PHP talks with Michael Cox, executive director of Black and Pink Massachusetts and Rayna Danis, a 2021 Getting to Zero Coalition Activist Academy Fellow, to discuss the movement to decriminalize sex work in Massachusetts.
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Public Health Post introduces a series examining how the criminalization and stigma of sex work affects workers in various sectors of the sex industry.
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Providing a device for veterans living in rural areas to access teletherapy decreased suicide-related emergency department visits.
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Many non-federal free, charitable, and faith-based clinics do not provide professional translation services because they cannot afford them.
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The practice of shackling hospitalized patients introduces both physical and psychological harms.
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Chronic disease prevalence among adults increased in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.
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Public libraries play an integral role in community health.
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Despite cancer treatment advancements, people of color continue to suffer worse melanoma-specific outcomes and have lower survival probability.
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Researchers formulated a new definition of metabolic health based on systolic blood pressure, use of blood pressure medication, waist-to-hip ratio, and presence of diabetes symptoms.
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Severely isolated patients had a 119% higher risk of death within one year of ICU admission compared to the most socially-networked patients.
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