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Could worker cooperatives be a fix for the home care worker shortage?
“We have to build a caregiving infrastructure that treats workers and beneficiaries well.”
Post-pandemic paranoia
An editorial cartoon by Jenna Luecke
Social isolation could be a factor in why more older men are dying from extreme heat
U.S. men, who are less likely to have social networks or ask for help, are proving to be more vulnerable to heat-related deaths than women.
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Environmental Health
Food banks are an unlikely line of defense during heat waves
Food pantries and meals-on-wheels organizations are taking on a new role during climate emergencies.
Climate change bites
An editorial cartoon by Jenna Luecke
Climate change isn’t India’s fault, but it is India’s responsibility
Flaming air conditioners, eggs boiling in the sand, and other signs of deadly heat
Equity
Researchers tried to fix a racist lung test. It got complicated.
The new test deems many patients of color sicker and White ones healthier.
No research about us without us?
When researchers include the people they study in the research process, outcomes improve.
A Wabanaki organization forges its own approach to addiction treatment
Its treatment and recovery centers are designed for Indigenous people recovering from substance use disorder and healing from trauma.
Global Health
Mpox offers another chance to confront vaccine inequity
Expanding vaccine manufacturing in Africa could address longstanding disease control problems.
The battle against tuberculosis will be won or lost in India
Experts say the country could be a model for the world. Instead, its TB fight has floundered.
How Kibera’s water woes vanished into thin air
An aerial piping system brings residents clean, affordable water.
Snapshots
Bite-sized views of big ideas in public health
Mental Health
One man’s recovery is helping other families through the grief of overdose deaths
“It was like a saving grace to find Levi,” said one woman after her brother’s death from opioids.
One Montana county hopes safer gun storage will change its grim suicide statistics
Young people in Montana are dying by suicide at triple the national rate.
Kids’ anxiety is on the rise. This book aims to help.
My Magic Mind is designed to be read five minutes at a time, along with a short journal entry.
Policy & Practice
Voting is good for your health. These doctors want to help.
A growing cadre of health care professionals believes civic engagement can improve quality of life.
Despite warnings, Texas rushed to remove millions from Medicaid. Eligible residents lost care.
Texas officials acknowledged some errors after they stripped Medicaid coverage from more than 2 million people.
North Carolina’s Medicaid experiment is working. Here’s how we know.
So far, the program saves more than its services cost.
Reproductive Health
Hispanic women are less likely to get PrEP treatment. A new intervention could change that.
Latinas make up 17 percent of U.S. women, but 21 percent of those living with HIV.
Adopt-A-Mom wants to eliminate pregnancy disparities in North Carolina
The program responds to racial and insurance-based inequities in maternal care in Guilford County.
Researchers look closer at the placenta
A better understanding of the placenta may help curb maternal and fetal mortality rates, but progress is slow.
Tech & Innovation
The path to more equitable AI
Health leaders discuss how to prevent public health haves and have-nots.
The cutting edge of CRISPR is in Nigeria
Christian Happi is pioneering a revolutionary approach to fighting disease.
Genomics has broad applications, and for now, broad limitations
A scientist-turned-patient finds that access issues cloud the technology’s potential.