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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Public Health and the Dairy Cow in the Room

KFF Health News

I write a lot about occupational health, so there’s lots of health care workers who lost their lives in covid, but also I’ve covered how many are facing long covid and PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder] because they weren’t very well protected when they were at work during the pandemic, during the peak of the pandemic.

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

KFF Health News

“It’s critical we address the social determinants of health and then try to change the equation.” The community-based clinic provides wound-care kits; physical therapy; and behavioral, mental and occupational health care. In the coming months, it plans to add bullet removal to its services.