Barry S Levy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1743625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry S Levy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry S |
| FAMILY NAME | Levy |
| SIGNATURE | LEVY B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9087-1031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The impacts of war on health, human rights, and the environment—an overview
War adversely affects health, violates human rights, and contaminates the environment. Direct health impacts of war result mainly from explosive weapons. Indirect health impacts of war, which often occur more frequently than the direct impacts, are primarily due to damage to civilian infrastructure and forced displacement of populations. These indirect impacts include malnutrition, communicable diseases, exacerbation of noncommunicable diseases, …
Beyond emergency relief: The role of U.S. foreign health assistance amid growing displacement and climate change
Victor W. Sidel (7 July 1931–30 January 2018)
Occupational and Environmental Health
This thoroughly updated seventh edition is a comprehensive, clearly written, and practical textbook that includes information on both occupational health and environmental health, providing the necessary foundation for recognizing and preventing work-related and environmentally induced diseases and injuries. National and international experts share their knowledge and practical experience in addressing a wide range of issues and evolving challeng…
Occupational and Environmental Health Equity and Social Justice: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury
This chapter describes occupational and environmental health equity and social justice in its various dimensions. Case studies are utilized to demonstrate specific issues and how to address them. Topics covered include workplace injustice, racial and ethnic discrimination, inadequate government protection, environmental exposures and health equity, environmental injustice and health disparities, and residential segregation, environmental hazards,…
Climate Change, Human Rights, and Social Justice
The environmental and health consequences of climate change, which disproportionately affect low-income countries and poor people in high-income countries, profoundly affect human rights and social justice. Environmental consequences include increased temperature, excess precipitation in some areas and droughts in others, extreme weather events, and increased sea level. These consequences adversely affect agricultural production, access to safe w…
Adverse health consequences of the Vietnam War
The 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War is a useful time to review the adverse health consequences of that war and to identify and address serious problems related to armed conflict, such as the protection of noncombatant civilians. More than 58,000 U.S. servicemembers died during the war and more than 150,000 were wounded. Many suffered from posttraumatic stress disorders and other mental disorders and from the long-term consequences …
Protecting non-combatant civilians during war
In the course of civilian life, when one person kills another, it is usually considered ‘murder’, and when someone kills many people, it is usually termed ‘mass murder’. In contrast, in the course
Lessons From Cuba’s National Health System
Kudos to Keck and Reed for their excellent article on Cuba’s National Health System.1 Their well-researched comprehensive review highlights the progress that Cuba has made—with limited resources over the past 60 years—in setting and implementing appropriate health priorities, promoting primary health care, focusing on vulnerable groups in the population, building community support, and improving health outcomes. As Keck and Reed clearly illustrat…
Tar and Feathers
The Public Health Implications of Resource Wars
Competition for resources between or within nations is likely to become an increasingly common cause of armed conflict. Competition for petroleum is especially likely to trigger armed conflict because petroleum is a highly valuable resource whose supply is destined to contract. Wars fought over petroleum and other resources can create public health concerns by causing morbidity and mortality, damaging societal infrastructure, diverting resources,…
Water Rights and Water Fights: Preventing and Resolving Conflicts Before They Boil Over
The author reflects on a shortage of fresh water which is being seen in many areas across the globe in 2011 and on the negative impact that the shortage is having on the health of many people across the globe. He suggests that a shortage of fresh water is becoming an increasingly large public health problem in many parts of the world and that world leaders are calling attention to the problem. He argues that public health workers can help ensure …
Levy and Sidel Respond
We thank Harhay for his thoughtful comments. We agree with his warning that water scarcity also affects wealthier countries, including the United States.1 As we stated in our editorial, laws and regulations, proactive cooperation, and mediation and arbitration are important approaches to resolve water conflicts before they boil over. Many examples of implementing these approaches exist in the United States, including the Interstate Commission on …
The Public Health Implications of Resource Wars
Competition for resources between or within nations is likely to become an increasingly common cause of armed conflict. Competition for petroleum is especially likely to trigger armed conflict because petroleum is a highly valuable resource whose supply is destined to contract. Wars fought over petroleum and other resources can create public health concerns by causing morbidity and mortality, damaging societal infrastructure, diverting resources,…
Homage to Janus: Looking backward and forward
Janus, in Roman mythology, was the god of gates and doors and also the god of beginnings and endings. He is often depicted, as in a Roman bust in the Vatican Museum, as having two faces, looking in
Tributes
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Opportunities for Control and Abolition
Nuclear weapons pose a particularly destructive threat. Prevention of the proliferation and use of nuclear weapons is urgently important to public health. “Horizontal” proliferation refers to nation-states or nonstate entities that do not have, but are acquiring, nuclear weapons or developing the capability and materials for producing them. “Vertical” proliferation refers to nation-states that do possess nuclear weapons and are increasing their s…
Terrorism "Preparedness": Diversion of Resources and Erosion of Trust
Terrorism preparedness has become an extraordinarily important topic in the United States, but the measures being taken in the name of preparedness have raised a number of deeply disturbing ethical issues. These include the magnitude of the resources being used, the diversion of these resources from other urgent public health efforts, and the risks to public health and to civil rights that certain "preparedness" measures bring with them
Of "Good Laws" and "Good Men: Law and Society in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1710
The teaching of occupational health in US medical schools: Little improvement in 9 years
A questionnaire survey of the 127 US medical schools was undertaken to assess the present status of occupational health teaching as a follow-up to two prior similar studies. The present study revealed that 78 (68%) of the 115 responding schools specifically taught occupational health during the 1991/92 academic year, in comparison with 50% in the 1977/78 and 66% in the 1982/83 academic years. The median required curriculum time was 6 hours in 199…
Religion, Family, and the Life Course: Explorations in the Social History of Early America
Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America
Quakers and the American Family
Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley
The struggle for workers' health: A study of six industrialized countries
The teaching of occupational health in United States medical schools: Five-year follow-up of an initial survey
A survey of 111 of the 127 United States medical schools revealed that 73 (66 per cent) specifically taught occupational health during the 1982-83 academic year, compared to 50 per cent in 1977-78. Occupational health was a required part of the curriculum in 54 per cent of the schools compared to 30 per cent in 1977-78. However, the median required curriculum time for occupational health was four hours during both academic years. Increased attent…
Water Rights and Water Fights: Preventing and Resolving Conflicts Before They Boil Over
The author reflects on a shortage of fresh water which is being seen in many areas across the globe in 2011 and on the negative impact that the shortage is having on the health of many people across the globe. He suggests that a shortage of fresh water is becoming an increasingly large public health problem in many parts of the world and that world leaders are calling attention to the problem. He argues that public health workers can help ensure …
The teaching of occupational health in US medical schools: Little improvement in 9 years
A questionnaire survey of the 127 US medical schools was undertaken to assess the present status of occupational health teaching as a follow-up to two prior similar studies. The present study revealed that 78 (68%) of the 115 responding schools specifically taught occupational health during the 1991/92 academic year, in comparison with 50% in the 1977/78 and 66% in the 1982/83 academic years. The median required curriculum time was 6 hours in 199…
The struggle for workers' health: A study of six industrialized countries
Smoking policies and smoking cessation programs of large employers in Massachusetts
To assess the current extent of programs and policies to facilitate smoking cessation among employees, we queried 128 large employers in Massachusetts in mid-1978. Eighty-four (66 per cent) responded. Fifty-four (64 per cent) of the respondents had designated jobs or work areas in which smoking was prohibited usually because of potential danger to products or equipment. Seven (8 per cent) of the employers provided counseling, and 10 (12 percent) …
Tar and Feathers
The Public Health Implications of Resource Wars
Competition for resources between or within nations is likely to become an increasingly common cause of armed conflict. Competition for petroleum is especially likely to trigger armed conflict because petroleum is a highly valuable resource whose supply is destined to contract. Wars fought over petroleum and other resources can create public health concerns by causing morbidity and mortality, damaging societal infrastructure, diverting resources,…
The Public Health Implications of Resource Wars
Competition for resources between or within nations is likely to become an increasingly common cause of armed conflict. Competition for petroleum is especially likely to trigger armed conflict because petroleum is a highly valuable resource whose supply is destined to contract. Wars fought over petroleum and other resources can create public health concerns by causing morbidity and mortality, damaging societal infrastructure, diverting resources,…
Smoking policies and smoking cessation programs of large employers in Massachusetts
To assess the current extent of programs and policies to facilitate smoking cessation among employees, we queried 128 large employers in Massachusetts in mid-1978. Eighty-four (66 per cent) responded. Fifty-four (64 per cent) of the respondents had designated jobs or work areas in which smoking was prohibited usually because of potential danger to products or equipment. Seven (8 per cent) of the employers provided counseling, and 10 (12 percent) …
Migration in Early America: The Virginia Quaker Experience
The teaching of occupational health in United States medical schools: Five-year follow-up of an initial survey
A survey of 111 of the 127 United States medical schools revealed that 73 (66 per cent) specifically taught occupational health during the 1982-83 academic year, compared to 50 per cent in 1977-78. Occupational health was a required part of the curriculum in 54 per cent of the schools compared to 30 per cent in 1977-78. However, the median required curriculum time for occupational health was four hours during both academic years. Increased attent…
The struggle for workers' health: A study of six industrialized countries
Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley
Quakers and the American Family
Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America
Religion, Family, and the Life Course: Explorations in the Social History of Early America
The teaching of occupational health in US medical schools: Little improvement in 9 years
A questionnaire survey of the 127 US medical schools was undertaken to assess the present status of occupational health teaching as a follow-up to two prior similar studies. The present study revealed that 78 (68%) of the 115 responding schools specifically taught occupational health during the 1991/92 academic year, in comparison with 50% in the 1977/78 and 66% in the 1982/83 academic years. The median required curriculum time was 6 hours in 199…
Of "Good Laws" and "Good Men: Law and Society in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1710
Terrorism "Preparedness": Diversion of Resources and Erosion of Trust
Terrorism preparedness has become an extraordinarily important topic in the United States, but the measures being taken in the name of preparedness have raised a number of deeply disturbing ethical issues. These include the magnitude of the resources being used, the diversion of these resources from other urgent public health efforts, and the risks to public health and to civil rights that certain "preparedness" measures bring with them
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Opportunities for Control and Abolition
Nuclear weapons pose a particularly destructive threat. Prevention of the proliferation and use of nuclear weapons is urgently important to public health. “Horizontal” proliferation refers to nation-states or nonstate entities that do not have, but are acquiring, nuclear weapons or developing the capability and materials for producing them. “Vertical” proliferation refers to nation-states that do possess nuclear weapons and are increasing their s…
Homage to Janus: Looking backward and forward
Janus, in Roman mythology, was the god of gates and doors and also the god of beginnings and endings. He is often depicted, as in a Roman bust in the Vatican Museum, as having two faces, looking in
Tributes
Tar and Feathers
The Public Health Implications of Resource Wars
Competition for resources between or within nations is likely to become an increasingly common cause of armed conflict. Competition for petroleum is especially likely to trigger armed conflict because petroleum is a highly valuable resource whose supply is destined to contract. Wars fought over petroleum and other resources can create public health concerns by causing morbidity and mortality, damaging societal infrastructure, diverting resources,…
Water Rights and Water Fights: Preventing and Resolving Conflicts Before They Boil Over
The author reflects on a shortage of fresh water which is being seen in many areas across the globe in 2011 and on the negative impact that the shortage is having on the health of many people across the globe. He suggests that a shortage of fresh water is becoming an increasingly large public health problem in many parts of the world and that world leaders are calling attention to the problem. He argues that public health workers can help ensure …
Levy and Sidel Respond
We thank Harhay for his thoughtful comments. We agree with his warning that water scarcity also affects wealthier countries, including the United States.1 As we stated in our editorial, laws and regulations, proactive cooperation, and mediation and arbitration are important approaches to resolve water conflicts before they boil over. Many examples of implementing these approaches exist in the United States, including the Interstate Commission on …
The Public Health Implications of Resource Wars
Competition for resources between or within nations is likely to become an increasingly common cause of armed conflict. Competition for petroleum is especially likely to trigger armed conflict because petroleum is a highly valuable resource whose supply is destined to contract. Wars fought over petroleum and other resources can create public health concerns by causing morbidity and mortality, damaging societal infrastructure, diverting resources,…
Lessons From Cuba’s National Health System
Kudos to Keck and Reed for their excellent article on Cuba’s National Health System.1 Their well-researched comprehensive review highlights the progress that Cuba has made—with limited resources over the past 60 years—in setting and implementing appropriate health priorities, promoting primary health care, focusing on vulnerable groups in the population, building community support, and improving health outcomes. As Keck and Reed clearly illustrat…
Climate Change, Human Rights, and Social Justice
The environmental and health consequences of climate change, which disproportionately affect low-income countries and poor people in high-income countries, profoundly affect human rights and social justice. Environmental consequences include increased temperature, excess precipitation in some areas and droughts in others, extreme weather events, and increased sea level. These consequences adversely affect agricultural production, access to safe w…
Adverse health consequences of the Vietnam War
The 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War is a useful time to review the adverse health consequences of that war and to identify and address serious problems related to armed conflict, such as the protection of noncombatant civilians. More than 58,000 U.S. servicemembers died during the war and more than 150,000 were wounded. Many suffered from posttraumatic stress disorders and other mental disorders and from the long-term consequences …
Protecting non-combatant civilians during war
In the course of civilian life, when one person kills another, it is usually considered ‘murder’, and when someone kills many people, it is usually termed ‘mass murder’. In contrast, in the course
Occupational and Environmental Health
This thoroughly updated seventh edition is a comprehensive, clearly written, and practical textbook that includes information on both occupational health and environmental health, providing the necessary foundation for recognizing and preventing work-related and environmentally induced diseases and injuries. National and international experts share their knowledge and practical experience in addressing a wide range of issues and evolving challeng…
Occupational and Environmental Health Equity and Social Justice: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury
This chapter describes occupational and environmental health equity and social justice in its various dimensions. Case studies are utilized to demonstrate specific issues and how to address them. Topics covered include workplace injustice, racial and ethnic discrimination, inadequate government protection, environmental exposures and health equity, environmental injustice and health disparities, and residential segregation, environmental hazards,…
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