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Everybody is Stressed in America, and It’s Not Good for Our Health: the 2023 Update from the American Psychological Association

Health Populi

The APA has been quantifying Stress in America since 2007; for context, at the end of that year The Great Recession kicked in , and in response President Obama’s team put together assistance to bolster the national economy, jobs, and health technology (codified in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).

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Fertility Treatment, Equality, Neutrality, and the Workplace

Bill of Health

The second is that if we were to devise a hypothetical insurance market to decide what should be part of the public health care provision, most people may want to include fertility treatment in that provision due to the value that many attribute to having children.

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Ethical Challenges Associated with the Protection of Pets in War

Bill of Health

Harvard Law School 2008) is a professor of legal sociology at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo and a Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies at PRIO. The extension of international protection to Ukrainian pets raises issues with respect to the legitimate expectations of future refugee populations. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (LL.M

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Consumers Embrace Tech But Privacy Remains a Concern – The Morning Consult Poll of Consumers and Tech

Jane Sarashon

adults in early December 2021 for this survey, Health Populi’s Hot Points: Trust is a pre-cursor for health engagement, with authenticity running a close second as a factor that health consumers lean into when partnering with organizations for their health. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

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The Unsurprising Surprise of Social Determinants in COVID-19 Mortality

Health Populi

” The phrase, “your ZIP code is more important than your genetic code” has become the common mantra for public health people communicating the concept of the social determinants of health : those factors outside of medical services that shape peoples’ overall health and well-being.

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How the Dobbs Ruling Will Affect People with Substance Use Disorder

Bill of Health

It was not until years later in 2008 that her wrongful conviction was overturned by the state’s Supreme Court. . In 2001, prosecutors charged McKnight with homicide allegedly caused by her use of cocaine while pregnant. The jury in the case returned a guilty verdict after deliberating for thirty minutes.

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