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What’s Wrong with This Picture? The Emergency Room
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s Project Firstline program offers training and educational resources on various infection control topics, including risk recognition and infection control…
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9 Critical Questions on Medicaid and the Latino Healthcare Crisis
Latinos are uninsured more than two times the rate of their white peers. Given that Latinos are projected to grow to 29% of the population by 2050, this lack of healthcare coverage, including Medicaid,…
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The Commercial Determinants of Health
In the last few years of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have come to appreciate the critical importance of public health. In honor of National Public Health Week 2023 (Monday April 3 through Sunday April…
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Build Health Equity with AHA’s Online Lessons and Toolkits
The American Heart Association (AHA) is working to boost health equity through a variety of online health lessons, called EmPOWERED to Serve. EmPOWERED to Serve includes over a dozen science-based toolkits…
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Why Forest Bathing Should Be on Your To-Do List
Research shows that access to nature can improve health outcomes. But walking on trails, hiking, camping, and other outdoor activities aren’t equitably accessible for everyone, such as the elderly and low-income…
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Big Steps in Correcting the Insulin Crisis
Diabetes affects millions of Americans, especially Latinos. But the cost of insulin medications to manage the disease are unaffordable. Fortunately, recent strides have helped lower the cost of…
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Germs: Not Just Surviving, But Thriving
Knowing where germs live and thrive is important for infection control in healthcare. When you understand where germs live and how they can spread from place to place and make people sick, the infection…
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COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality Among Unvaccinated and Vaccinated Persons Aged ≥12 Years
An updated COVID-19 vaccine saves lives. Vaccinated people who received an updated COVID-19 vaccine were 14 times less likely to day compared with those who received no vaccine and 3 times less likely to…
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Comment Now: Support Kids with More Nutritious School Meals!
The USDA is proposing stronger nutrition standards for school meals to give kids the right balance of nutrients for healthy and appealing meals. The new plan for stronger nutrition standards for school…
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Want to Screen Patients for SDoH? Consider These Factors
Did you know that our health is influenced by many non-medical factors? That’s right. The conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work, and age – known as social determinants of health (SDoH) – can…
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