Tag Archive for: Health

EXPLAINER: What Is Happening to Our Health Care, From Heather Cox Richardson
While the focus has been on produce, FDA records show what she calls “a steady stream of recalls” that includes “prepared foods, salad dressings, soups, bakery items and ready-to-eat products,” potentially contaminated with salmonella, Listeria, or foreign materials, including pieces of metal.

RESOURCE: New Tool for People With Medical Assistance to Check 2027 Federal Requirements
People with Medical Assistance can find out now if they will need to meet 2027 federal work reporting requirements with a new tool from the Minnesota Department of Human Services.

Breathing In and Out: Another Era of Care
What could have been, had the biomedical model not been held up as the only legitimate pathway to healing?

“I Am a Victim of a Harmful Algorithm”
Many people still do not know what algorithms are, or whether algorithms are being used to deny them coverage for health services.

The Ebb and Flow of Cancer
The fear that is most palpable to me is about the changes and loss of normalcy that will come between now and the end.

Am I Afraid of Dying?
These experiences have taught me that death need not be dreaded or feared.

The Hidden Costs of Food
Something has to change in the way that modern society produces and consumes food.

VIEW: Caring for Our Essential Infrastructure
Will we support bills that value these workers with adequate training, fair wages, and benefits to show them how essential they really are?

A Global Conversation on Public Health and Pandemic Response
We have the tools — raw materials, surveillance, science, communication — to do better. “It is about political will” to make this a priority, so we don’t forget, like we did the lessons of the 1918 pandemic.

VIEW: Why We Need Public Health Education
The U.S. has the most expensive healthcare and education system in the world, but is terrible at keeping people healthy and educated.

VIEW: Why Public Health and Why Now
In this country, despite our medical/industrial complexes, we seem to have a “sick-care” system — one that is focused on treating the symptoms but not the causes

Reimagining Rural Healthcare
“How do we create a system — not a business?”


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