Past Common Health Programs

Program Audio Archives

Please click on the links below to listen to past programs, hear news reports on the program topics, obtain contact information for guests, access links relevant to the program topics, and read text summaries of the program discussions.

2005

• January: An Introduction to the Series
• February: Clean Drinking Water
• March: Food Safety
• April: Toxics in Our Lives
• May: Community Heroes
• June Common Health: Tough Choices
• July: Workplace Health
• August: Air Quality
• September: Maine's State Health Plan
• October: Healthy Buildings
• November: Maine State Health Plan Draft
• December: What We've Learned

2006

• January: Infectious Disease-Bird Flu
• February: Homelessness-Seeking Shelter
• March: Violence, Peace, and Public Health
• April: Locally Grown Food
• May: Surviving Prom: Underage Substance Abuse
• June: Disasters and Emergency Management
• July: Fitness and the Calorie Balance
• August: Diet and the Calorie Balance
• September: School and Health
• October: Global Climate Change
• November: Substance Abuse through the Ages
• December: Inequity and Public Health

2007

• January: Sex and Public Health
• February: Creating Shelter
• March: Lessons from the East
• April: Building a Better Public Health System
• May: Not in Our Town: High School Students Speak Out
• June: Good Vibrations, Electromagnetic Emissions and Health
• July: Community Care Reaching Out to People in Need
• August: Hunger, Locally Grown Food and the Gastro-Industrial Complex
• September: Healthy Animals
• October: Healthy Buildings - Green Buildings
• November: Sanity
• December: Gifts for the World

2008

• January: Creativity, Art and Health
• February: Finding Shelter and Staying Warm
• March: On Dying
• April: Smart Growth
• April: Women's Health
• May: Clean and Sober
• June: Bike for your Life
• July: Sun, Sand and Skin Cancer
• August: Dealing with Disabilities (Rescheduled for December)
• September: Adolescent Health
• October: Bundle Up - Strategies for Staying Warm
• October: Health Care Policy for Maine (Voices Broadcast)
• November: Healthy Wildlife - Healthy People
• December: Dealing with Disabilities

2009

• January: Outdoor Recreation and Health
• February: Social and Economic Roots of Homelessness
• March: Healthy Lands and Watersheds
• April: Letters to the President
• May: Diagnosing the Health Care System: From Pathology to Prescription
• June: Colo-Rectal Cancer: Causes, Consequences and Treatment
• July: Public Health and Environment in Developing Countries
• August: Locally Grown Food: Mitigating the Agro-industrial Complex
• September: Brownfields: Recovering from Environmental Hangovers
• October: Election Referenda and Health
• November: Theater, Art and Health
• December: Spiritual Dimensions of Health

2010

• January: Postponed due to transmitter problems and blizzard
• February: Habitat for Humanity
• March: Environmental Solutions for Chronic Disease
• April: Whither Health Reform?
• June: National Walking and Bicycling Month
• July: Federally Qualified Health Care Centers: Who, What, Where, Why?
• August: Food Revolution
• September: Health and Learning
• October: Politics and Public Health
• November: Energy and Health
• December: Winter Fitness

2011

• January: Social Marketing
• February: Politics, Markets and Affordable Housing
• March: Protecting Local Agriculture
• April: Family Planning
• May: Lyme Disease
• June: Body Image, Drugs and Diet: Media and the Self
• July: A Call to Men: Ending Domestic Violence
• August: Osteo-Arthritis Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment
• September: Food Conservation: Canning, Freezing and Drying
• October: Paying for Health Care
• November: Healthy Buildings, Healthy Homes
• December: Cooking up a Feast: Healthy Holidays and Recover Plans

2012

• January: Sustaining Social Networks in Aging and Rural Communities
• February: Mainely Homeless
• March: Poison!
• April 18: Access to Health Care
• May 16: Looking Ahead: Building Communities for the Future
• June 20: Writing a Regional Strategic Health Plan
• July 18: Going Underground: Sewage and Health
• August 15: Food for Life
• September 19: Prostate Health
• October 17: Paying for Health Care - Reprise
• November 21: Homelesness and Domestic Violence in Maine
• December 19: Healthy Oceans - Healthy Communities

2013

• January 16: Healthy Homes
• February 20: Maine All Care: Solutions for the Health Care Crisis
• March 20: Snow Cancellation: Rebroadcast of Bicycle Planning Presentation
• April 17: Organic Gardening and Farming
• May 15: Active Communities
• June 19: Violence
• July17: TBA