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Public Health Practice Worth reading: Climate, football, and identity politics
February 3, 2019 Liz Borkowski, MPH

Recent pieces address the ways climate change is already disrupting lives, the “white flight” from football, advice to legislators on science, and more.

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Public Health Practice Pushing aside women’s health is nothing new, talcum powder and cancer the latest example
December 13, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 4Comment

In a commentary, “Women: Exposed and Silenced by Asbestos,” Linda Reinstein shares the stories of five women. All five died from mesothelioma while some defenders of asbestos insist it doesn’t cause cancer in women.

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Public Health Practice Worth reading: Food stamps and prescription heroin
December 10, 2018 Liz Borkowski, MPH

Recent pieces address work requirements for food stamps, deportation of Haitians, evidence on prescription heroin, and more.

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Public Health Practice Missed opportunity for Lung Cancer Awareness Month
November 9, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH

It’s Lung Cancer Awareness month and Texas Oncology fumbled its prevention message by failing to mention the pollutants that cause many cases of lung cancer.  

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Public Health Practice Looking at “shift work” as a challenge (or opportunity) to better manage diabetes
November 9, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH

New research tells us that occupational medicine physicians need and want information to better care for a particular category of diabetic patients: those who work night or rotating shifts.

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Public Health Practice Two perspectives on reducing US maternal mortality
November 4, 2018 Liz Borkowski, MPH 1Comment

Last week, two opinion pieces highlighted solutions to the US’s shameful rates of maternal mortality, and the appalling racial disparities in risk of death during and after childbirth.

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Public Health Practice Manual laborers, paid leave, and oral health
October 18, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH

A new paper explores the relationship between paid leave among manual laborers and preventive care, including dental services.

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Public Health Practice Worth reading: Kavanaugh and other threats
October 15, 2018 Liz Borkowski, MPH

Recent pieces address the implications of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court; treating antibiotics as a kind of infrastructure; the new climate change report; responding to Hurricane Michael; and more.

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Public Health Practice Journalist Ken Ward, Jr. awarded prestigious “genius grant,” community health and worker safety his forte
October 5, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 1Comment

I’ve often thought of journalist Ken Ward, Jr. as a genius. Now it is official.

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Public Health Practice Worth reading: Pesticides, diapers, and public health lessons from the hajj
August 27, 2018 Liz Borkowski, MPH

Recent pieces address the EPA’s sudden hostility to pesticide science, low-income parents’ struggle to get enough diapers, testing an infectious disease early-warning system at the hajj, and more.

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