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Saving hearts — and farmworker lives — in the fields

NC Health News

Sharp, a Wayne County resident for the past decade, is a trained nurse with a passion for community and public health. 5, 2023, after harvesting sweet potatoes from a Barnes Farming field in Nash County — less than two weeks after starting the job. Through word of mouth, she heard about the death of seven farmworkers that year.

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Extreme heat deaths and illness spark push in NC for federal heat protection standards

NC Health News

They also lamented the death of Juan Jos Ceballos , a 33-year-old migrant worker from Mexico who died in Wayne County in July 2023 after suffering what his co-workers described as a heat stroke on a day when the heat index topped 100 degrees. Jos Arturo Gnzalez Mendoza , a 30-year-old farmworker from Guanajuato, Mexico, died Sept.

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

That represents a loss of more than 80 million years of life, according to a 2023 JAMA study. Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems. During the past two decades there have been 1.63 The design of the U.S.