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25,000 Comments Call for Safety Reforms in a Transportation Engineering ‘Bible’

More than 25,000 public comments were submitted to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) on proposed changes to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). Our team at Salud America! developed three model comments asking FHWA to adopt a public health and Safe System Approach to reframe and rewrite the 700-page MUTCD, one of transportation …
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How a Smoke-Free Policy Protects Apartment Tenants from Secondhand Smoke, COVID-19

Does someone smoke in your apartment complex? You might be inhaling your neighbor’s secondhand smoke. Inside multifamily dwellings, secondhand smoke can travel through doorways, halls, windows, ventilation systems, electrical outlets, and gaps around fixtures and pipes. Secondhand smoke, already a cancer-causing killer of millions, also might contribute to the spread of coronavirus. While there is …
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CDC Vaccine Equity Event: Spotlight on Community-Based Organizations

This webinar introduces the new program, Partnering for Vaccine Equity, which supports national, medical, non-profit, academic, faith-based, and community-based organizations in their work to increase vaccine confidence and vaccine uptake. Subtitles and transcripts are available in English, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese and Simplified Chinese. Event contains one Spanish presentation. Panelists’ bios are available in the agenda. Program website: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/health-equity/index.html
Agenda: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/videos/vaccine-equity/Agenda_Vaccine-Equity_Spotlight-on-Community-based-Orgs.pdf
English Transcript: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/videos/vaccine-equity/Full-Transcript_Vaccine-Equity-Event_English.pdf
Chinese Transcript: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/videos/vaccine-equity/Full-Transcript_Vaccine-Equity-Event__Simplified_Chinese.pdf
Vietnamese Transcript: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/videos/vaccine-equity/Full-Transcript_Vaccine-Equity-Event_Vietnamese.pdf
Spanish Transcript: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/videos/vaccine-equity/Full-Transcript_Vaccine-Equity-Event__Spanish.pdf
Korean Transcript: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/videos/vaccine-equity/Full-Transcript_Vaccine-Equity-Event__Korean.pdf

This video can also be accessed at: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/videos/vaccines/Vaccine-Equity-Event-Recording.mp4

What Are the Risk and Protective Factors for Violent Child Death?

Gun violence and traffic crashes may seem like unpredictable events. But they are not random. They are systematic. Data reveal trends and patterns in gun violence and traffic crashes that can help us identify risk factors and protective factors. This is especially important for addressing violent child deaths. So what does the data show? Join …
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