Population Health Round-up: November

Each month, we curate the most interesting news in population health. This month, we look at pregnant moms’ and kids’ health, disparities among race and income, how climate change and toxic ash are affecting health, how inclusion benefits us all, and more…

Health Disparities

• The curb-cut effect: Laws and programs designed to benefit vulnerable groups, such as the disabled or people of color, often end up benefiting all of society (Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2017)
• Advanced degrees and high-paying jobs don’t necessarily eliminate health disparities (RWJ Culture of Health Blog, October 24, 2017)
• HIV prevention challenges among American Indian/Alaska Natives: poverty, high rates of STIs, and stigma (CDC, March 2017)
• Black women with breast cancer are being left behind (Fred Hutch, November 1, 2017)

Children and pregnancy

• Among African Americans, pregnancy and childbirth are killing at inexplicable rates (LA Times, October 26, 2017)
• Prenatal care for women on Medicaid boosts health across generations (University of Michigan, November 1, 2017)
• Parental screenings in pediatrics help, but who pays? (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and PolicyLab, November 7, 2017)
• The GAO report on child well-being: what’s better…and what’s worse? (GAO, November 9, 2017)
• Accountable Communities of Health program helps children and pregnant women in Nepal (Health Affairs Vol 36, No 11, November 2017)
• A blueprint for protecting children’s environmental health (Children’s Environmental Health Network)

Place

• Toxic ash from wildfires: a new public health threat (Wired magazine, October 29, 2017)
• Climate change is already harming health (Lancet via the New York Times, October 30, 2017)
• Green spaces and urban health (US Forest Service, November 2, 2017)
• US News & World Report takes a mile-high view on health disparities and place (US News & World Report, November 1, 2017)
• What Vermont is doing about the opioid epidemic is working (Vox, October 31, 2017)