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"In her resignation letter, Kimberly Terrell accused the university of sacrificing academic freedom to appease Louisiana’s Republican Gov. Jeff Landry. Terrell, the director of community engagement at Tulane’s Environmental Law Clinic claimed the clinic had been 'placed under a complete gag order' that barred her from making public statements about her research."

https://apnews.com/article/cancer-alley-tulane-university-researcher-resigns-0bca439d1c93049e24f7ed3708a7f81d

#PublicHealth #environment #cancer #AirPollution #disparities #equity #LawSchool #academia #tulane

(02 Apr) Hit Hard by Opioid Crisis, Black Patients Further Hurt by Barriers to Care

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/ki1yc

Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/sTewA ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/hhtln

#disparities #north-carolina #opioids #pharmaceuticals #public-health #race-and-health #states #substance-misuse #systemic-sickness

Hit Hard by Opioid Crisis, Black Patients Further Hurt by Barriers to Care

New: Why Women Have More Difficulty With Sleep—and What To Do via @forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2025/03/10/why-women-struggle-with-sleep-tips/ #Sleep #SleepAwarenessWeek #SocialJustice #Disparities #Women

Attention-Worthy Links for December 4th, 2024

https://bit.ly/awl120424

#Open #Data #Policies #disparities #Springer #Figshare #KIMM #magnetic #material #3D #printing #parks #effective #reducing #pollution #intrusions #hackers #FBI #CISA

@maxvalue Vermutlich, damit die Mehrheit nicht sieht, dass einer Minderheit der Großteil der Landflächen gehört. #disparities

#Research Article
The #bias #algorithm how #AI in #healthcare exacerbates #ethnic and #racial #disparities – a scoping review
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13557858.2024.2422848

New NHANES data from @cdcgov document an ongoing rise in #diabetes and improving rates of diagnosis, but #disparities for persons with #obesity.
https://conscienhealth.org/2024/11/the-ongoing-rise-in-diabetes-mirroring-obesity-trends/

#Black #Americans still suffer worse #health. Here’s why there’s so little progress;
The #UnitedStates has made almost no progress in closing #racial health #disparities despite promises, research shows

https://www.salon.com/2024/10/31/black-americans-still-suffer-worse-health-heres-why-theres-so-little-progress_partner/

How the world can escape the new Gilded Age
"If #unaccountable #billionaires already wield too much #undue #influence, the last thing we shld want is to give them even bigger public forums -- eg, Musk now has thru his ownership of X. Instead, we shld pursue stronger institutional means of limiting the #power & influence of those who are already privileged, as well as reconsider e #tax, #regulatory & spending #policies tt created such massive #disparities in the 1st place"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2889948/how-the-world-can-escape-the-new-gilded-age

🆕📰 New Study

Hardest Hit by Heat: Study Exposes Racial Disparities in U.S. Mortality Rates

A recent study by Risto Conte Keivabu, Ugofilippo Basellini, and @ezagheni examines how extreme temperatures in the U.S. affect #mortality among different racial groups and found that both cold and hot days increase mortality rates disproportionately affecting underrepresented populations.

Read all:
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/hitbyheat

#ClimateChange #Health #Disparities #PublicHealth #Climate #Heat

In a perverse way, #policies to address #obesity have been effective in the U.S. But only for specific communities. So #disparities have grown. The difference is #environments that promote obesity, says new research
https://conscienhealth.org/2024/07/reserving-obesity-for-rural-poor-black-and-hispanic-persons/

Is good #healthcare (or #ObesityCare) in the midst of great social, economic, and health #disparities? Not everything is healthcare, but housing, nutrition, and economic security have huge effects on health.
https://conscienhealth.org/2024/07/welcome-to-disparity-health-where-health-is-everything/

The food-is-medicine crowd tells us they're giving the #AmericanDiet a grade of D – up from an F. But seriously, how valid are such generalizations in a country of such #diversity and #disparities?
https://conscienhealth.org/2024/07/the-american-way-of-eating-and-living-with-our-neighbors/

#Congress want to know why there are fewer #LGBTQ+ #homeowners than #straight: 'Concerning #disparities'

Twenty #US #representatives are demanding to know about the #homeownership "disparities" between LGBTQ+ people and their #straight, #cisgender #peers.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Homelessness #HousingInsecurity #Representation #Culture

https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/lgbtq-homeowner-disparities-congress-letter

Report: "**Commercial** (read it again — let it sink in) Determinants of Non-communicable Diseases in the WHO European Region" — plus some ways to resist / respond.
https://canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/06/20/the-who-says-corporate-greed-is-causing-millions-of-preventable-deaths
h/t @skua @shonin@mastodon.world
https://mastodon.social/@skua/112668861043452283
#PublicHealth #NCD #NCDs #Disparities #PublicPolicy #Health #HealthPolicy

'Statistical Inference for Fairness Auditing', by John J. Cherian, Emmanuel J. Candès.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v25/23-0739.html

#fairness #disparities #subpopulations

Spatial #disparities in the #mortality #burden of the #covid19 #pandemic across 569 #European regions (2020-2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48689-0

Excess mortality can be used as an indicator of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, the authors estimate excess mortality in 569 European regions in 25 countries for 2020 and 2021 and describe how impacts changed over time.

🆕 📰Reducing #childhood #obesity in low-income families could help lessen emotional issues in early teens: Maria Gültzow "Childhood obesity's influence on socioeconomic #disparities in young adolescents’ mental #health" in Annals of #Epidemiology Read all: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1047279724000486?via%3Dihub

#COVID19 Hospitalization in Hawaiʻi and Patterns of Insurance Coverage, Race and Ethnicity, and Vaccination | Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2818123 “This cohort study of 1176 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 found no association between type of insurance coverage (commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, uninsured) and hospitalization outcomes; however, significant #disparities were observed among different races and ethnicities and at… (1/2)