The Health Care Blog
AUGUST 9, 2022
Doctors, lawyers, nurses, sanitation workers – none of those people can go to work if they don’t have anywhere to put their children.” . Rochelle Wilcox, CEO of a network of child care centers in Louisiana, told US News & World Report : “We are hand in hand with the economy, and we are just not respected as such.
The Health Care Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
We like to think we live in a developed country, but some 2 million people are estimated to lack clean water (and sanitation); think Jackson (MS) or Flint (MI). Clean air/water : No one in America should lack clean water/air. Even more shocking, 135 million Americans are forced to breath polluted air.
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The Health Care Blog
AUGUST 25, 2022
Without decent shelter and sanitation, and limited food and water, disease thrived. It began with the U.S. Army destroying native homes and detaining our earliest Americans in concentration camps or holding pens for several months.
HEALTHBEAT
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
It’s part of a shift in health policy toward treating Covid like other common illnesses, including RSV and the flu. Under current New York City Education Department policy , those who are experiencing Covid symptoms should isolate themselves from others and get tested. Contact him at jshen-berro@chalkbeat.org.
National Council on Urban Indian Health
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Federal Comment Deadlines : Key upcoming federal deadlines for public comment on health policies affecting Native communities. IHS will have begun distributing FY25 advance appropriations to IHS programs, Tribal Health Programs, and Urban Indian Organizations. Contract Support Costs and Payments for Tribal Leases will be funded.
KFF Health News
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Greg Kester, director of renewable resource programs at the California Association of Sanitation Agencies, said there are benefits to using biosolids as fertilizer, including improved soil health, increased crop yields, reduced irrigation needs, and carbon sequestration. Learn more about KFF.
The Hill
MARCH 3, 2025
In a forward to a 2021 book written by the anti-vaccine group Childrens Health Defense, Kennedy wrote that measles outbreaks have been fabricated to create fear to inflict unnecessary and risky vaccines on millions of children. Its not necessarily wrong, but its not forthright, Parmet said. Its a half-attempted step.
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