Today, a young American woman between the ages of 25 and 34 face higher mortality rates than at any other point in more than 50 years. And had the mortality rate remained flat between 2000 and 2021, nearly 40,000 young women would not have died.
~Sara Srygley of PRB
Yep. I made the team triple check the data before we published anything. But it's true.
Part of the story is pandemic deaths, but a lot is rising rates of suicide, homicide, pregnancy-related mortality--and a whole bunch of other things that were going in the wrong direction before 2020.
Jonas Salk, the virologist who developed one of the first polio vaccines, famously said it would not be right for anyone to patent it, asking: "Could you patent the sun?" Salon took a look at his life and work, and spoke to his son, Dr. Peter Salk of the University of Pittsburgh's School of Public Health, about the lessons we can learn from him.
@CultureDesk@histodons This does not at all make sense; the vaccine man would be well aware that anti-vaxxing imbeciles have been around since we figured out small pox, let alone polio.
It just so happens that about 8% of the public is genetically predisposed to being against vaccines, and 1% of it is willing to make a comfortable middle class lifestyle from selling lifestyle to that 8.
Popular discussion of the harm caused by guns focuses on deaths, overlooking non-fatal injuries. But for every kid in the U.S. who dies from a shooting, 2 more are treated for bodily harm.
it's that time of year where we will soon spend a lot of time indoors, and have a lot of gatherings with family and friends, so to protect them and engage safely, be sure to get vaxxed up!
check out this updated COVID19 resource. It's from a Center for Independent Living so it's made by #Disabled folks (w/ #PublicHealth background) and centers disabled people.
⭐ The Superintendents from the 3 school districts in the El Paso region are attending this weekend's benefit!
🎓 We are eager to continue our work with school systems in an effort to engage students about important issues like consent, healthy relationships, and teen dating violence!
This week I talk to Kaytlin Bailey, host of The Oldest Profession Podcast, about the American Plan, under which tens of thousands of women were detained based on their perceived ability to spread VD, all in the name of protecting American soldiers.
Streaming across all major platforms & directly from our website at dirtysexyhistory.com/podcast
"As chatter and images about guns and violence slip into the social media feeds of more teens, viral messages fueled by “likes” can lead to real-world conflict and loss.
This illustrated report has been adapted from a KFF Health News article, "All We Want Is Revenge’: How Social Media Fuels Gun Violence Among Teens,” by Liz Szabo."
The Children's Partnership has released a community outreach toolkit, ALL IN to Keep Kids Covered, designed to help schools, child care providers, and other child and family champions share information about the Medi-Cal renewal process with families.
NEW research finds maternal COVID-19 infection during pregnancy causally, and substantially, increased the risk of preterm birth—an infant outcome with lifelong consequences for health and socioeconomic well-being.
An electronic platform may be a suitable tool to augment public health contact tracing activities by allowing participants to select an online platform for contact tracing rather than sitting for an interview.
There's a free webcast tonight from the National Humanities Center on Public Health Literacy that might interest many of you:
Beyond “Just Follow the Science”: Concepts and Tools for Teaching Public Health Literacy in the Classroom, led by historian Nancy Tomes. Learn strategies to develop new forms of public health literacy.
As Medicaid unwinds... Before the pandemic expanded Medicaid coverage, ~30% of prenatal Medicaid enrollees had lapses in Medicaid coverage by 9-10 months postpartum. State postpartum Medicaid extensions could prevent a return to prepandemic rates of postpartum coverage loss. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37406233/