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Voting from the ER: How health care workers are driving civic engagement

HEALTHBEAT

By the 2018 midterm elections, Schavrien and her colleague Erin Ainslie Smith had launched a hospital-wide effort to help patients register to vote or cast ballots if they were unexpectedly hospitalized on Election Day. Department of Health and Human Services. She had missed the deadline for an absentee ballot application.

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IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Institute of Public Health

IPH Chief Executive Suzanne Costello said that while significant progress was made in key public health policy areas, such as tobacco control, since 1998, both jurisdictions continue to face shared public health challenges that could benefit from enhanced North-South cooperation. In 2022, the Irish sugar tax generated €31.4m