The world is getting smaller. Increased globalization, resulting from advances in travel and telecommunications, has facilitated an ever greater mixing of people, customs and cultures, and more rapid cross border flows of goods and services, people and capital, and ideas and information.

Common Health examines the definition of public health and how it is practiced in Maine. In public health, the goal is to prevent disease or injury in a whole population a city, state or country, for example. Read the rest of this entry →