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A Collaborative Vision for Public Health in 2024

The Network for Public Health Law

In the face of challenging social and political dynamics affecting critical public health issues, including reproductive health care access ; restrictions on public health authority ; the ongoing opioid overdose crisis ; climate change ; and persistent health inequities, we continue to strive to improve the health and well-being of all.

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What journalists should know about race-based prescribing

Association of Health Care Journalists

Prevalent implicit bias in health care can create racial differences in rates of prescriptions to treat pain or substance use disorders. Prescribing drugs differently based on race or ethnicity can cause or heighten health inequities.