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Government Public Health’s Role in the Current Ideological Moment
March 17, 2021 The Pump Handle 1Comment

The determinant of health that likely has the greatest impact on public health and health equity may be the one most public health professionals have the least to say: the ideological direction of the country.

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Health Equity Treating Racism and Police Violence with the Necessary Urgency
June 6, 2020 Liz Borkowski, MPH 8Comment

Why did George Floyd’s killing set off nationwide demonstrations, and what message should we take from them?

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Health Equity Worth reading: Abortion bans, rural hospitals, and Ebola emergency
May 19, 2019 Liz Borkowski, MPH

Recent pieces address abortion bans’ impacts, defending science against attacks, the decision about declaring an Ebola emergency, and more.

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Health Equity For Mother’s Day, Addressing Black Maternal Health
May 12, 2019 Liz Borkowski, MPH

New figures from CDC give an updated look at the awful racial disparities in US maternal mortality, while new proposals offer solutions.

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Health Equity Black Maternal Health Week 2019: Taking steps in Congress, states, and beyond
April 14, 2019 Liz Borkowski, MPH

It’s Black Maternal Health Week. Actions in Congress and state Medicaid programs can help address the awful racial disparities in maternal mortality, but we also need comprehensive solutions to racism and inequity.

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Children's Health County Health Rankings: Big health gaps persist by race and place
March 16, 2018 Kim Krisberg

This year’s County Health Rankings elevate the intrinsic connections between health and opportunity, underscoring the considerable inequities that put certain communities at greater risk of poor health and disease.

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Health Equity Worth reading: Life-threatening illness, bargaining chips, and “a president who loathes the civil service”
February 6, 2018 Liz Borkowski, MPH

Recent pieces address different outcomes for those who face potentially fatal conditions, treating women’s lives as bargaining chips, the fate of science — and one specific analysis of tipped workers’ income — under the Trump administration, and more.

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