Paul Belcher FRCP MFPH Hon 🇪🇺🇬🇧Sep 18, 2025
🇺🇳WHO Report: Europe’s dependence on foreign-trained #doctors & #nurses is exacerbating shortages and undermining #workforce sustainability “we risk widening #HealthInequities and leaving already-fragile health systems unable to cope” @natashaazzmus.bsky.social @who.int www.who.int/europe/news/...

Europe’s dependence on foreign...
Europe’s dependence on foreign-trained doctors and nurses has cross-border ripple effects, finds new WHO/Europe report

WHO/Europe’s new report “Health workforce migration in the WHO European Region: country case studies from Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Ireland, Malta, Moldova, Norway, Romania and Tajikistan” offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of health worker mobility across the Region. Drawing on data from National Health Workforce Accounts, as well as detailed case studies from 9 countries, it highlights the patterns, flows and scale of the Region’s health workforce migration.

Bi SasquatchMar 11, 2025

Big Picture Science for Mar 10, 2025: Preventable

Two infectious diseases that we’ve been able to prevent for a half-century are re-emerging. One of the most contagious viruses in the world, measles, is spreading in the United States. Anti-vax sentiment has driven vaccination rates down leading to outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico. The U.S. has also seen an uptick in cases of tuberculosis which has reclaimed its position the deadliest infection globally. The author John Green shares how his travels to Sierra Leone inspired his new book about TB. Through the story of a young patient, Henry, he highlights the health inequities that contribute to over a million and a half tuberculosis deaths annually despite the existence of a cure.

Guests:

* Adam Ratner – Pediatric infectious disease doctor in New York City, and author of Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
* John Green – Author of The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, and Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection

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#BigPictureScience #SETI #News #Podcast #Science #Measles #Tuberculosis #Virus #Vaccines #Healthcare #HealthInequities #MedicalResearch

De Groene CupDec 18, 2024

Many trans people menstruate, yet they are often ignored in discourses around menstruation. A.J. Lowik, a trans person and reproductive health researcher, explains why this needs to change.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02014-3

We should care about trans people when we consider menstruation, because #HealthInequities in this and other domains are intrinsically tied to broader and intersecting societal inequities.
#Menstruation

Why we should care about trans people and menstruation - Nature Human Behaviour

Many trans people menstruate, yet they are often ignored in discourses around menstruation. A.J. Lowik, a trans person and reproductive health researcher, explains why this needs to change.

Nature
drDonnaWillisMar 14, 2024
The question to ask is ultra-processed products FOOD. Is it also another factor in health disparities of inequities? The New Science on What Ultra-Processed Food Does to Your Brain - The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/ActgQjj7KSiKieC5gJZwKzA #fooddeserts #healthinequities #foodswamps #ultraprocessedfood #nutrition #brain #blackmastodon
The New Science on What Ultra-Processed Food Does to Your Brain — The Wall Street Journal

Studies are finding links between these foods and changes in the way we learn, remember and feel

Luisa N. BorrellMar 6, 2024

The second edition of Health Inequality is out! @MelB
#EpiVerse #HealthInequities #HealthInequalities #SocialEpidemiology

amazon.com/gp/aw/d/074569…

NoraGottliebJan 22, 2024

⚠️ Eigenwerbung
Studie: Asylsuchende haben zu wenig Zugang zu Zahnbehandlungen

#publichealth
#refugees
#healthinequities
#merz
#MerzLuegt

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/gesundheit/asylsuchende-zahnbehandlung-merz-1.6335306

Studie: Asylsuchende haben zu wenig Zugang zu Zahnbehandlungen

Friedrich Merz behauptete, dass Asylsuchende sich die Zähne auf Kosten des Sozialsystems sanieren ließen. Eine Studie widerspricht.

Süddeutsche Zeitung
NoraGottliebJan 18, 2024

Unsere Studie zur zahnmedizinischen (Unter)Versorgung Geflüchteter in der FAZ 🤓

#publichealth
#refugees
#AsylbLG
#healthinequities

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https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/medizin-ernaehrung/oft-beim-zahnarzt-fluechtlinge-nehmen-wenig-medizinische-leistungen-in-anspruch-19455163.html

Studie: Flüchtlinge nehmen selten zahnmedizinische Leistungen in Anspruch

Geflüchtete Menschen haben nur eingeschränkten Zugang zum Gesundheitssystem. Laut einer Studie sind sie seltener beim Zahnarzt als die Allgemeinbevölkerung. Auch in anderen Medizinbereichen sind sie unterversorgt.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
NoraGottliebNov 23, 2023

4th WHO Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health: Addressing social determinants of health among refugees and migrants

Open + free of charge!

27 Nov – 1 Dec 2023
Virtual, streamed from Senegal

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2023/11/27/default-calendar/fourth-who-global-school-on-refugee-and-migrant-health

#migration
#migrants
#refugees
#publichealth
#SdoH
#HealthInequities

Fourth WHO Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health

Every year, the WHO Health and Migration Programme organizes its Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health in collaboration with regional and country offices to support countries in addressing the health needs and rights of people on the move by promoting knowledge sharing and leveraging experiences in advancing the health of these populations.  The fourth edition of WHO Global School on Refugees and Migrant Health will focus on “Addressing social determinants of health among refugees and migrants." Hosted by the WHO Regional Office for Africa, the five-day e-learning event will take place from 27 November to 1 December 2023 and be web streamed from Senegal. 

Luisa N. BorrellAug 14, 2023
#HealthInequities & #Genetics: “Genetic endeavors undertaken with even the best of intentions can miss their mark and, in the process, distract from the actual causes of health disparities, with harmful consequences.” https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-08-13/personalized-medicine-genetics-dna-racial-health-inequities
Opinion: Closing racial health disparities shouldn't just rely on genetics

Past examples of genetic interventions show us efforts to combat health crises can fail communities of color.

Los Angeles Times
Luisa N. BorrellAug 9, 2023
Interesting piece: “The Issue Is Not Race or Class, but Rather Race and Class.” #Racism #HealthInequities https://portside.org/2023-08-08/why-reverend-jesse-jackson-was-right-issue-not-race-or-class-rather-race-and-class#snapshot-mini-form
Why Reverend Jesse Jackson Was Right. The Issue Is Not Race or Class, but Rather Race and Class.

I congratulate David Masciotra [Jesse Jackson: The 2024 Presidential Race https://portside.org/2023-08-01/jesse-jackson-2024-presidential-race ] on his excellent piece on Jesse Jackson's legacy article and his immense contributions to the liberation of African Americans as well as to the well-being and quality of life of the majority of the population of this country (Portside, August 1, 2023).

Portside