Health departments must catch up to the private sector: Underpaid workforce may be less prepared for crises
Many roles in the state and local health department workforce are comparatively underpaid, and job requirements are often ...
A failing response to bird flu is hurting farmers and consumers
At a time when public health efforts should be strengthened, the Trump administration’s federal workforce cuts are ...
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What Trump’s Firing Spree Means for the Next Public Health Crisis
“When we have either a smaller public health workforce or limitations in what that public health workforce is permitted to do and what they’re permitted to communicate, then that puts more ...
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What is a public health crisis, and why do we have so many of them?
She points to the subjectivity of public health crises plainly: "Even a deadly disease is a crisis only when we treat it like one … keep in mind that heart disease has killed nearly 100 million ...
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The pandemic pushed Iowa's medical provider shortage to a 'true crisis.' Now, it's struggling to recover
The COVID-19 pandemic took a big toll on Iowa’s health care workforce. Today, the state is facing a critical shortage of ...
Trump's executive orders are exacerbating the country's mental health crisis
Certain regions of the country — like the Washington, D.C., area — are especially vulnerable to economic disruption. But ...
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CDC layoffs strike deeply at its ability to respond to the current flu, norovirus and measles outbreaks and other public health emergencies
As a teaching professor and public health educator ... and the WHO will have on their ability to coordinate effectively during times of crisis. Future health care workforce threatened The reach, ...
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Amid workforce crisis, corrections department opts to leave some jail posts unmanned before approving overtime
United Public Workers Hawaii state director Kalani Werner agrees, saying the jail’s workforce crisis is only deepening. “The manning of posts and so forth was pre-pandemic. It was always this bad.