health
50 years after Yugoslavia protected abortion rights, that socialist legacy is threatened
March 29, 2024Women in the successor states look back on a right that was guaranteed to them during the years of Communist Party governance.
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Archives 2020: People’s World reports from inside Wuhan
March 12, 2024Weeks before the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic and long before Trump was even paying attention, People’s World covered the emerging health crisis from inside COVID-hit Wuhan.
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‘The Invisible Shield’: Public health’s unseen (and underfunded) battle to save lives
March 5, 2024Catastrophe has always been the driving force behind the development of public health. PBS series ‘The Invisible Shield’ tells the tale.
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California wildfire smoke affects indigenous communities nearly two times more than expected
March 4, 2024“Analyses spanning 2006 to 2020 revealed that Native American and Alaska Native, multiracial, and non-Hispanic white populations had consistently disproportionate outdoor wildfire PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] exposure."
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World’s food system must be transformed for health of people and planet, study finds
January 31, 2024“Our food systems — the way we produce, market, and consume food — are part of the political, social, economic, ecological, and cultural fabric of our communities."
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