The eternal tension of public health - everyone wants a solution that they can do individually, but most of the things that work have to be implemented at a population level
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Replying to @GidMK
Could you give an example outside of the pandemic context?
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Replying to @AndreasShrugged
Obesity is a big one. Seatbelts. Asbestos. Etc
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Replying to @GidMK
Is it an established view in public health that obesity is beyond individual control and that population-wide interventions are effective? On the other two, let me play devil's economist, charge higher insurance fees from the anti-belters, pay higher wages in asbestos offices...
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Replying to @AndreasShrugged
It's not that it is beyond individual control, but that the most effective interventions are almost always societal but the most popular ones are individual
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Replying to @GidMK @AndreasShrugged
To put it in economic terms, the big issue is externalities
The person who gets a discount to install asbestos is rarely the one who then has to clean it up many decades years later!1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @GidMK @AndreasShrugged
Axel Mangelsdorf Retweeted Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is a market solution for obesity (weight watchers etc.) but the problem is that willpower is not evenly distributed in the population.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1435955296963284995?s=19 …
Axel Mangelsdorf added,
Nassim Nicholas TalebVerified account @nntalebI disagree, from statistical evidence. For many people, taking them straight to the tails reverses diabetes, cardiac remodeling, etc. We live in a hyperartificial environment & will power is domain dependent, costly in effort & unevenly distributed in the population. https://twitter.com/LIHF_Living/status/1435954408576147459 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @axelpopaxel @AndreasShrugged
Wild how "willpower" tracks almost perfectly with environmental factors such as SES and availability of healthy food
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Replying to @GidMK @AndreasShrugged
I don't understand. ses? Tracks? What is wild?
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Willpower is not distributed unevenly across society, this is an argument made by people who do not understand societal drivers of behaviour. SES means socio-economic status
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Replying to @GidMK @AndreasShrugged
I understand but I don't like your tone. So let's leave it.
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Great explanation!
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