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Children & Youth Mental Health: Climate Week 2024

Climate for Health

Thank you to the American Public Health Association and the Climate Mental Health Network for co-hosting a session at Climate Week in New York City focusing on youth mental health.

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APHA Empowers the Public Health Field to Face the Climate Crisis at the 2024 Annual Meeting

Climate for Health

Climate change is one of the most pressing public health issues of our time. We’ve seen record-breaking heat, devastating wildfires, storms and prolonged droughts impacting our health and mental well-being.

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Addressing childhood abuse could prevent firearm violence later in life

Association of Health Care Journalists

Why this matters The studys findings present several reporting opportunities for health care journalists. Most people who are abused never engage in violence, said Jessica Heldman of Children’s Advocacy Institute during a December webinar on the report. But that doesnt mean experiencing abuse always leads to violence.

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Empowered Leadership Series: Cultivating Well-Being – Mental Health Strategies for Supervisors

Region IV Public Health Training Center

This is the first session in a 4-part webinar series that is designed to empower leaders in creating thriving workplaces. From prioritizing mental health and fostering trust to supporting employee growth and strengthening team dynamics, each session offers actionable strategies to enhance your effectiveness as a supervisor.

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Picking our battles: public health in public

Public Healthy

It was to be about my worries that we were losing the battle for ‘hearts and minds’ on what public health is, and should be, and how we are occasionally our own worst enemies. So, I started writing again, before the announcement that Public Health England (PHE) will be subsumed into a ‘new’ National Institute for Health Protection.

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Antidepressants Can Rewire Your Mind to the Point of Committing Violent Crimes

Mercola

Mental health in America is slowly deteriorating. According to a report from TIME, only 31% of adults rated their mental health as "excellent" in 2022, which went down from 43% two decades prior. As noted by Healy, SSRIs don’t actually address the mental illness, but rather "work" by changing your personality.

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‘No one can see you now’: What states are doing to boost primary care

Association of Health Care Journalists

Evidence abounds that access to primary care improves health and lowers costs. And yet, only 5% of health care spending in this country goes to primary care, less than in any other Western democracy. Freyer is a health care journalist based in Rhode Island. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island.