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The Watch: November 14, 2024. Childbirth costly for many low-income Americans Low-income people with commercial insurance often have higher childbirth costs than people with Medicaid, a new study in Millbank Quarterly finds.
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Apr 6, 2023 · The Watch: July 12, 2024. Rural counties lack cardiologists despite dire need, children exposed to higher temperatures as fetuses are more likely to develop leukemia, tampons can contain lead and other metals, nearly 1K US workers died from exposure to heat and more
The Watch: November 14, 2024 - Public Health Watch
Nov 14, 2024 · Published Nov. 12 in Brain Medicine, the research found common pollutants such as fine particulate matter and nitric oxide — also known as PM2.5 and NO — can contribute to risk factors for autism spectrum disorder.. Children who are exposed to air pollution prenatally and during their first years of life are at particular risk, researchers said, as the developing human brain is vulnerable ...
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Since its founding in 2021, Public Health Watch has prompted regulatory reforms, legislation, community action, editorials and other positive developments. Our journalism has won national and regional awards. A running list of our accomplishments:
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Our Mission Public Health Watch is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization that focuses on threats to America’s well-being. We illuminate weaknesses and injustices in the nation’s health infrastructure and policies, expose inequities and highlight solutions. National in scope, we collaborate with media outlets large and small and …
The Watch: June 6, 2024 - Public Health Watch
Jun 11, 2024 · US mental health lags behind other high-income nations. Americans have some of the highest rates of mental health conditions compared with other high-income countries, but cost and other barriers often prevent them from receiving care, new research finds.. The Commonwealth Fund surveyed more than 21,000 people in 10 countries last year, finding that Australia and the U.S. have the highest rate ...
How a San Francisco Navy Lab Became a Hub for Human …
4 days ago · The Series. 1. OVERVIEW: How a San Francisco Navy Lab Became a Hub for Human Radiation Experiments + List of Studies; 🎧 Podcast Episode 1: A Community of Color Contends With the Navy’s Toxic Legacy; 🎧 Podcast Episode 2: Why the Navy Conducted Radiation Experiments on Humans; 2. THE DECISION MAKERS — After Atomic Test Blunder, Government Authorized Study of Radiation in Humans [Dec. 2]
What Trump’s Election Could Mean for Health-Care Coverage for …
Nov 1, 2024 · The stakes are high. As of June, almost 73 million adults and children, or more than one in five Americans, relied on Medicaid for affordable health care. The federal-state insurance program pays for more than 40% of U.S. births, provides supplemental coverage to 7.2 million poor seniors and insures more than 10 million people with disabilities.
Introducing Public Health Watch
Aug 16, 2021 · Today we unveil Public Health Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news site that will focus on the prevention of illness, injury and death. The timing is fortuitous, given the maddeningly resilient COVID-19 virus. But the idea of Public Health Watch has been percolating for more than two years. While we’re all preoccupied with the pandemic, […]
We can’t fix health care if we’re not talking about it
Sep 10, 2024 · Millions of Americans — nearly 1 in 12 by recent estimates — lack health coverage. In some states the numbers are much higher, like my home state of Texas, where about 1 in 6 people are uninsured.. Now, with the end of COVID-era policies that provided coverage for many low-income families, the ranks of the uninsured are growing.