goodideapublichealth:
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SO MANY RESOURCES! YES!
lipstick-feminists:
Beginning August 1st, 2012 a whole range of crucial health care services will start becoming avaiable to women with no cost-sharing like co-pays or deductibles, thanks to Pres. Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
(Source: lipstick-feminists)
party-loghain:
Our final project for my public health class was to do a TED talk on a public health issue of our choice. This is what I did. My prof was worried I wouldn’t be able to make sexualization actually come off as a public health issue, but was pretty pleased with my presentation in the end. The class really seemed to get into it too, and I got a positive response all around.
It’s not really the same as the actual presentation, but I’m proud of my work and thought I would share the power point I made and used for it.
I don’t get it when people think there is no overlap in what I am studying in college (Media, Public Health, and Women’s Studies). These fields have everything to do with one another.
(Source: mister-elrond)
gaywrites:
APA takes gender identity disorder out of DSM-V
The DSM-V, the newest edition of the diagnostic manual used to classify mental illnesses, will rename the entry for “Gender Identity Disorder” to “Gender Dysphoria,” representing a major change in how the medical community views trans people.
According to sources cited in this AP article, this change has been long time coming from activists and mental health professionals who argue about the harmful stigma that results when trans people are labeled as disordered. The term “dysphoria” implies only a temporary mental state that some people have, they say, which is certainly better than claiming that all trans people have a “disorder.”
While some people are still calling for a description of a trans-related condition to be removed entirely from the DSM-V, other trans activists think there are upsides to having some kind of diagnosis to refer to. One is insurance: procedures like gender reassignment surgery are more likely to be covered with a diagnosis to back them up.
Another is discrimination: if a trans person is discriminated against because of their gender identity, a diagnosed condition makes it easier to stand up for that person in a courtroom and explain that being trans is not a superficial “phase,” but a recognized, legitimate identity.
Of course, these may not outweigh the harm that being labeled a “disorder” might cause. The AP article above has tons of quotes from assorted specialists making lots of different claims about this. What’s your take?
Never before in history has a candidate run for president with the idea that too many people have health insurance coverage.
— David Cutler on Mitt Romney. (via wisconsinforward)
inothernews:
picturedept:
Palíndromo Mészáros: The Line
On October 14, 2010, a catastrophic toxic aluminum waste spill inundated the Hungarian town Ajka, and spread all the way to the Danube river, killing at least 9 and injuring over 100 people. The accident left a visible legacy on the land, the flood line marked by a very noticeable deposit of caustic red mud. Palíndromo Mészáros photographed this landscape 6 months later, in the aftermath, “when the silence takes the place of the headlines and just The Line is left.”
View more from The Line at www.palindromo.info.
Blood red.
journalofajournalist:
felixsalmon:
THESIS:
The difference between Europe and the US is this. Let’s say that you’re paying $1,000 per month for private health insurance. The government comes to you with a bargain: we’ll tax you an extra $600 per month, but in return you’ll get better health insurance than you’ve got right now, so you end up ahead by $400 per month. Europeans look at that bargain and think it seems like a very good deal. Americans look at that bargain with great suspicion.
Very well said.
mindovermatterzine:
Campaigners left disappointed after health minister Andrew Lansley made no commitment to funding reform.
Social care funding is in crisis. The ‘Barnet Graph of Doom’ is a neat way to display just how serious this crisis is:
[Image: (Click to make larger) A graph showing the cost of adult social services in Barnet in lime green, and the cost of child social services in Barnet in pale green. A blue line represents the total council budget. It shows that within 20 years, unless things change dramatically, the north London council will be unable to provide any services except adult social care and children’s services. No libraries, no parks, no leisure centres – not even bin collections.]
The CDC officer had a serious warning for Florida health officials in April: A tuberculosis outbreak in Jacksonville was one of the worst his group had investigated in 20 years. Linked to 13 deaths and 99 illnesses, including six children, it would require concerted action to stop. That report had been penned on April 5, exactly nine days after Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill that shrank the Department of Health and required the closure of the A.G. Holley State Hospital in Lantana, where tough tuberculosis cases have been treated for more than 60 years. As health officials in Tallahassee turned their focus to restructuring, Dr. Robert Luo’s 25-page report describing Jacksonville’s outbreak — and the measures needed to contain it – went unseen by key decision makers around the state. At the health agency, an order went out that the TB hospital must be closed six months ahead of schedule.
(Source: bohemiansouth)
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Repeat until hoarse. Congressional and administration salaries should be capped at 2-3 x average American’s salary. Benefits, including health care, should be EQUAL to average American’s benefits. And laws made BY Congress should apply TO Congress.
We need a “government of the people” Amendment.
(Source: divineirony)
The problem is it’s like when you give something to a child. They’re always going to figure out how they can get away with a little more.
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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley • In a written statement, explaining her reasoning for slashing the budget of the state’s rape crisis center budget. Crisis centers only help a small portion of residents, and distract from the state health department’s goal of providing treatment to all residents of South Carolina according to Governor Haley. ”Being raped is traumatic enough, but having to navigate that system, going to court by yourself, going to the hospital for a really intrusive and painful exam by yourself is horrific,” counters South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault executive director Pam Jacobs, adding, ”Unfortunately, that’s the solution rape victims may be in if this veto is not overridden.” source (via • follow)
Jesus. Internalized misogyny like whoa. Haley also called this provision a “distraction” from “more important issues.” I cannot even with that level of woman-hating.
(via stfuconservatives)
I’m going to eliminate every non-essential, expensive program I can find, that includes Obamacare,
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Republican presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY, essentially telling 30 million Americans without health insurance that they’re “non-essential.”
Good job, Mitt.
(via The Huffington Post)
Let’s see, what would Republicans consider essential?
The military. Tax cuts for the rich. Subsidies for oil companies. Creationism.
Everyone else? Sorry, the Republicans don’t care.
(via liberalbutnotpartisan)
(Source: inothernews)
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