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Forced Sterilizations and Maternal Health in the Canadian Context

Maternal Health Task Force

Intergenerational trauma is defined as “the way in which trauma experienced in one generation affects the health and well-being of descendants of future generations”. In 1928, Alberta introduced the Sexual Sterilization Act that disproportionately targeted Indigenous women. This Act is still in consideration in the Senate.

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Coi Leray Has Announced Her The Gender of Her Baby, Just in Time for Maternal Health Week! Here’s The Importance Of Maternal Health

Black Health Matters

But during Black Maternal Health Week, she told the world she will be a Girl Mom! Common Pregnancy Health Concerns There are a few discomforts women can expect during their pregnancy. Managing maternal health in this condition is vital, as it can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm birth, birth defects, and more.

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Can We Predict Our Ability to Conceive?

BU School of Public Health Blog

For more than a decade, researchers for Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO) at the School of Public Health have uncovered lifestyle, environmental, and medical factors that may affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes. As climate change worsens, PRESTO researchers are also analyzing how the environment affects reproductive health.

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CDC Firings Undermine Public Health Work Far Beyond Washington

KFF Health News

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources. That was far from its only purpose.

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CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. The programs are designed to cultivate a new generation of public health leaders, many of whom have gone on to work at the CDC. Its purely for the safety of the public at the end of the day, Cruanes said.

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From abortion to Hurricane Helene to medical debt, here’s what drew readers to NC Health News in 2024

NC Health News

As we look back on the year that was, some of the most-read NC Health News stories included articles about Helenes effects, from its upheaval of municipal water systems to the use of cadaver dogs and other issues that arose during the aftermath of the havoc generated by the storm. Now their board will be reconfigured.