Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
By Katherine Macfarlane Public health in the U.S. This essay describes the cost of casting aside what is best for the public’s health in favor of individual choice, especially to those who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. It explores how they must negotiate public health measures on their own.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.
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Bill of Health
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
By Eduardo Arenas Catalán The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles), entail a notable attempt to consolidate lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. The critical notion of shared but differentiated responsibilities is thus strengthened within global public health.
Bill of Health
JANUARY 2, 2024
As noted in the drug policing report reforms supporting a commitment to public safety initiatives such as providing amenity in civil spaces, teaming up with social services, and leveraging behavioral health skills to replace arrests and incarceration are a strong counterpoint to the idea that reform shows weakness on fighting crime.
Bill of Health
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
health care system, but that are especially present for behavioral health needs like substance use, and are exacerbated by other challenges related to stigma, lack of employment, and fragmented or nonexistent care coordination. Student at Temple University’s Department of Geography.
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Moreover, individually distressing conditions — such as subtle cognitive symptoms — may not “ substantially limit” a major life activity , and thus, at present, are outside the realm of protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act. What would brain-forward health policy look like? What does COVID infection do to our brains?
Bill of Health
MARCH 15, 2024
Baban At present, there is a population of patients who would physiologically benefit from transplantation but are rejected based on pre-determined non-medical criteria: the presence of psychotic disorders. An upcoming opportunity for reform provides a chance to rectify this injustice.
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