ABSTRACT
In the name of improving American public health, the American Public Health Association (APHA) in the early 1980s strongly supported the communist Sandinista regime that had taken over the Nicaraguan government. The public health establishment did not restrict its agenda to foreign policy. Despite the praise given nationalized health care by the public health establishment, the truth is that it is no more efficient than government-run programs in general. Professor John Graham of Harvard University's School of Public Health is one of the nation's top experts in risk analysis — the science of evaluating the health risks involved in various kinds of behaviors, from smoking to driving without seatbelts, to living in poverty. The APHA makes numerous statements regarding the relationship between economic conditions and public health. The public health establishment's position on international trade, therefore, is to support a form of veiled protectionism.
