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Apr 6, 2023 · The Watch: June 27, 2024. Landfills release ‘forever chemicals’ into air, millions of US households have high lead levels in soil, infant deaths increase after Texas abortion ban, rising health care costs endanger jobs and more. by Michele Late June 28, 2024June 28, 2024.
The Watch: June 6, 2024 - Public Health Watch
The Watch: June 6, 2024. US mental health lags behind other high-income nations. Americans have some of the highest rates of mental health conditions compared with other high-income countries, but cost and other barriers often prevent them from receiving care, new research finds. The Commonwealth Fund surveyed more than 21,000 people in 10 ...
About Us - Public Health Watch
Our Mission Public Health Watch is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization that focuses on threats to America’s well-being. We illuminate weaknesses and injustices in the nation’s health infrastructure and policies, expose inequities and highlight solutions. National in scope, we collaborate with media outlets large and small and …
Introducing Public Health Watch
Aug 16, 2021 · Today we unveil Public Health Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news site that will focus on the prevention of illness, injury and death. The timing is fortuitous, given the maddeningly resilient COVID-19 virus. But the idea of Public Health Watch has been percolating for more than two years. While we’re all preoccupied with the pandemic, […]
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Impact: OSHA Announces Enforcement Initiative After Public Health Watch Reveals Silicosis Cluster in California. At least 77 fabricators of engineered-stone countertops in the state have been diagnosed with an accelerated form of the fatal lung disease since January 2016. by Jim Morris September 26, 2023.
We can’t fix health care if we’re not talking about it
Sep 10, 2024 · According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of Americans without health insurance jumped from a historic low of 7.2% last summer to 8.2% — over 27 million people — in the first quarter of 2024. Without policy changes, these numbers will only grow larger. Studies suggest that those without ...
Manganese in Public Water Systems - Public Health Watch
Aug 29, 2023 · An EPA survey released in 2021 tested 5,034 public water systems across the U.S. and found potentially unsafe levels of manganese — where neurological effects may occur — in 106, or 2.1%, of them. The EPA advises consuming no more than 300 micrograms per liter each day over a lifetime to protect people’s health.
‘Chronic Underfunding’ of Public Health Threatens Lives in U.S., …
Jul 27, 2022 · The United States spent $4.1 trillion on health in 2020 but only 5.4% of that amount went toward public health — the prevention of illness and death, a new report has found.. The Trust for America’s Health offered this stark example, among others, of what it called “chronic underfunding of public health at both the federal and state levels,” which has left …
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Mar 4, 2024 · Public Health Watch is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization that focuses on threats to America’s well-being. 2110 Ranch Road 620 South