BU School of Public Health Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2024
October 18, 2024 0 Jillian McKoy Twitter Facebook Breastfeeding difficulties, hypertension, depression, and sleep deprivation are just a handful of the health challenges that mothers may experience in the weeks and months following childbirth.
Black Health Matters
OCTOBER 28, 2024
We need mental health interventions and support systems that resonate with our community and acknowledge the specific barriers we face. Drawing from the 2024 Public Perception of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Poll, she shares key findings from the study. in 2022 per 100,000 people (a 26.7% in 2019 to 14.1 in 2019 to 15.9
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The Health Care Blog
JULY 19, 2022
I read the Stat News investigative piece “ Health care’s high rollers ,” by Bob Herman and colleagues, with interest but not much surprise. As Kaiser Family Foundation’s CEO Drew Altman told them, “Health care has become big business. I think I know how to fix healthcare. give or take. Yes, we should have that argument.
HEALTHBEAT
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Burnham, an assistant professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine, has long thought that standard clinical guidelines don’t match the needs of Black men, as her father was diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 50. But the U.S.
Black Health Matters
AUGUST 13, 2024
Increasingly, people under the age of 50 are being diagnosed with various forms of cancer. Today, a woman in her 30s faces a higher risk of being diagnosed with cancer compared to her grandmother at the same age, according to Scientific American. Taking Action This is a reminder that cancer doesn’t discriminate by age.
Big Cities Health Coalition
OCTOBER 24, 2024
The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), representing the leaders of health departments serving nearly 61 million Americans, calls on the incoming Administration and Congress to enhance support for local public health systems.
Black Health Matters
AUGUST 12, 2024
The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology reports that “Fibroids are more common and more severe among African American women, and African American women have fibroids diagnosed at earlier ages, are more likely to be symptomatic, and are likely to have different responses to medical treatment than White women.”
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