Trans Rights by State Lines
Trans people in states with protective policies were more likely to seek healthcare than people in states with restrictive policies.
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Calculating Coverage
With 8 million unique users annually on social media, PHP reminds readers that public health is everything: from Covid-19 to sex to aging.
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Addiction Care for Mother
Increased access to buprenorphine and methadone especially benefits pregnant women and their unborn infants.
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Are the Kids Too Loud?
Schools exposed to greater levels of noise pollution are more likely to serve students of color or low-income students.
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Neglecting Children’s Health
Between 2004 and 2016, foster care placements for abuse or neglect increased from 4.8% of all placements to 5.4%.
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Policing Pot
Just two years after Senate Bill 350 was introduced, the state of Pennsylvania itself enacted law SB 3, legalizing medicinal marijuana use.
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Our Medical Spending
Medicare spends $13,072 on people without any known mental health disorders, but $19,676 for those with severe mental illness.
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Too Little, Too Late
Laws restricting abortion access don’t reduce abortions or the need for them, they unfairly limit who has access to them.
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Counting Contraception
Creating systems that encourage providers to offer IUDs and implants is a critical step to contraception access.
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