article thumbnail

CSTE President Angela Dunn’s Presidential Priorities Tackle Connectedness and Community

CSTE

He had no health insurance and was essentially told there was nothing the doctors or staff could do for him. I understood at that moment that I needed to go into more of a public health policy realm to affect change for people rather than just one-on-one patient care, she said.

article thumbnail

Long-Covid Patients Are Frustrated That Federal Research Hasn’t Found New Treatments

KFF Health News

RECOVER’s website says this research has led to crucial insights on the risk factors for developing long covid and on understanding how the disease interacts with preexisting conditions. This article is from a partnership that includes NPR and KFF Health News. Learn more about KFF.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

#WNTD Blog: Tobacco and Mental Health - Untangling the relationship and identifying opportunities to progress policy

Institute of Public Health

The policy analysis outlined the current policy landscape in relation to smoking and mental ill health in the UK and Ireland. We used the READ approach * (Dalglish et al, 2020) to collate and compare relevant health policies at local and national level. Health Policy and Planning 35 (10) 1424–1431.

article thumbnail

Disaggregated Data Key to Tackling Low Maternal Vaccination Rates among Boston’s Black Pregnant Population

Maternal Health Task Force

She is currently a Fellow in the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and is enrolled in the Harvard School of Public Health MPH-45 program in Health Policy with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. By: Jodian Pinkney , Infectious Diseases Physician.

article thumbnail

Fewer NC children dying at the hands of a parent or caregiver, new report shows

NC Health News

Higher risk factors Families face a lot of obstacles housing, child care, finances that can add to the stress of raising children , according to former U.S. They just have a lot of risk factors. More Coverage of Children’s Health What’s coming for 2025? And affordable child care is crucial, she said.

article thumbnail

Frontline health clinics adapt to climate challenges with assistance from a free resource

NC Health News

More Expansive Heat Preparedness Guides: Updated planning tools for patients who have specific conditions or risk factors for example, pregnant people or people who work outdoors outlining steps they can take when temperatures rise. NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

article thumbnail

The (sort of, partial) Father mRNA Vaccines Who Now Spreads Vaccine Misinformation (Part 1)

The Health Care Blog

Yet, Offit has publicly questioned the practice of giving third doses to young people with no health risk factors, and thinks that a case of COVID-19 probably should count as a dose. Offit, who is an authentic co-inventor of a vaccine, the vaccine against rotavirus, is as pro-vaccine as one can get.