It goes without saying that access to clean air is an important part of being healthy. And while smoking rates have fallen in recent years in the U.S., secondhand smoke exposure remains a serious health threat linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide every year. In the U.S., the threat is … Read More […]
The Allegheny County jail could significantly increase its mental health staffing and provide more training about use of force and restraint under a proposed settlement filed Tuesday in federal court. The agreement, which still requires a judge’s approval, would resolve a class action that accused … Read More Health
The Allegheny County jail could significantly increase its mental health staffing and provide more training about use of force and restraint under a proposed settlement filed Tuesday in federal court. The agreement, which still requires a judge’s approval, would resolve a class action that accused … Read More Health
Millions of U.S. children recently experienced chronic absenteeism from school due to injury, illness or disability, with data indicating white and Hispanic children and those from the lowest-income households were more likely to miss class because of such factors. The findings come from a report Read More Health
Millions of U.S. children recently experienced chronic absenteeism from school due to injury, illness or disability, with data indicating white and Hispanic children and those from the lowest-income households were more likely to miss class because of such factors. The findings come from a report Read More Health
DUBAI (Reuters) – At least 30,878 Palestinians have been killed and 72,402 have been wounded since Oct. 7 in Israel’s military offensive on Gaza, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Friday. (Reporting by Clauda Tanios; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne) Copyright 2024 Thomson Reuters. Read More Health
Efforts to increase diversity, equity and inclusion may have lost some of their “flashiness” of late, but a prominent public health leader says commitments to the process remain as organizations strive to achieve greater health equity. Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, the former chief medical executive for the … Read More Health
The head of the largest organization in the U.S. representing African American physicians and their patients says empathetic leaders who are willing to embrace diverse viewpoints are critical to advancing equity at a time when momentum to do so has slowed. Dr. Yolanda Lawson, president of the Read More Health
The head of the largest organization in the U.S. representing African American physicians and their patients says empathetic leaders who are willing to embrace diverse viewpoints are critical to advancing equity at a time when momentum to do so has slowed. Dr. Yolanda Lawson, president of the Read More Health
Leading voices in health care convened in Washington, D.C., this week for a two-day summit focused on the future of health equity, taking aim at topics like addressing health opportunities and threats and how connection and collaboration can accelerate the pace of needed change. Among those taking … Read More Health
