Public Health

Rapid Burnout, Dissatisfaction Of U.S. Doctors Threatens Public Health Crisis

September 30, 2016 Alexander Reed Kelly, www.truthdig.com Educate! Capitalism, Healthcare, Medicine, Privatization, Public Health

By Alexander Reed Kelly for Truth Dig - Half of U.S. physicians are “disengaged, burned out, and demoralized and plan to either retire, cut back on work hours, or seek non-clinical roles,” reports MedPage Today, citing a new nationwide survey commissioned by The Physicians Foundation. “Many physicians are dissatisfied with the current state of the medical practice environment and they are opting out of traditional patient care roles,” said Walker Ray, MD, president of The Physicians Foundation, in remarks that appeared with the survey.

War On Drugs Harmed Public Health: Report

March 31, 2016 Vik Adhopia, www.cbc.ca Create! Public Health, War On Drugs

By Vik Adhopia for CBC News - The war on drugs has failed, fuelling higher rates of infection and harming public health and human rights to such a degree that it's time to decriminalize non-violent minor drug offences, according to a new global report. The authors of the Johns Hopkins-Lancet Commission on Public Health and International Drug Policy call for minor use, possession and petty use to be decriminalized following measurably worsened human health.

Harm Reduction Drug Policies Gaining Momentum

February 28, 2016 Sharda Sekaran, www.drugpolicy.org Create! Criminal Justice, Drug War, health, Public Health

By Sharda Sekaran for Drug Policy Alliance. United States - It’s been a groundbreaking month in the national dialogue about opiate dependency and addiction. From halls of government to family living rooms, the country is positioning for a dramatic shift in attitudes about drug policy that might finally mean an end to the drug war in favor of a public health and human rights approach. In early February, a series of bills were introduced in the Maryland state legislature that would decriminalize small amounts of drugs for personal use, expand access to treatment in emergency rooms and hospitals, and allow for consumption rooms where people would be able to use safely under medical supervision.

Maryland Considers Public Health Approach To All Drugs

February 6, 2016 Staff, www.drugpolicy.org Create! Maryland, Public Health

By Staff of Drug Policy Alliance - As deaths from drug overdoses increase nationwide, Maryland Delegate Dan Morhaim, M.D. - also a practicing physician who has been treating patients in emergency and internal medicine for more than 30 years - will introduce four bills to transform drug policy in the state. This groundbreaking legislative package aims to reduce the harms associated with substance abuse disorders, including rates of addiction, deadly overdose, the spread of infectious disease, crime, costs to the general public, and incarceration rates.

People With Disabilities Rally For Utah To Improve At-Home Services

September 29, 2015 Michael McFall, www.sltrib.com Resist! Health Care, People with Disabilities, Public Health, Utah

By Michael McFall in The St. Louis Tribune - Cathy Garber still gets emotional when she remembers how badly she wanted to leave her nursing home. Garber had just finished her master's degree in social work at the University of Utah in 2011 when she needed major surgery. When the procedure was over, her physicians decided she wasn't healing fast enough and put her in a nursing home. But she didn't want to be there. She wanted to be in her own home. "I had to be there for six months. I missed Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day," Garber said to a crowd of about 150 at the Utah State Capitol, protesting Sunday what they said is Utah's lack of home and community-based services for people with disabilities. That deficiency forces people to move into nursing homes and other institutions, according to the Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) organization, which organized Sunday's rally.

Future Doctors Rising Up For ‘Medicare For All’

September 26, 2015 Vanessa Van Doren, www.commondreams.org Resist! Medicare, Medicine, Public Health

By Vanessa Van Doren in Common Dreams - For most of us in medicine, helping people live healthy, happy lives is at the heart of why we chose this career. We expound upon this in application essays, talk about it during interviews, and start medical school with this “calling” fresh in our minds. Very early in our medical careers – on the wards and in the classroom – we learn that inequality, preventable illness, and death are an inherent part of our current private, for-profit-oriented health insurance system. We see patients receive preventable amputations due to untreated diabetes. We see people permanently disabled by stroke because they were unable to afford their medications. College funds emptied out to pay for $100,000-a-year cancer treatments. Families bankrupted and lives destroyed. We learn that, although the United States is one of the wealthiest countries on earth, we are also the only developed nation that does not provide health care to all of its citizens.

Million-Liter Cyanide Spill In Argentina Highlights Mining Crimes

September 26, 2015 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Educate! Argnetina, Canada, Chemical Spill, Environment, Public Health

By Deirdre Fulton in Common Dreams - Highlighting how corporate extractivism and lack of accountability is driving the destruction of Latin American communities, a Canadian mining company has now confirmed that more than one million liters of cyanide solution spilled from the Barrick Gold Veladero mine in San Juan, Argentina this month—making the spill more than four times larger than originally estimated. The Toronto-headquartered mining company initially said it had spilled just 224,000 liters of the toxic liquid, used to leach gold from processed rocks, into the Potrerillos River. On Wednesday, the corporation amended its statement (pdf) and said that in fact 1.072 million liters of a cyanide and water solution were spilled due to a failure in one of the valves in the mine's pipes.

Monsanto’s Documents Reveal Truth Of Toxicological Dangers

September 25, 2015 Richard Gale and Gary Null in Organic Consumers, www.organicconsumers.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, Monsanto, Public Health

By Richard Gale and Gary Null in Organic Consumers - Over the years a large body of independent research has accumulated and now collectively provides a sound scientific rationale to confirm that glyphosate is far more toxic and poses more serious health risks to animals and humans than Monsanto and the US government admit. Among the many diseases and health conditions non-industry studies identified Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and autism since Roundup has been shown to instigate aluminum accumulation in the brain. The herbicide has been responsible for reproductive problems such as infertility, miscarriages, and neural tube and birth defects. It is a causal agent for a variety of cancers: brain, breast, prostate, lung and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Other disorders include chronic kidney and liver diseases, diabetes, heart disease, hypothyroidism, and leaky gut syndrome.

Single Payer Health Care Groups Converge On Chicago

September 21, 2015 David Johnson, www.popularresistance.org Organize! Chicago, Public Health, Single payer health care

By David Johnson - On Friday Oct. 30th until Sunday November 1st in Chicago Illinois, the largest ever national conference of single-payer / Medicare for All healthcare advocates will convene. The conference is jointly sponsored by the LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER, HEALTHCARE NOW, ONE PAYER STATES, and the PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM. The conference will begin Friday afternoon with a demonstration in front of a ( not to be named ) office building of a notorious healthcare company profiteer. That evening presentations will be made by the national president of the Steelworkers Union ( Leo Gerard ) and the National President of the National Nurses Union ( Jean Ross ). Musical entertainment will be provided by Labor singer / songwriter Anne Feeney.

The Teflon Toxin Goes To Court

September 21, 2015 Sharon Lerner, www.theintercept.com Educate! Big Pharma, Law, Public Health, Science

By Sharon Lerner in The Intercept - As The Intercept reported in a three-part series last month, Bartlett’s is the first of some 3,500 personal injury and 37 wrongful death claims stemming from the 2005 settlement of a class-action suit filed on behalf of people who lived near the plant. Another trial over the chemical, which for decades was used in the production of Teflon and many other products, is scheduled for November. Together, the “bellwether” cases, six in all, are expected to give attorneys on both sides a sense of whether the rest of the claims will proceed or settle — and for how much. Bartlett’s attorneys, including Robert Bilott, who has been working on C8 since takingthe case of a West Virginia farmer named Wilbur Tennant in 1999, argue that DuPont is guilty of negligence, battery, and infliction of emotional harm for exposing Bartlett to C8 in her drinking water.

Gas Compressors And Nose Bleeds

September 19, 2015 Jessica Cohen, www.utne.com Educate! Environment, Oil & Gas, Public Health

By Jessica Cohen in UTNE - In rural Minisink, NY, air contaminants from the Millennium Pipeline gas compressor now exceed what would be found even in a big city, says environmental health consultant David Brown. After dozens of Minisink residents found they were beset by similar ailments immediately after the compressor station was built in 2013, a two-month study of air contaminants and residents’ symptoms was conducted by Brown and his cohorts at Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project. The nonprofit group of public health experts, based in McMurray, PA, have been investigating a comparable pattern of symptoms near gas drilling sites in Pennsylvania and other states. In the Minisink study, recently released, they found that spikes in air toxins around the compressor coincided with residents’ adverse health symptoms.

No Health Insurance Mega Mergers – Healthcare Is A Right!

September 11, 2015 Health Care NOW!, www.change.org Petitions and Online Actions Health Care, Human Rights, Law, Public Health

By Health Care NOW! - The country's five largest for-profit health insurers are trying to merge into three mega corporations, creating an oligopoly that will drive up premiums for patients and employers, cut payments to doctors, and pocket the difference as profits. The health insurance industry is a national embarrassment that is costing patients their income and sometimes their lives. High deductibles and limited networks are becoming the norm, making healthcare inaccessible even for the insured. Tell Attorney General Loretta Lynch to block the health insurance mergers, since healthcare is a right and shouldn't be controlled by "too big to fail" insurance profiteers. All of the powers that make single-payer healthcare so effective - the ability to negotiate low prices for drugs and medical devices, and set fair rates for providers - are deadly in the hands of for-profit insurers, who pocket savings instead of passing them along to patients, and squeeze providers until the quality of care plummets.

The Truth On The Distribution Of HSAs

September 10, 2015 Lorens A. Helmchen, David W. Brown, Ithai Z. Lurie and Anthony T. Lo Sasso, www.pnhp.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, Public Health

By Lorens A. Helmchen, David W. Brown, Ithai Z. Lurie and Anthony T. Lo Sasso in PNHP - Between 2005 and 2012, the share of employers whose employees had health savings accounts (HSAs) and the share of employees working at these employers grew more than tenfold. High-income and older tax filers both established HSAs and fully funded their HSAs at least four times as often as did low-income and younger filers. Although suggestive, the evidence to date on the take-up of HSAs has been limited to surveys, which rely on modest samples of several thousand individuals or employers that have chosen to participate. In this study we examined US tax records to offer a definitive depiction of the growth and ownership patterns of HSAs.

Medicare Diverting Money From Safety Net Hospitals To The Affluent

September 8, 2015 Physicians for a National Health Program, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Medicare, Public Health

By Physicians for a National Health Program - Medicare’s pay-for-performance incentives, which financially reward or punish hospitals depending on whether they hit specific numerical targets in matters such as curbing inpatient readmissions, are having the unintended side effect of taking dollars away from the nation’s historically cash-strapped safety-net hospitals and boosting the revenue of wealthier hospitals that serve an economically better-off patient base. That’s one of the conclusions of an evidence-based editorial in today’s [Tuesday, Sept. 8] Annals of Internal Medicine. The article, titled “Collateral Damage: Pay-for-Performance Initiatives and Safety-Net Hospitals,” is written by two leading health-system researchers, Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein, professors at the City University of New York School of Public Health and lecturers in medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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