What if this has all been a slow, steady swell?
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