#IDMastodon #PublicHealth @conversationuk
#influenza is a seasonal virus that emerges and peaks in winter, so with evenings shortening in 🇬🇧 it’s time to think about #fluvaccine .Countries in the northern hemisphere closely monitor flu trends in 🇦🇺 …
https://theconversation.com/flu-season-started-early-in-australia-countries-in-the-northern-hemisphere-took-note-207967?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton

Marking a landmark policy symposium, with a collective focus on planetary health equity https://www.croakey.org/marking-a-landmark-policy-symposium-with-a-collective-focus-on-planetary-health-equity #publichealth

Wired: Yes, There’s a New Covid Variant. No, You Shouldn’t Panic https://www.wired.com/story/pirola-covid-variant/ #Science/Health #publichealth #PublicHealth #coronavirus #vaccines #Science #viruses

Action on air pollution needed to reduce health impact on communities https://www.croakey.org/action-on-air-pollution-needed-to-reduce-health-impact-on-communities #publichealth

Vale Kate Moore, influential consumer health leader https://www.croakey.org/vale-kate-moore-influential-consumer-health-leader #publichealth

"When you have a disease with a huge range of severity across a population, focusing policy on average impacts is severely limited in its intelligence.

Swathes of severity are ignored. Inequity multiplies. Progress impeded. Complexity blurred. Risks for vulnerable explode."

https://nitter.net/microlabdoc/status/1701142579486523819

#covid #longcovid #SARSCoV2 #pandemic #publichealth

#cdc #covid #masks #mask #government #scam #crime #pandemic #health #publichealth #culture #politics #news

Horrific incident in Alberta Daycares.
#Alberta #Canada #cdnpoli #PublicHealth

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-horrific-food-poisoning-of-calgary-children-underscores-the/

"he led the work which described a link between air pollution and kidney disease and ­– separately – described the global and national burden of diabetes attributable to air pollution"
https://publichealth.wustl.edu/people/ziyad-al-aly/
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#PublicHealth #EnvironmentalPolicy #AirPollution
#ZiyadAlAly

NoTHiNg tO SeE hEre! ☀️🏖️

#DirtyAir: Worsening #airpollution and increased #resistance to #antibiotics are two of the world’s most urgent #publichealth concerns, contributing to millions of #prematuredeaths per year

#AcceleratingKeelingCurve #DegradingTheCommons #TragedyOfEnclosure

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/08/09/air-pollution-antibiotic-resistance-link

EUHealthGov is delighted to support a PhD researcher or ECR to attend #COMPHACRISIS workshop on #publichealth #markets #law with Dr Mina Hosseini and Professor Imelda Maher in Dublin 29 Sept!

Deadline for subsidy applications this Fri 15 Sept 5pm (UK)👇👇 https://euhealthgov.org/euhealthgov-subsidy-for-ucd-comphacrisis-workshop/

Gesundheitsschutz & Klimawandel erfordern ambitionierte Grenzwerte für Luftschadstoffe in Europa.

Die Kommission Environmental #PublicHealth von #RKI und @Umweltbundesamt hat zur Revision der 🇪🇺 Richtlinie zu Luftqualität/saubere Luft Stellung bezogen.

➡️https://rdcu.be/dlokb

Catchy title on this article. There is more to it, however, than snark.

"The results, the researchers said, suggest that the complexity of the vaccination decision may make it difficult for people with lower cognitive abilities to understand the benefits of vaccination.
'If we are to have equal care for all, we need to take into account the different ways people absorb information,' lead author Mikael Elinder, PhD, said in the release."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/smart-people-first-line-covid-19-vaccines-study-suggests 
#COVID19 #COVID #PublicHealth

Sep 08 Marjorie Taylor Greene Fumes at Republicans About 'Mask Mandates' (Newsweek) http://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-fumes-republicans-about-mask-mandates-1825688 - "Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene raged against her Republican colleagues on Friday, slamming them for failing to address mask mandates that have arisen across the nation in response to a rise in COVID hospitalizations. Posting to X (formerly Twitter), Greene described being 'shocked'" #COVID #COVID19 #publichealth

#Covid19's back, you say? As #disabled and vulnerable people know all too well, it never went away

The government’s policy is to pretend we’re getting ‘#BackToNormal’. The result is millions of us live in fear of losing our lives
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/10/covid-coronavirus-disabled-vulnerable-people
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Health #PublicHealth #MoneyBeforePeople #ToryIndifference #England

“I think this [distinction] is really important,” said Ashley Ward, director of the Heat Policy Innovation Hub at Duke University who was not involved in the study. “Most of the research around pregnant women has centered on acute events like a heat wave … but honestly, what we are all experiencing this summer is an excellent example of really what I would consider chronic heat exposure.”

https://19thnews.org/2023/09/extreme-heat-connections-pregnancy-delivery-complications/

#healthcare #pregnancy #climate #environment #heat #publichealth

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

~ Maya Angelou

#Resilience #Education #PublicHealth #Prevention #Quotes #Trauma #Teaching @academicchatter @gamingagainstv

Vax Logic 🤡
#covid #vaccine #vax #shot #jab #booster #science #math #logic #culture #medicine #publichealth #health #meme #clownworld #bigpharma #scam #crime

"The studies...looked at the prevalence of birth complications caused by chronic hypertension, or high blood pressure, in pregnant women and the rates of complications from iron-deficiency anemia...The studies found that pregnant Black women had more than double the rate of both medical issues compared to pregnant white women. That led to higher rates of pre-eclampsia, hemorrhage and other complications during pregnancy that can be fatal."

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/stanford-studies-show-difference-in-birth-complications-between-races/

#publichealth #pregnancy

"The summer COVID bump is worsening in California, with infections spreading at schools and workplaces, and hospitalizations ticking up...In Los Angeles County, the number of new COVID-19 outbreak investigations at work sites tripled in the last month, reaching 73 for the 30-day period that ended Sept. 1...At schools in L.A. County, COVID-19 outbreaks rose 43% for the most recent week data were available to a total of 33, up from 23 the prior week."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-07/summer-covid-wave-worsens

#covid #publichealth