Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Sep 3, 2008	Universal Health Care Series: The Inevitability Argument
This post is Part V in a series exploring reasons to support universal health care. It would be nice if we could wave a bureaucratic magic wand to make problems go away. It would be even nicer if the antidote to the health care crisis was strengthening the freedom of choice that the...... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Sep 3, 2008	UHC Series: The Inevitability Argument
It would be nice if we could wave a bureaucratic magic wand to make problems go away. It would be even nicer if the antidote to the health care crisis was strengthening the freedom of choice that the market affords and if this actually led to greater equality. Unfortunately, freedom and...... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Aug 24, 2008	Interesting Links of the Week - August 24, 2008
Social Marketing Link of the Week What happens when you pair college students with professional video producers for National HIV Testing Day? The PSI BCC Blog highlights these creative personal PSAs (PPSAs) that reached as far as Tanzania informing people of the importance of knowing...... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Aug 18, 2008	Universal Health Care Series: The Consumerist Argument
photo courtesy of snappybex This post is Part IV in a series exploring reasons to support universal health care. You can find the other parts of the series here . If you have ever tried to closely read your health insurance policy, it is fairly complex and confusing even for the...... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Aug 15, 2008	Universal Health Care Series: The National Security Argument
This post is Part III in a series exploring reasons to support universal health care. You can find the other parts of the series here . Fences and security checkpoints versus pathogens. David versus Goliath. While it seems that one side has the brute strength and power to counter the...... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Aug 13, 2008	Universal Health Care Series: The Economic Argument
This post is Part II in a series exploring reasons to support universal health care. You can find the other parts of the series here . Number crunchers consider this: The United States spends more than any other country in the world on health care (16 percent of the national GDP)....... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Aug 11, 2008	Universal Health Care Series: The Moral Argument
This post is Part I in a series exploring reasons to support universal health care. The moral argument in favor of universal health care dictates that ensuring equality of access to health care is a moral imperative. This moral imperative can stem from religious beliefs or through...... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Aug 3, 2008	Water, water nowhere: Social marketing and the quest for access to clean water
It’s one of the most essential things to a healthy life and taken for granted by those who have it. Lack of access to clean water plagues affected people with completely preventable diseases. Argentina is the first developing country that I have lived in that has had water that you can...... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Jul 17, 2008	Making vaccines more accessible
flickr image courtesy of phitar While at a conference for my job last year, I saw a small anti-vaccine protest in front of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. The protesters were there claiming that one of the components in vaccines, mercury thimerosal, causes autism, an...... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Jul 9, 2008	My feature in the Blogger Neighborhood
Alexandra Rampy of Social Butterfly was kind enough to invite me to her Blogger Neighborhood series. You can read the feature here and check out the other bloggers that she has featured. It’s a great Who’s Who among social media, social change and social marketing blogs. ...... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Jun 22, 2008	Ignorance is bliss…maybe
One of the less frequent visitors came by the center for the first time in several months. She is a 29 year mother with three kids and an alcoholic, abusive husband. She was diagnosed in 2004 and the results from her analysis have always been normal but always at the lowest end of the range....... [view]

Creative Cause
Submitted By:   tambra Website:  http://www.creativecause.org Phone:  202-236-0371 E-mail:  info@creativecause.org	Vision:   We envision a world where the creativity potential is realized in every person to promote and do more good in the world. Using creativity to raise awareness and action on social causes, we encourage the next generation of......   [view]