KFF Health News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Several documents reflect a breakdown in communication with a subset of farm owners who don’t want themselves or their employees monitored for signs of bird flu. “We have had multiple dairies refuse a site visit,” wrote the communicable disease program manager in Weld, Colorado, in a July 2 email.

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Emergency Preparedness and Response Disease Surveillance Communicable Diseases Health Policy 145

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Much is known about the main causes of death and how mortality has been shifting from most deaths around the world being caused by communicable diseases towards most being due to non-communicable causes. Previous research has tried to document how diverse a given cause of death profile is.

Health Disparities 52

Health Disparities Health Inequalities Ageing and Health Social Determinants of Health 52

Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While this document will focus primarily on what a new Administration and Congress should do to protect and promote the public’s health, we want to highlight that government can’t do this alone. It is well documented that federally-funded, no-cost vaccines led to increased uptake during the height of the COVID pandemic.

Public Health Law and Policy Consulting 52

Public Health Law and Policy Consulting Emergency Preparedness and Response Public Health Law and Regulation Environmental Health and Safety 52

HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Several documents reflect a breakdown in communication with a subset of farm owners who don’t want themselves or their employees monitored for signs of bird flu. We have had multiple dairies refuse a site visit,” wrote the communicable disease program manager in Weld, Colorado, in a July 2 email.

Emergency Preparedness and Response 61

Emergency Preparedness and Response Disease Surveillance Communicable Diseases 61

Sheffield DPH

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Given the difficulties that traditional public health approaches have faced in controlling non-communicable diseases (largely difficulties = lack of political will stoked by food industry PR over decades). This is a well documented PR strategy. Medicalises a social issue.

Media and Health Communication 40

Media and Health Communication Health Inequalities Non-communicable Diseases Health Economics 40

Gideon

JANUARY 28, 2021

There are well-documented instances of humans contracting leprosy through contact with armadillos. 2016.09.001 [10] T Tulchinsky, and E Varavikova, “ Communicable Diseases ”, The New Public Health (Third Edition), 2014. It is estimated that only 5-20% of people are susceptible to developing leprosy.[4] 117-121, 2016.

Ageing and Health 52

Ageing and Health Communicable Diseases 52

Gideon

JULY 26, 2021

The best way to catch emerging infectious diseases early is to equip frontline clinicians with comprehensive data on all reported infectious diseases , including: a list of symptoms, the ability to compare conditions with similar presentations, and a history of global outbreaks and documented cases, country-specific notes on disease outbreaks.

Disease Surveillance 52

Disease Surveillance Communicable Diseases 52