In-N-Out Burger’s New Masking Policy Threatens Their Employees’ Health

In-N-Out Burger confirms it has a new store policy prohibiting employees from wearing masks unless they have an approved doctor’s note.

Forbes

This is unimaginably important. Read the 🧵 for the awful details. So excited to read this.

#PHEthx #PHLaw #HistPubHealth #SocEpi #LegalEpi #StructuralViolence #HistoryMatters

(For more on the history of anti-Black racism and TB in particular, be sure to check out “Infectious Fear” by Samuel Kelton Roberts)

H/t @krisnelson

From: @wrigleyfield
https://fediscience.org/@wrigleyfield/110662513906585293

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (@[email protected])

New paper w Aja Antoine-Jones, James Feigenbaum, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, and Chris Muller "Racial Inequality in the Prime of Life: Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1906–1933" tells us two new things about the staggering racial inequity in this era (cont'd) #demography #sociology #history #RacialDisparities #mortality #EpidemiologicalTransition #HealthEquity #HistoricalDemography https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.4

FediScience.org

Hey for any #HealthLaw tweep thinking about submitting to #HLP23, I am thinking about some kind of group or collaborative submission on #PHLaw

@[email protected] is wonderfully flexible and permits wide variety of formats (roundtable, panel, workshop, etc.)

HMU if you're interested!

A disproportionate share of the harms where LHDs and public health agencies are prohibited from actually governing for population health. #PHLaw matters for practical policy and advocacy!!!

cc @[email protected]

We just want to help, but I cannot understand how effective grass-roots policy and advocacy work can proceed if the recommendations for specific actors exceed sovereign legal authority.

Doing so is not only bad in its own right, but as #PHLaw scholars have been pointing out +

It's remarkable that this "Analysis" of "Public Health Law" does not include any quotes or explanation from a single expert on -- you guessed it -- Public Health Law!

#PHLaw #UseOurKnowledge #WeExist 😡😡

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/us/politics/covid-title-42-border-migrants-biden.html?smid=tw-share

Politicians Embrace Title 42 as Border Band-Aid

For some lawmakers and politicians on both sides of the aisle, brandishing Title 42 is a way to flaunt an aggressive stance on the border.

I've been wondering for a while re the true state of public health law in the UK. Not medical law, but actual public health law. #PHLaw

On the subj, this new article looks fascinating!

Coggon & Kamunge-Kpodo, "Legal Determinants of Health (In)justice
https://academic.oup.com/medlaw/article/30/4/705/6884116#.Y5fK2j2J1t0.twitter

legal determinants of health (in)justice

ABSTRACT. The mutual influences of social epidemiology and ideas of justice, each on the other, have been seminal in the development of public health ethics and

OUP Academic

Be wary of the #medicalization of population health, for it's e-where. Here, an excellent new paper (gently) critiquing the Lancet-O'Neill Commission's Report on Legal Determinants of Health for positioning law as primarily important 2 HEALTH CARE #PHLaw

https://academic.oup.com/medlaw/article/30/4/610/6653275?utm_source=etoc&utm_campaign=medlaw&utm_medium=email&nbd=34048321378&nbd_source=campaigner

Legal Determinants of Health

Abstract. Social determinants of health are the social and economic conditions that have a determining impact on health at an individual and population level. W

OUP Academic

Been lurking this site for some time, finally getting around to the #introduction post!

My name is Ellie 👋👋 I'm a #publichealth worker based in Nevada. I'm in an #epidemiology program mostly doing #covid #shoeleather & #genomics work.

I'm interested in #SDoH, #LegalEpi, #PHEthx, #PHLaw and am currently preparing for law school to further my studies in those areas.

Nice to 'meet' you all and I'm excited to join in on the #twittermigration fun!