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

NC Health News

NC Health News reached out to officials at Fort Liberty, who initially agreed to be interviewed after reading the report. More Coverage of Children’s Health What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year. They’re not a problem group, he said.

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Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

Region VII Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska Monica Goedken, MPA Monica Goedken is the Violence Prevention Coordinator and Rape Prevention and Education Program Director with the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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New report: Shortfall of big city health detectives poses serious threat to public health response

Big Cities Health Coalition

A lot of decisions about health policy and practice get made based on epidemiological data. The paucity of injury and violence prevention epidemiologists is especially striking, as unintentional injury is the third leading cause of death in the United States.

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Super Bowl Rally Shooting Victims Pick Up Pieces, but Gun Violence Haunts Their Lives

KFF Health News

So Abarca offered her an internship, helping him establish a Jackson County Office of Gun Violence Prevention, a plan he introduced in July in response to the parade shootings. .” Before the parade, Cabrera was offered a factory job where her sister worked, but she hadn’t started because her leg was still healing.

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Hospital Gun-Violence Prevention Programs May Be Caught in US Funding Crossfire

KFF Health News

As a violence prevention professional with the At-Risk Intervention and Mentoring program , or AIM, Morgan supports gun-violence patients and their families at the hospital as he did the day Green’s brother was shot. billion in funding for a wide array of violence-prevention programs through next year.

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How Kennedy’s cuts to HHS could curb 'MAHA' agenda

The Hill

health policy by banning artificial food dyes, eliminating soda from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and addressing rising rates of chronic illness such as diabetes and asthma in kids. Kennedy has talked about putting lifestyle and diet at the fore of U.S.