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What's Wrong with Our Health Care System: #538 of Infinity

Doug Hatt | Posted 01.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Media Layoffs, Layoffs, Family Health, Cobra, Health Insurance, Public Health, Blogging the Meltdown, Family Healthcare, Family, Living News
Doug Hatt

In order to qualify for this safety-net health insurance coverage, I had to go without any kind of health insurance for anywhere between 45 and 90 days. Not just me, but my wife and baby.

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Time For Regime Change in Zimbabwe

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Zimbabwe, News, Politics, Health, Kofi Annan, Raila Odinga, Human Rights Abuses, Condoleezza Rice, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Jimmy Carter, Breaking Politics News, Cholera, Public Health, The Elder Group, W.H.O., Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights, Nicholas Sarkozy, Zimbabwe Cholera, Health Care Infrastructure, Voice of America, World Health Organization, Zimbabwe Health Care, World News
Jirair Ratevosian

In Zimbabwe, the lack of medicine, equipment, services, and staff in public hospitals is resulting in preventable deaths. There is no access to care for those who cannot afford private clinics.

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Zimbabwe Health Crisis a Regional Problem

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Politics News, Zimbabwe, Human Rights Abuses, News, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Politics, United Nations, Jimmy Carter, Health, Kofi Annan, The Elder Group, Public Health, Cholera Outbreak, World News
Jirair Ratevosian

A complete collapse of Zimbabwe's health system and sanitation infrastructure has given way to a major cholera epidemic spreading throughout the country. Raw sewage is running in the streets, and medicine is unavailable.

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Zimbabwe Health Crisis "A Disaster of Unimaginable Proportions"

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, The Elder Group, Zimbabwe, Politics, News, Human Rights, Health, Cholera Outbreak, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Human Rights Abuses, Public Health, Politics News
Jirair Ratevosian

This weekend, a group including... Kofi Annan and former U.S. President Carter had to cancel a humanitarian assessment visit to Zimbabwe when the Mugabe government refused them visas.

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Transition Topic V: Free Lunch, Climate Change and Human Health

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Public Health, Tropical Diseases, Cdc, Human Health, Global Warming, Climate Change, Barack Obama 2008, Obama Transition, Green News
Jeff Schweitzer

Industrial pollution is not our only problem. Lest you believe we are isolated from environmental degradations far off in foreign lands, visit Florida.

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Health Effects of Pollution Cost California Economy $28 Billion Each Year

LA Times | Louis Sahagun | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green

Read More: California Air Quality, Economy, Public Health, Coalition for Clean Air, Los Angeles County, Diesel, Pollution, California, Health, California Air Resources Board, Green News, Environment, California Economy, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, Air Pollution, Federal Air Quality Standards, Green News

The California economy loses about $28 billion annually due to premature deaths and illnesses linked to ozone and particulates spewed from hundreds of...

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If You Doubt That There Is a Healthcare Crisis, Come to Michigan

Harold Pollack | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Health, Nonprofits, Social Services, Detroit Free Press, University of Michigan, Michigan, University of Chicago, Health Reform, Politics News
Harold Pollack

Of Detroit's 42 hospitals that operated in 1960, four remain. Locals know a thing or two about the agony of auto plant closings. Local hospital closings are also a heavy blow.

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The End of Identity Politics: A Wake Up Call for Feminists

Judi Jennings | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jeanette Rankin, Women, Social Justice, Feminism, Children, Public Health, Jane Addams, Ida B. Wells, Peace, Civil Rights, Bill Richardson, Politics News
Judi Jennings

Ask yourself when and why feminists stopped talking about peace and started talking about being tough enough to go to war, and think about what that means.

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Fast, Cheap and Easy: How Fringe Food Hurts Public Health When it's the Only Choice

Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Fringe Retailers, Fas Cheap and Easy, Fresh Food and Cities, Convenience Food Factor, Public Health, Food, Mainstream Grocers, Chatham Foods, Chicago Food Deserts, Fringe Food, Mainstream Food, Growing Power, Food Deserts, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

We consider a mainstream grocery store a place where you can support a healthy diet on a regular basis. A fringe food location is the opposite; it is not inherently bad, but when it's the primary food source, local diets and public health suffer.

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Brother, Can You Spare an Apple?

Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Chicago Food Choices, Fresh Food and Cities, Food Choices, Poverty, Roseland, Public Health, American Food Deserts, Food Deserts, National Food Desert Awareness Month, Grocery Stores, South Side Food Desert, Food, Chicago Food Deserts, Community Organizing, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

Can the market do well by doing some good? Why not? In Chicago alone we have identified a half-million-plus people who live in a Food Desert with no or distant grocery stores but nearby access to fast food.

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How to Save America $16 Billion and Spare Millions from Disease

Jeffrey Levi | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Health, Trust for America's Health, Sen. Tom Harkin, Health Care, Chronic Disease, Obseity Epidemic, Diabetes, Healthcare, Politics News
Jeffrey Levi

How do Americans expect to compete in the global economy if our workforce isn't healthy enough to be competitive? The good news is, many of the US's most prevalent medical problems are very preventable.

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The Public Health Consequences Of Thailand's War on Drugs

Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 07.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Human Rights, The Giving Life, Prison, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Public Health, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Living News
Jennifer Winstanley

In 1997, the Thai government criminalized yaabaa in the same way as heroine. As a result, the prison population doubled within four years. There are a number of public health consequences of a policy that encourages and overuses incarceration.

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Semiquaver Rest

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Health, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS Africa, Bronx, South Africa, New York City, United Nations, Politics News
Lapham's Quarterly

With an estimated 1.2 million Americans living with HIV, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS reports that the U.S. is home to "one of the largest HIV epidemics in the world."

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Gender Apartheid

Amy Coen | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Foreign Aid, Women's Rights, Fgm, Apartheid, Foreign Assistance, Ethiopia, Violation, Prenatal, Conflict, Prevention, Africa, Aids, Racism, Female, Development, Developing Countries, Public Health, Hiv, Gender, Ngo, Contraceptives, Female Genital Mutilation, Health, Sex, Health Programs, Hospitals, Communities, Sexual Education, Condoms, Living News
Amy Coen

Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.

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Some Kill with a Six Gun, Others with a Frying Pan: We Must Take Better Care of Ourselves

Harold Pollack | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Public Health, Cheesesteak, Obesity, Tim Russert, Health, Living News
Harold Pollack

What's happening to our kids mostly reflects what is happening among adults. We are becoming too fat and too sedentary, with large and growing gaps along lines of race, income, and schooling.

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Does Fat By Any Other Name Still Look Bad In Lycra?

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Ninja Warrior, David Spade, Tommy Boy, Metabo, Obese, Metabolic Syndrome, Public Health, New York Times, Weight Loss, Obesity, Japan Waistlines, Chris Farley, Harajuku, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

From the country who gave us both Harajuku and Ninja Warrior, we now get a new trend. Japan has an aggressive yet motherly new public health mission of reducing the national waistline.

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