Birthrates in the U.S. hit historic low, CDC data show
The number of babies born in the United States fell by 2 percent in 2023, returning the nation to a downward trend in birthrates seen before the pandemic. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sabrina Malhi Source Type: news
UK Companies Are Cracking Down on Flexible Jobs
UK employers are scaling back on advertising jobs that offer flexible schedules, reining in part-time and remote work from peaks seen in the pandemic. Simple black type logo for the Bloomberg UK Reed Jobs Report Using Reed Recruitment’s job vacancy data, Bloomberg will produce monthly readouts on…#reedrecruitment #subscribe #bloombergoriginals #bloombergquicktake #breakingnewson (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Experts Are Worried About Bird Flu in Cows
Bird flu has been hitting a little too close to home lately. In its testing of the commercial milk supply, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported on April 25 that 20% of milk samples tested from the retail market contained “viral fragments” of H5N1 bird flu. Many believe that’s an underestimate; experts at Ohio State University have found that as much as 40% of milk samples from processing facilities in the Midwest may contain parts of the virus.
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The results immediately raised concerns about the safety of the U.S.’ milk supply and the ri...
Source: TIME: Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Consumer sentiment report reflects wealth divide
Back in 2022, as inflation spiked to multi-decade highs, consumer sentiment plummeted to multi-decade lows. It’s been creeping back up since then. But for the last few months, sentiment has been stuck at a sort-of middling level and still well below where it was in the decade before the pandemic.…#kaylabruun #morningconsult #brunn #chrisjackson #ipsos #marketplace (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Cheapest and Most Expensive Housing Markets in Indiana
Home prices have surged in the U.S. in recent years. Driven by rising demand and supply constraints during the pandemic, the median home sale price spiked by nearly 50% from the second quarter of 2020 to Q3 in 2022. While the sale price of a typical American home has fallen in recent months since,…#q3 #indiana #uscensusbureaus #acs #eastchicago #richmond #median #terrehautemedian #michigancity #fortwayne (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Loneliness and Heart Disease: What the Literature Tells Us and What We Can Do to Help
Of the many things we learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, one valuable lesson is that loneliness has a tremendous impact on health. Loneliness has been linked to a number of medical conditions in older patients, including depression, dementia, and heart disease. Loneliness, defined as “being without company,” is the subjective feeling of being socially isolated. A person can be alone without feeling lonely, just as one can have social support and yet still report feeling lonely. As part of the special section on Heart Disease and Matters of the Heart, we present recent litera ture on the impact of loneliness on heart d...
Source: Caring for the Ages - April 26, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: Casey Rust, Seifu Tulu Source Type: news
Domestic violence patterns in postpartum women who delivered during the COVID-19 pandemic - Correia LL, Machado MMT, Vieira-Meyer APGF, Ara újo DABS, Gomes EABM, Saldanha AB, Rodrigues RCR, Gomes YVC, Castro MC.
OBJECTIVE: To longitudinally assess domestic violence (DV) during the postpartum period, identifying types, patterns and determinants of DV, according to mothers' reports in Fortaleza, Brazil. METHODS: Data from the Iracema-COVID cohort study inter... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Perceptions on violence against women and its impacts on mental health and response mechanisms among community-based stakeholders: a qualitative study from Nepal - Shrestha R, Sapkota D, Sarraf RR, Mehra D, Ekstrom AM, Deuba K.
BACKGROUND: Violence against women (VAW) is a significant public health problem. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the frequency and severity of VAW has escalated globally. Approximately one in four women in Nepal have been exposed to either phy... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Community-Based Prevention Source Type: news
Now is the time to strengthen government-academic data infrastructures to jump-start future public health crisis response - Lee JS, Tyler ARB, Veinot TC, Yakel E.
During public health crises, the significance of rapid data sharing cannot be overstated. In attempts to accelerate COVID-19 pandemic responses, discussions within society and scholarly research have focused on data sharing among health care providers, acr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Black mothers' ethnic-racial socialization one year after highly publicized anti-Black murders during the pandemic - Coates EE, Moore C, de Heer R, Brumley C, Prudhomme A, Edwards L, Curtis L.
Although research on ethnic-racial socialization is well established, limited studies have examined the influence of specific, highly publicized anti-Black murders. We assessed Black mothers' (N = 12, mean age = 37.45) concerns and ethnic-racial socializat... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Impact of COVID-19 on acute care hospitalizations for suicidality - Dellazoppa A, Porada K, Zaspel JA, Bourgeois S, Vepraskas SH.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic contributed to the public health crisis for pediatric mental health. We characterized our local patient population presenting with suicidality or suicide attempts before and after ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
What Is a ‘Decent Wage’? France’s Michelin Raises a Debate
When the French tire maker Michelin closed its factories during the coronavirus pandemic, Florent Menegaux, the company’s chief executive, took stock of the closures’ impact on employees worldwide. Thousands of workers in Asia, Europe and the United States at the lower end of the company’s pay…#florentmenegaux (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Empowering a healthy workforce — Table of Experts
Stress from the COVID-19 pandemic shook employees ’ sense of stability in ways most people could not anticipate, highlighting fractures that employees were already facing in their lives.
That realization has made it even more important for employers to enhance their wellness strategy to help workers take a comprehensive approach to their wellbei ng and perform better on the job.
Brent Hunter, general manager for Cigna Healthcare’s Mid-America market, including St. Louis, explains, “Our overall… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 26, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Cigna Healthcare Source Type: news
The Guardian view on Labour and rail renationalisation: a sensible plan that passengers need
Failing train services in Britain have often been the butt of jokes, but the chaos is not funny to those who rely on them. For many in the north of England in particular, frustration has given way to despair. Railways are a public good that the public are turning away from. The pandemic’s…#labour #louisehaigh #networkrail #wales #scotland #avantiwestcoast #borisjohnson #keithwilliams #britishairways #conservatives (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: Global Fund Board Welcomes Investments Towards Ending Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria - Expresses Concern Over Growing Needs From Polycrisis Amid Global Economic Pressures
[Global Fund] Geneva -- The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) held its 51st meeting this week in Geneva, Switzerland. While anticipating record disbursements this year, with an unprecedented pace of investment in resilient and sustainable systems for health (RSSH) and pandemic preparedness and response (PPR), the Board repeatedly acknowledged the numerous challenges - including climate change, conflict, displacement, geopolitics, the economic situation, and in particular, the (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 26, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Malaria Tuberculosis Source Type: news
