🔬 The latest issue of #EBPH, the official journal of the Italian Society of Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology #SISMEC, is now fully online
A multidisciplinary journal that places key #PublicHealth challenges at its core, featuring original studies, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and research protocols on #HealthPolicies, #HealthcareManagement, and #healtheconomics
⬇️ In #openaccess here:
https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/ebph/issue/view/2720?mtm_campaign=mastodon
Global sugar demand stalls as health policies and weight-loss drugs curb consumption
When it comes to #reporting on #NorthAmerica’s #OverdoseCrisis — the worst in our history — #misleading articles can increase #stigma against people who use #drugs, skew the public’s understanding of the issue, inspire #BadFaith policy and make it more difficult for other #journalists to gain the trust and respect of #MarginalizedCommunities.
Which brings me to a splashy, new piece of drug #journalism from U.K.-based newspaper the Telegraph, falsely claiming that #decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs “made #Vancouver the #fentanyl capital of the world.”
The Telegraph’s story, like others before it, makes a number of other #misleading claims, including stating that #SafeSupply programs, which provide pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs, are making the situation worse because that supply is being sold to street users, including young people. Some safe supply is being diverted, but there is no evidence that it’s led to more deaths or teens forming new addictions.
Reporting like this misses important context about the #DrugCrisis, allowing #politicians to drum up fear about #HarmReduction rather than confront how decades of #prohibition have impacted the current #FentanylCrisis. After the 2010s crackdown on prescription pain pills, many people dependent on #opioids turned to heroin instead. Eventually, #DrugTraffickers began cutting heroin with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger, that is also cheaper and simpler to make and smuggle.
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #BreakTheStigma #AddictionEducation #Fearmongering #StopStigmatizingAddiction #Health #Medical #HealthPolicies #MediaManipulation #BreakStatusQuo #FundTreatmentServices #FundHealthCare #FundMedicalServices #CommunityHealth
📙 Helena da Silva é uma das editoras da obra "Pequenas Cidades no Tempo. A saúde", resultado de uma selecção de textos apresentados no colóquio "Pequenas Cidades e Saúde da Idade Média à Época Contemporânea".
🔓 O livro está disponível em #AcessoAberto: https://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/152873
#Histodons #MedHist #HealthHistory #HistoryOfMedicine #NewBook #OpenAccess #SmallCities #HealthPolicies #HistóriaDaSaúde #SaúdePública #HistóriaDaMedicina #PolíticasDeSaúde
...the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has ... received millions in contributions from producers of pop, candy, and processed foods linked to diabetes, heart disease, obesity and other health problems.
"... if the Academy is corrupt then nutritional policy in the US is going to be corrupt."
"If we’re ever going to solve the problems of obesity and diabetes ..., then we’re going to have to tackle the corruption in our health institutions."
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… and we work on a systematic review of the empirical evidence on the effects of different #HealthPolicies for #asylum-seekers and #refugees in #Germany.
For now, it seems pretty safe to say that greater inclusion of #migrants in public #healthcare provision is a win-win: better for migrant patients and for #HealthSystems (financially, organizational, etc).
If policymaker still choose exclusions + restrictions of migrants' #HealthRights, they need new justifications.
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