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School-Based Health | Public Health Post Many vulnerable students are not able to access health care due to transportation or financial barriers. School-based health centers, while not yet widely implemented, have positive influences on both health and education outcomes.

Check out this link Despite the stark divide on ideology, the majority of people surveyed believe government should play a prominent role in health.

7 Dresses 4 Health | Public Health Post What is the role of the artist activist in public health? Marian Brown describes her performance piece adDRESSing health: 7 dresses, 7 days a week, 52 weeks, 365 days a year.

‘Home’ and Human Rights | Public Health Post There are now four million more refugees worldwide. In the face of the worst refugee and displaced persons crisis in history, powerful and wealthy nations of the world have an undeniable obligation to confront this massive pandemic.

A New Approach to Addiction | Public Health Post Facing a dramatic upswing in overdoses and deaths related to he**in and prescription opioid painkillers, the Arlington Police Department hired a...

LGBT Rights and Adolescent Health | Public Health Post As the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. states consider policies governing transgender rights, there is a need for representative data on transgender...

Immigrant Doctors Project 14 million doctors' appointments are provided each year by physicians from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — the six countries targeted by the recent Executive Order. They are spread out across America, providing vital services throughout the Rust Belt and Appalachia, especially in Ohio...

Dignity in Language for Population Health | Public Health Post Microaggressions are subtle, insidious, and often nearly constant in the experience of individuals belonging to marginalized identity groups.

Living with Purpose | Public Health Post Dr. Trish Scanlan shares her story of surviving breast cancer not once, but twice, while working with children with late-stage cancer in Tanzania.

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Coverage Maps Show what the ACA Accomplished – and What We Have to Lose... Four maps show the reduction in the percentage of population without health insurance from 2013 to 2016 under the ACA.

Physicians For Human Rights To Receive Dodd Prize Physicians for Human Rights, an organization that for decades has documented war crimes and atrocities, will be awarded the Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights, UConn said Thursday.

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Trump's Executive Actions Reverse Obama Policies on Torture, Healthcare & Guantánamo Bay We speak with Vincent Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, about the powers of the president.

Anatomy of a Crisis: A Map of Attacks on Health Care in Syria Map from Physicians for Human Rights shows that government forces are deliberately attacking Syria's medical system.

Stand up for someone's rights today! It's National Human Rights Day.
"Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

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Human Rights Day 10 December : Background Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, the Assembly passed resolution 423 (V), inviting all States and interested organizations to observe 10 De...

"Senate investigators found that the bureau officers visited a detention site code-named Cobalt north of Kabul in November 2002. That site — also known as the Salt Pit — has become infamous for the brutal torture inflicted on detainees there, including re**al exams conducted with “excessive force.” According to Senate investigators, the CIA’s own employees described the facility as “a dungeon,” where detainees “cowered” as interrogators opened the door and “looked like a dog that had been kenneled.”

In April, the ACLU filed suit to obtain documents related to the visit, which the Bureau of Prisons initially claimed did not exist."

Newly-Released Documents Confirm Bureau of Prisons Visit to CIA Torture Site in Afghanistan When the ACLU filed suit to obtain documents related to the visit, the Bureau of Prisons initially claimed none existed.

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"The death toll continued to climb after Moscow vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Saturday to stop the bombing in Aleppo and allow access for humanitarian aid."

10 children killed in Aleppo airstrikes; Russia announces temporary halt Hours after airstrikes killed 14 family members in Aleppo -- including 10 children -- Russia announced it will temporarily stop airstrikes on the rebel-held eastern part of the city.

"The USA needs leaders who take human rights violators to the bar of justice, even if we lose every time. We need a leader with the courage to confront our dark past. Then at least, we can brag about the devoted few while singing that beautiful song of Paul Simon, The Sound of Silence."

Candidates Must Address Human Rights | Huffington Post The second presidential debate made it painfully clear that the candidates' pasts echo forward for all of us. As 69 million Americans tuned in, both Trum...

"Let me finally return to Dwight Macdonald and the responsibility of intellectuals. Macdonald quotes an interview with a death-camp paymaster who burst into tears when told that the Russians would hang him. “Why should they? What have I done?” he asked. Macdonald concludes: “Only those who are willing to resist authority themselves when it conflicts too intolerably with their personal moral code, only they have the right to condemn the death-camp paymaster.” The question, “What have I done?” is one that we may well ask ourselves, as we read each day of fresh atrocities in Vietnam—as we create, or mouth, or tolerate the deceptions that will be used to justify the next defense of freedom."

The Responsibility of Intellectuals The Noam Chomsky Website.

Your Surgeon Is Probably a Republican, Your Psychiatrist Probably a Democrat New data show distinct political leanings in many medical specialties. Over all, the field is becoming more Democratic.

"Doctors in Aleppo are ready to die."

Largest hospital in rebel-held Aleppo hit by barrel bombs The largest hospital in rebel-held Aleppo has been hit by "at least two" barrel bombs, according to a NGO working in the city. It was not immediately clear who was responsible, but hospitals in the area have been plagued by bombing by forces loyal to the Syrian government in recent weeks.

White House lashes out at 'embarrassing' Senate veto override “This is the single most embarrassing thing that the United States Senate has done."

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U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel Its recommendations will likely be ignored by Washington.

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Calendar | SPH | Boston University Since 1976, Boston University's School of Public Health (SPH) has been growing, innovating, discovering, and launching the careers of some of the most accomplished and influential women and men in the field.

Welcoming refugees makes America stronger By Emir Hadzic   After serving 20 years in the Marine Corps, I’ve returned to my adopted home of St. Louis. It’s the place that first welcomed me when I came to the United States as a Bosnian refugee, and it’s a perfect example of how refugees can thrive in America. Like many other towns and cit...

Why so few women in peace talks, demand Myanmar campaigners Activists fight back against women’s marginalisation from attempts to find a lasting end to one of the world’s longest running civil wars

U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Texas Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers Laws, Whole... Recent abortion case decision “a victory for reproductive rights”

Firearm Violence: Research and Action by UC Berkeley School of Public Health Watch UC Berkeley School of Public Health's Firearm Violence: Research and Action on Livestream.com. Featured Speakers: Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH, Director of the Violence Prevention Research Program and Professor, UC Davis and Magdalena Cerda, DrPH, MPH, Vice Chancellor’s Chair in Violence Preven...

"Elevated depression rates among minority individuals are largely associated with greater health burdens and lack of health insurance, factors amenable to public policy intervention."

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Rates of Depression Among Preretirement Adults Objectives. We estimated racial/ethnic differences in rates of major depression and investigated possible mediators.Methods. Depression prevalence rates among African American, Hispanic, and White adults were estimated from a population-based national ...

“If we are to stand up to human rights abuses abroad, our own record inevitably comes under scrutiny. Our credibility and influence as a global player depends on the UK having an exemplary human rights record - both in terms of the legal framework and our adherence to the highest standards of human rights in practice.”

UK failing on many human rights measures, report claims Coalition of 175 civil society organisations raises alarm over prisons, hate crimes, stop and search powers and threat to Human Rights Act

"“Texas is continuing to play political football with the lives of refugee families,” said Cecillia Wang, the director of the Immigrants’ Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union and one of the lawyers who represented a nonprofit relief group, the International Rescue Committee, in the dismissed lawsuit."

Texas Threatens to Pull Out of Refugee Resettlement Program The state is demanding to limit the number of refugees it accepts and receive additional security assurances, though a withdrawal from the program may not have much effect.