Policy & Practice
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Policy & Practice
To break cycles of trauma, we need family-friendly addiction treatment
The surging number of children of opioid users in foster care is leading to worse health outcomes.
Could the media stop avoiding public health, please?
Politicians are ignoring the greatest public health crisis in a century, and journalists are letting them.
Public health vs. politics
Increasingly, people’s health choices align with their political identities rather than medical advice.
Superbugs and hurricanes
Hurricane preparedness needs to account for bacterial threats.
Universal health care may drive the vote in Puerto Rico
U.S. regulations once undid Puerto Rico's first pass at universal care. A new political alliance gives it another chance.
Avoiding discussion of vaccine side effects isn’t pro-vaccine. It’s anti-science.
“I wear no tin-foil hat. I’m asking for the ability to officially document what happened to me.”
Poor diets are killing us. Better spending on nutrition research can help.
We need a funding model that allows for high-quality, long-term research.
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.”