This is a fascinating read from The Bulletin of the Atoimc Scientists – A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history. How and why it happened and what parallels are applicable today.
This highly cited article – Pandemics Throughout History – merits a perusal.
This site from the National Institutes of Health offers “A glossary of terms used to describe the science of climate change and its impacts on human health. The goal of this glossary is to help standardize language, enable data harmonization, and encourage clear communication on climate change and health among scientists, health care providers, policymakers, advocates, educators, and others.”
One can search by keyword or category; each entry points out related terms and categories as well.
This site – Latino and Hispanic American Health – acts a gateway to numerous governmental organizations that are replete with information for these groups. You can find clinical trials, current journal articles that are free of charge, statistics and research, and so much more.
A very extensive listing of resources (along with their links) is provided by Rutgers.
Health disparities in New Jersey are found at the New Jersey State Health Assessment Data page.
For statistics, articles, and other features, please consult Latino and Hispanic American Health. Thousands of full text medical articles can be found courtesy of PubMed Central.
Other worthy sites include: Profile: Hispanic/Latino Americans (Office of Minority Health); Health of Hispanic or Latino Population (National Center for Health Statistics); Latino Health Disparities (League of United Latin American Citizens); Health Insurance Coverage by Race and Hispanic Origin: 2021 (Census Bureau); and Poverty Rate by Race/Ethnicity (Kaiser Family Foundation).
Maybe for the next time, and you know there’ll be a next time, we should all have a look at Wildfire Smoke: A Guide for Public Health Officials. Additional information can be found here.
This CRS report provides some answers as does this site from the University of Pittsburgh.
Sleep deprivation is a real thing, from stressed-out students to overworked employees. This new study bears witness to the deleterious effects that the lack of proper sleep creates – A Nationally Representative Survey Assessing Restorative Sleep in US Adults. Get your shut-eye!
With the ongoing strikes in France over raising the pension-eligible age from 62 to 64, a comparison with OECD and G20 countries is warranted. Recourse to the 2021 Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index is also recommended; the U.S. is only mediocre in the standings.
Two reports from the CDC highlight the precarious nature of the nation’s health as drug abuse is clearly on the increase. The facts and figures make for sobering reading.
Hispanic/Latino Health in the United States from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services contains a great deal of information across a vast spectrum of health-related issues from cancer to obesity. Each topic under examination is accompanied by relevant links to the original documentation. There is an accompanying pathfinder with extensive links to various publications/reports/programs.
This report – The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the
COVID-19 pandemic – concentrates on the failure of international cooperation/organization and offers “…to contribute to a new era of multilateral cooperation based on strong UN institutions to reduce the dangers of COVID-19…”(1)
It highlights ten areas that need oversight and offers new approaches to deal with these problems.
A 59% decrease in child poverty over the past decades is highlighted in this report from ChildTrends. This document is replete with graphs and statistics showing the dramatic reduction in this troubling socioeconomic indicator.
Deaths from COVID, drug overdoses, and other health-related causes have once again forced the life expectancy in this country down, according to this report from the CDC. Here is a good explainer of the report.
As monkeypox dominates headlines today, here are some sites that provide timely, accurate information:
The CDC has a site devoted to this cousin of smallpox (not nearly as fatal); a report from its MMWR, dated August 5 and entitled Epidemiologic and Clinical Characteristics of Monkeypox Cases — United States, May 17–July 22, 2022 is available online;
PubMed Central offers dozens of articles from 2022 on this virus, among them – The changing epidemiology of human monkeypox—A potential threat? A systematic review, Monkeypox: A Comprehensive Review of Transmission, Pathogenesis, and Manifestation, and Monkeypox: A Contemporary Review for Healthcare Professionals;
RSS feed from PubMed on monkeypox;
The Congressional Research Service has issued U.S. Domestic Response to the 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak
Springer Publications is offering a curated collection of freely accessilbe articles , including Nature;
As is Elsevier;
As is The Lancet;
As is Nature;
As is Oxford University Press;
StatPearls has released Monkeypox;
The Kaiser Family Foundation has Key Questions About the Current U.S. Monkeypox Outbreak;
WHO has a monkeypox section
This recent article in JAMA is the result of systematic literature reviews. Find out what the results are.
The NAS is pushing for a transparent, independent inquiry based on the facts that much of the data gathered by the intelligence community has not been made public, and that the NIH (National Institutes of Health) has not been forthcoming with the information it gleaned from its own research.
To quote:
This lack of an independent and transparent US-based scientific investigation has had four highly adverse consequences. First, public trust in the ability of US scientific institutions to govern the activities of US science in a responsible manner has been shaken. Second, the investigation of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 has become politicized within the US Congress (5); as a result, the inception of an independent and transparent investigation has been obstructed and delayed. Third, US researchers with deep knowledge of the possibilities of a laboratory-associated incident have not been enabled to share their expertise effectively. Fourth, the failure of NIH, one of the main funders of the US–China collaborative work, to facilitate the investigation into the origins of SARS-CoV-2 (4) has fostered distrust regarding US biodefense research activities.
As the Omicron variant pervades the working force, many companies have halted or altered their return-to-work plans. This is an updated list of what major companies are annoucing. And when workers do go back, here is a checklist of what must be done to keep employees as safe as possible.
As compiled by U.S. News & World Report utilizing various criteria, here are the top-ranked hospitals in New Jersey. This is a subset of the magazine’s national rankings. One can search by name, geographic location, and specialty.
Here is an updated listing of the more than six hundred institutions requiring vaccinations for on-campus students; NJCU is one of them. This survey report outlines responses to the rise of the Delta variant.
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